NEWS
Headed to Japan for @oolitearts!
Chance Encounters || Under The Sun
July 2023
Stoked to be a part of exhibition featuring prints that are part of a portfolio exchange and organized in partnership with IS projects.
THE ELLIES Teacher Travel Grant - Japan Trip @oolitearts #The Ellies!
Summer 2023
BIG THANK YOU to The Ellies Teacher Travel Grant for providing me with funds for travel to enrich my classroom & curriculum.
Luminous: The Art of Neon
February 9th - May 21st, 2023
Luminous: The Art of Neon, an exhibition inspired by the life and work of Long Island City local neon artist, Gerry Rose.
The exhibition showcases the vibrant and dynamic world of neon art, featuring works that explore the medium's unique ability to capture and transmit light!
Ellies Creator Winner
2021
I’m excited to announce that I received an award from #TheEllies! Thank you @oolitearts for supporting my work and investing in my project Neon Napkin Notes. I can’t wait to share the progress of my project with everyone.
Congratulations to all my fellow winners as well! Check us all out at www.theEllies.org
Into The Fold | Collaborative Book Arts In South Florida
July - August 2021
Into The Fold highlights a series of eleven artist books and the artists who made them. Each book is the result of a collaboration between the artist and printmaking and book arts studio, IS Projects, made possible through their artist book publishing program, Existent Books.
BookBound:
The Art of Books and Printmaking
June 11th - August 21st, 2022
My book has been included in the BookBound: The Art of Books and Printmaking show at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood curated by Meaghan Kent. It was selected as a part of the Participating Organizations via IS Projects.
Hope you get a chance to stop by!!!
7 year Anniversary of my first Showcase
Warp and Weft
July - September 2021
Presented by The Frank in the City of Pembroke Pines, The Exhibit Warp and Weft features various Fiber artists on the main floor as well as FAMA [Fiber Artists Miami Association] members in the upstairs area.
Submersible Thoughts
February 2021 - April 2021
Celebrating the 7-year anniversary of my first exhibition with the Art Center of South Florida, things have come full circle with the opportunity to exhibit once more in the same space with Oolite Arts.
Now Be Here
October 2020
Conceived in 2016, Now Be Here exists to give visibility to woman-identifying and non-binary artists, bringing equity to the art world. This directory serves as a conduit between you and these artists, myself included! Browse and find new artists and join in this epic project.
Headed to Japan for @oolitearts!
New Media Festival!
PLAY ME
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Presented by Mitte Projects & Wynwood Arts 29, Play Me is an exhibit featuring over 42 local South Florida artists merging the usual viewing experience with sound. Each room is curated to accompany a specific song to various media seamlessly.
It will be open for Basel, stop by if you can:
95 NW 29th Street. Miami, FL. 33127
I'm a Recipient of THE ELLIES Teacher Travel Grant! - Going to Japan for @oolitearts #The Ellies!
October 23, 2019
Still in disbelief to have won this great educational international travel opportunity.
The Ellies Teacher Travel Grants will provide five K-12 teachers with funds for travel that will ultimately enrich their classroom curriculum. By encouraging teachers to explore and share art experiences with their students, these grants will help create the audiences that our museums and arts organizations need to thrive.
Identity the New Frontier
October 19, 2019
This exhibit and activation will take place at The Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti!
The Miami New Media Festival promotes art through the exploration of new technologies and interactive narratives, such as video art, animation, digital art, and interactive mapping. The festival also presents exhibitions in cities in Latin America and Spain.
Hope that you can make it!!!
How does one as a creator see their space? Dive in and come find out!
Locals only show that involves collaboration between artists... anything goes!
Fall 2019 - 2020 Artist Access (ART) Grants Program Awardee
October 2019
Grateful to have been selected as one of the artists to be granted an Artist Access ART Grant!
Funded by Miami-Dade County and offered in partnership with FUNDarte, the Artist Access Grant Program is designed to assist practicing, professional artists in any medium or discipline residing in Miami-Dade County pursue and secure artistic professional development and educational opportunities.
Artists Draw Their Studios
September 14, 2019 - through
January 5, 2020
What is a workplace like when the conventional definitions of work and play don’t apply? Artists Draw Their Studios is an opportunity for the public to appreciate the intimate and eccentric relationships artists have with their own workplaces.
Invited by artist and guest curator Michelle Weinberg, more than 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.
COLLABO 6 ALL IN!
September 2019
Established in 2005, the “COLLABO” is a Miami-based, artist-organized exhibition founded by artists Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges and continued by Agustina Woodgate, Justin H Long and others. Always taking place at different venues throughout the city, COLLABO has been hosted at loaned vacant warehouses and alternative art spaces including Bas Fisher Invitational, Frederic Snitzer Gallery and Bakehouse Art Complex. This year’s space is generously provided by MANA Contemporary. It's time again, rising from the ashes the COLLABO is back. Following the tradition held five times before, COLLABO 6 ALL IN! engages the Miami Art community to come together, and as before, the only rule is that artists must collaborate to create a new artwork in any media.
Miami Herald Article: LINK HERE
Local Stories Article.
The body of water surrounding our city, influences us all collectively in diverse ways.
TEXT at Ann Street Gallery
August 24 - October 19, 2019
As a vehicle for artistic expression, the use of text provides artists with the perfect platform for creating a dialogue with their viewers. Words are powerful tools. They influence the way people think and react; they reflect one's thoughts and effect behaviors; they also form a system of conventionalized symbols used for communicating, language. This exhibit features eighteen artists myself included.
The TEXT exhibit was curated by Virginia Walsh in conjunction with the Safe Harbors Newburgh Literary Festival.
Voyage MIA
July 2019
If you'd like a little more insight on my journey, it's now available in my own words via VoyageMIA. Funny enough, after two years of crossing emails, this opportunity has finally reached fruition.
Thank you to Gail Williams for referring me in 2017, Lujan Candria for referring me in 2018, and Lissette Schaeffler for referring me in 2019.
Lastly a big thank you to VoyagMIA for highlighting locals and communities in this beautiful city we call home.
VoyageMIA Article: LINK HERE
131 Projects presents: The Bicayne Bay Show at the Allapattah Building
May 31st, 2019
Dating back millennia, Biscayne Bay was home to an indigenous society that mastered their natural surroundings. Archeological findings confirmed that the Tequesta people lived in a manner fully symbiotic with this ecosystem.
Many artists residing in Greater Miami are connected to the unique nature of this region. Both physically and culturally, this historically rich environment has influenced the practice of each artist that has chosen to participate in this group exhibition. In a variety of modalities, these creators share perspectives immersed in expressions of Biscayne Bay’s immutable presence.
Triangle Miami Article: LINK HERE
Exhibit at Mana 777 Miami and Podcast alongside BABA Collective and Laura Marsh and Tamara Despujols.
Locals only show taking place before Miami Art Basel.
FREE!
November 23rd - December 9, 2018
This December Brickell City Centre (BCC), Miami’s will host FREE!, an alternative, non-commercial contemporary art fair made possible by Swire Properties Inc.
FREE! will present an intersectional group of artists creating site-specific interventions in a non-traditional venue.
I'll be on view at the “Locals Only Preview” on Black Friday, offering the community a first look at large-scale works. My piece Mirror Phase is on the reverse side of the bridge. It's a 40-foot long sculptural haiku made from a mirror that reflects the external environment, piquing the interest of passersby and engaging public spatial awareness.
Culture Cast exhibit at Mana Miami
December 2018
Culture Cast is a group exhibition featureing Tamara Despujols, Laura Marsh, Maria Theresa Barbist, and myself. Hailing from four different backgrounds, places, training, and media, this all female show incorporates a reversal of the gaze and opens up a cultural conversation in this project space.
The space is going to be further activated by having five minute open door conversations with the visitors who stop by at the opening.
Prasel Basel, in Wynwood, FL
November 30th, 2018
Before the seasonal art birds descend on Miami, i'm looking forward to being a part of a locals only show spearheaded by Fallen Rose and Sharif Slimting. The Prasel Basel participating artists are: Agent 7, Atomik, Beatriz Chachamovits, Erwin Gerogi & Liz Tokatlilar, Fallen Rose, Karim Teran, Luna Palazzolo, Muta, Naps, Oliver Sanchez, Renda Writer, Sharif Slimting, Tesoro Carolina, and myself.
Stop by if you are in the area the show runs from 6-11 @ 164 NW 20th St 33127
Music by Carlitos Martinez and Nii Tei
Artist Book @Existent Books
Solo exhibit @ IS Projects
Pushing The Pull presented by SPF South Florida at the FATVillage Projects
November 10 - December 11, 2018
SPF South Florida presents Pushing the Pull, an exhibition featuring the work of thirty artists whose artistic practice pushes the boundaries of printmaking.
Through a series of print-driven works, Pushing the Pull celebrates both the tradition of printmaking and its contemporary applications by showcasing its diversity in execution and evolving potential.
TEXTual [My First Artist Book!] is
May 2018- PRESENT
TEXTual is the sixth installment of the Existent Books publishing program and was produced at IS Projects during the Spring of 2018 and released at the opening of Text(ured), my gallery solo show at IS Projects. This book combines screenprinting, digital printing, and letterpress printing with a die-cut voer. All screenprinting was done by hand in the studio by Ingrid Schindall and all letterpress printing and die-cutting was done on the Vandercook SP15.
Tetxure(d) at IS Projects
May - June 2018
Texture(d) is a solo exhibition of tactile prints which reverse the technological disconnect of flat, digitally printed matter found on screens and examines printmaking beyond the two dimensional realm. Completed during a week-long artist residency, the goal of this body of work was to increase the viewer's desire to engage with text through physical connection and touch. Texture(d) honed in on the materials that remain invisible and instead makes the overlooked tools in printmaking the prime focus.
"Imperial State of Mind" prints are NOW AVAILABLE for Purchase!
April 2018- PRESENT
Selected as the first artist to joint the La Bodega Gallery Shop, I am excited to unveil a print that was initially imagined back during my NYC stomping ground days. Released in unison with the (con)text exhibit, this print can now be yours for purchase onsite or if you order it online. Big thank you to Miguel Ayuso and Johnny Thornton for this chance.
La Bodega Gallery Shop
(con)text at La Bodega Gallery
April 6th - May 1st 2018
(con)text is a group exhibition curated by Karen Mainenti and Johnny Thornton, featuring five artists who incorporate text in their art practices in dynamic ways. The artworks selected for this exhibition use language as a device to explore social and political issues within their work. Each artist utilizes text in distinctive ways—employing different mediums, techniques and aesthetic strategies—to create a visual language reflective of their respective subject matters.
Processed Prose, at the Bakehouse Art Complex
March 20th - April 30th 2018
Processed Prose celebrates Miami’s month-long poetry festival O, Miami and was conceived as an homage to National Poetry Month, celebrated every April since 1996. Despite being its source of inspiration, however, the written word is rarely at the forefront of the artworks featured in this exhibition: words are burned, extracted, implied, indecipherable, or simply not there, yet their ghostly presence is heavily felt.
TBD Independent Projects presents Bitches, Witches, & Shots
DECEMBER 6 - 10 2017
Happy to be a part of this ALL FEMALE show titled "Bitches, Witches & Shots". The
TBD Independent Project brings together a group of women artists that work on the wide notion of censorship in regards to the body, words, thoughts, sexuality, intellect, personality and gender issues.
Located at PINTA in MANA
BOOTH G07 - Next to the VIP Lounge
SCOPIC CIPHERS, at the Williams McCall Gallery in Coconut Grove
DECEMBER 2017 - JANUARY 2018
"Scopic Ciphers" is a solo exhibition presented by the Williams McCall Gallery of my most current body of work that explores the multiplicity of meanings in accordance to sociopolitical power dynamics and national identity.
Growing Pebbles at Sleep Center New York in NYC, NY
March 2018
In celebration of the amazing teaching career by Don Porcaro, his students will be showing artwork alongside some of his new pieces at Sleep Center NY, to give thanks, and demonstrate what we've been up to post Parsons. If you are in NY stop by and check it out!
Opening on March 9th- March 30th
9 Monroe Street, Basement, NY, NY 10002
PRESENTED BY WILLIAMS MCCALL GALLERY IN COCONUT GROVE
PRESENTED BY TBD PROJECT
#RAINTERTAINMENT presented by ACSF and Lincoln Road
MAY - JULY 2017
#RAINTERTAINMENT article written by RYAN PFEFFER for Time Out Miami titled "Next time it rains on Lincoln Road, look down".
Article link here!
https://www.timeout.com/miami/blog/next-time-it-rains-on-lincoln-road-look-down-052517
#RAINTERTAINMENT presented by ACSF and Lincoln Road
MAY - JULY 2017
#RAINTERTAINMENT article written by JOSH BAUMGARD for Curbed Miami titled "Miami Beach’s Raining Poetry Activation unveiled on Lincoln Road".
Check out the link below!
https://miami.curbed.com/2017/5/25/15691168/miami-beach-lincoln-road-raining-poetry-lebo
Hand Made presented by La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
DECEMBER 2017
I am happy to share that I am participating in "Hand Made" this winter season at La Bodega Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. This event will assemble a dynamic group of 25+ artists from the New York area and beyond.
Opening on December 9th in South Park Slope!!!! Gallery hours are NOON-8pm.
Brooklyn, NYC
PRESENTED BY LINCOLN ROAD AND ARTCENTER SOUTH
PRESENTED BY LINCOLN ROAD AND ARTCENTER SOUTH
Peeling Teeth with SIDEPIECE SPACE
APRIL 1st- JUNE 2017
I'm currently showing a new artwork with SidePiece Space in Little Haiti titled "Peeling Teeth". If you are in the vicinity, stop by no matter the hour and peek in to see it.
NOTE: It's en plein air.
#RAINTERTAINMENT presented by ACSF and Lincoln Road
MAY - JULY 2017
I am pleased to announce that I am collaborating with the talented AMLgMATD, on a few pieces and that will be on view alongside artwork by LEBO, this Summer on Lincoln Road!
#RAINTERTAINMENT presented by ACSF and Lincoln Road
MAY - JULY 2017
#RAINTERTAINMENT is an ongoing collaborative installation by AMLgMATD, LEBO, & myself Elysa D. Batista, and shall be on display during the Summer of 2017 on Lincoln Road. Don't stay indoors when it rains, as you can only see the artwork when it's wet!!!
Presented by LincolnRoad and ArtCenterSouthFlorida
PRESENTED BY LINCOLN ROAD AND ARTCENTER SOUTH
IMAGE BY MONICA MCGIVERN
At The Laundromat Art Space
IMAGE BY JASON APONTE
Showcase with ACSF
WORDPLAY at Laundromat Art Space
APRIL 8th - APRIL 29th 2017
I will be participating in a group show titled "Word Play" alongside artists JC Rodriguez and Ronald Sanchez during National Poetry Month. If you are in the Little Haiti area make sure to stop by.
ATRIUM at Bakehouse Art Complex
APRIL 1st - APRIL 30th 2017
Excited to take part in a group show in the Atrium at the Bakehouse Art Complex during National Poetry Month. If you are in the Wynwood Arts District, come on out!
Showcase with ACSF
PRESENT - APRIL 10th 2017
Showcasing artwork with the Art Center South Florida during National Poetry Month. If you are in the Miami Beach area, drive, bike, skate, or walk by the space! NOTE: It reflects the best at night.