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04/18/2017

Thanks to everyone who came out to IRL for our first OST Performance. More performances to follow! Boxelder Craft Beer Market Armadillo Productions Donzii Simon RafetDaniel ClappTeresa Liberatore

03/08/2017

Thanks to Miami New Times and David Bennett for the mention!
Compressor opens this Saturday March 11th with the support of Boxelder Craft Beer Market! See you all soon.

1. IRL Institute
8395 NE Second Ave., Miami; irl.institute

Tucked away near neighbors such as MADE at the Citadel and Noguchi Breton, IRL Institute (you know, like the internet acronym) is an understated space that relies on the intelligence of its programming to draw viewers. Politically driven and informed by “a desire to fill a niche between the institution, the commercial, and the alternative,” the space is a happy medium between these sometimes dissonant extremes of the art world.

IRL’s next opening is Juan Gonzalez’s Compressor, a sound art installation that seeks to “reinterpret 20th-century futurism and the radical affinities of the Dada movement.” The show’s title is a reference to the audio processing effect that narrows the sonic spectrum; Gonzalez posits “the current cultural fiber of living in a postindustrial society has fundamentally primed our ears to the sounds generated by modern technology.”

When Wynwood's rising property values began forcing gallerists out of the neighborhood several years ago, some art spaces fled west to Allapattah. Others moved to Broward or even back to Miami Beach. But the majority of galleries relocated to Little Haiti. Today the neighborhood boasts a thriving ar...

01/24/2017

Our current exhibition Natural Curiosity: An Intimate History was selected as one of the top 5 critic's choice exhibitions in Miami right now.

More info below:

Re-relating to the Environment

Juxtaposing and interlacing their personal memories, artists Jose L. Garcia and German Ruiz create portraits and landscapes of past experiences for the dual exhibition Then & There on view at FIU’s urban studios. Similarly focused on individual experience, Judy Cotton’s Natural Curiosity: An Intimate History investigates the complex and fraught relationship between humans and the environment in her ongoing series of palm tree drawings and resin cast found objects on view at IRL. From the natural to Unnatural Life Elizabeth Condon’s exhibition of new paintings uses deceptively decorative applications to explore the feminine within the male dominated history of abstract painting. This exhibition opens Emerson Dorsch’s much awaited new gallery location. Casting its eye on fashion, Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity, explores how black dandies have resisted stereotype and repositioned black male identity by purposefully confusing conventions of fashion and creating unique style. Guest curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis, and on view at the Lowe Art Museum, the exhibition includes both historical and contemporary images. As February questions what place there is for environmental concern, female and black identities in our future, PAMM offers a playful and poignant reprieve in Lawrence Weiner’s Out of Sight text work, a generic multilingual interactive hopscotch on the museum’s floor.

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Looking Back for Our Future. Reviving broken objects underpins the Japanese Kintsuji technique adopted by Mexico-born artist Omar Barquet to interweave poetry and Buddhism with his own memories of Caribbean storms. The result is Past Words—an exhibition of lyrical objects patchworked by multiple inf...