Current Exhibition: “HERE NOW: Resident Artist Showcase” works by James Brazil Studio. Ivan Castillo, John La Huis, Raul Perdomo, Alette Simmons-Jiménez.
James Brazil: The studio’s founder James Brazil comes from a design to production background immersed in fabrication, materials and making. Actively publishing and presenting research in parallel with unsolicited PAR (Participatory Action Research) actions and activities with citizen stakeholders, both serve as an integral part of project development. Design-research is the pragmatic backbone of the studio, positioning community participation within urban research, coalescing projects to make positive social impacts. Where these actions and the client’s imagination find synthesis, is the basis of a creative working partnership that inspires innovation and ingenuity in our projects. https://studiojamesbrazil.com
Ivan Castillo: Castillo is an internationally exhibiting artist and designer. He studied Fine Arts at the Central University of Venezuela, Visual Communications at the Neumann School of Design in Caracas, and Engraving and New Media at the Simon Rodriguez University. He has worked in the field of graphic design for 25 years while developing his own language in the fields of sculpture and three-dimensional design. Today he is based in Miami working with KZarchitecture firm where he develops construction systems that allow him to manufacture art and architectural design using digital tools and different materials. https://ivancastillo.art/
John La Huis: John La Huis is an artist based in Miami. Painting is his predominate practice. He has exhibited both locally and globally, in Boca Raton, Miami, Atlanta, Georgia, and Athens, Greece, Rome, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain, among others. The paintings of this Miami native are dynamic enough to seem channeled by multiple artists from various dimensions. Whether depicting bits of nature, iconic human figures, or scenes from the day-to-day around him—presented as flatworks or dreamily embedded onto the sides of cubes—they are all richly abstracted, representing both a distance from and close relationship to reality. They are as important for what they are missing as for what they contain—in their fragmented restraint, they become both sculptural and referential of something larger. Paintings of flora appear almost collaged; a boat on a heavy, navy-blue background exists only by the thread of a quick line; a cowboy emerges from and disappears into a grey backdrop, powder-blue dots that may or may not have anything to do with his form creating an accompanying pattern. The artist is represented by macfineart.com
Raul Perdomo: Through Perdomo’s painting practice he creates an imagined language, charting the interrelated consequences between structured orders and chance randomness. The artist was born in 1966 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is now based in Miami, Florida. He has presented solo shows: ‘THE Multiverse Works’, at Farside Gallery, Miami; ‘New Works on Paper, Ingall’s Gallery, Miami; ‘RETCH’ Miami Lights Project, Miami; ‘Recent Works’ Ace, NYC; ‘New Drawings’ The 800 Space, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach. He has appeared in publications such as: ‘Future Science, Essays from the cutting edge’; “Puertas A La Literatura’; ‘New American Paintings No.88’; and ‘Ways of Worldmaking’ Museum catalog Miami-Dade College. The artist received a BFA in Painting from Florida State University with a minor in a minor in Art History and Printmaking. raulperdomo.com
Alette Simmons-Jiménez: With a BFA from Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (1975) the artist began her studio practice in the Dominican Republic and is now based in Miami, Florida. She has exhibited extensively in museums, galleries, and media festivals internationally and has collaborated with designers and architects to install large-scale commissions in public and private spaces. Selected solo exhibits include Oolite Walgreen Windows Project (2024), MIAirport Art in Public places Moving image Gallery (2023), Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach (2022); Miami Design District, Space S|223 (2020); Palm Beach ICA Media Room, curator Michael Rush (2001), and Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo (1997). Simmons-Jiménez is a recipient of a several prestigious local and international awards for her work in multiple media. She has also been granted residencies at MASS MoCA (2024), Résidence D’Artiste Ifitry, Essaouira, Morocco (2019), and at Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2017). The artist’s practice is also dedicating to community building. Currently she hosts and produces Art & Company Podcast, (2018 – present) for an international audience, documenting the South Florida art scene. www.alettesimmonsjimenez.com
