Only about 30 miles north of Miami, you’ll find Fort Lauderdale’s NSU Art Museum. Always well worth the trek, it's lineup of contributions for this year's Art Week was beyond impressive, as the academic museum presented a diverse roundup of five shows. Below, we reflect on the series of innovative events as we draw the curtains on 2021.
Outterbridge Tribal Piece (1978-82), part of the Ethnic Heritage Series at NSU. PHOTO: BY JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE/COURTESY OF TILTON GALLERY
Beyond the O.K. Corral was an interactive augmented reality exhibition that allowed participants to step into photographer David Levinthal’s iconic photograph “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (2014) that was inspired by the Western movies of Levinthal’s youth in the 1950s.
Photographing the Fantastic explored photographs of magical moments, the uncanny and the wondrous, drawn from NSU Art Museum’s extensive photography collection.
Jared McGriff: Where We Are You was the first solo museum exhibition of Miami artist Jared McGriff. The exhibition contrasted paintings that suggest contemporary snapshots of the artist’s present with paintings that conjure the real and imagined experiences of his family’s migration from the rural south to the rural west of Oklahoma and California.
Jared McGriff, “To Be as a Cloud” (2021) PHOTO: BY JARED MCGRIFF
On the occasion of her 90th year, NSU celebrates the life and work of Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Margarita Cano. This exhibition was a testament to Cano’s remarkable life, a record of her transition from Cuba to America; from scientist to art services librarian; and finally, to a painter of dreams whose creativity has manifested through wondrous miniature books, votive portraits, landscapes paintings, prints and photographs.
Margarita Cano, “The Tumbler” (1997) PHOTO: BY MARGARITA CANO
Drawn primarily from NSU’s collection, The Art of Assemblage featured sculptures composed of found objects and that are distinguished by the unlikely combinations of repurposed materials that constitute their form. It also included recent acquisitions by artists John Outterbridge, Vanessa German, Pablo Cano and a collaborative work by Jorge Pardo and Jason Rhoades. 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, nsuartmuseum.org
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