Museums, Miami
Group Exhibition
2022-23 Exhibitions
Rubell Museum2022 Artist-in-Residence: Alexandre Diop Exhibitions by: Patricia Ayres Doron Langberg Jared McGriff Jo Messer Clayton Schiff Tesfaye Urgessa — Alexandre Diop: 2022 Artist-in-Residence Based in Vienna, Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop (b. 1995, Paris) uses discarded objects to create work that raises questions pertaining to sociopolitical, cultural and gender issues. Drawing inspiration from his European and African roots, he explores the legacies of colonialism and diaspora while tackling universal themes of ancestry, suffering, and historical violence. For his exhibition at the Rubell Museum, Diop presents a selection of works created over the course of his 3-month residency. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by scholar Mara Niang and a conversation between Diop and Hans Ulrich Obrist, alongside a selection of color photographs. “In recent years, the Museum has continued to expand its programming to share both new acquisitions and highlights from the collection, as well as works developed by its artists-in-residence, a position most recently held by Alexandre Diop. This year’s presentations represent a continuation of our mission to spotlight a diverse mix of contemporary artists while encouraging public dialogue,” said Jason Rubell. “Works on view include both significant pieces by artists our family has engaged with over decades, as well as exciting work by artists we have recently interacted with during studio visits, and from whom we have commissioned bodies of work.” — Patricia Ayres Patricia Ayres’ practice relates to stories of isolation, separation, and confinement. Analyzing the mechanisms of physical and psychological control, Ayres creates anthropomorphic, totemic sculptures that are wrapped with strips of elastic, liquid latex, padding, and other materials, and incorporate techniques that draw on the artist’s background in fashion design. Patricia Ayres (b. 1975, New York, lives and works in New York) — Doron Langberg Representing a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg creates luminous, vibrant, and often large-scale works that hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends, and lovers, Langberg’s paintings celebrate the physicality of touch—in subject matter and process—a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Israel, lives and works in New York) — Jared McGriff The paintings of Miami-based Jared McGriff blend together the artist’s present with real or imagined glimpses into his family history. Through dream-like depictions, McGriff captures fragmented, distorted memories of previous generation’s migration from the rural south, reflecting on how the past continues to shape contemporary identity and experience. Jared McGriff (b. 1977, Los Angeles, lives and works in Miami) — Jo Messer Jo Messer’s paintings push the tradition of classic nude portraiture to explore the many potentials of the genre, from the erotic to the whimsical. Her chromatic, almost abstract figures of women extend beyond the borders of the canvas, offering new perspectives on sexuality and the human body. Jo Messer (b. 1991, Los Angeles, lives and works in New York) — Clayton Schiff Clayton Schiff gathers impressions of an unconscious that distorts, displaces, enlarges, and compresses experiences accumulated while awake. His haunting iconography simultaneously evokes alienation with fantastical creatures and strange landscapes that have a subtlety and lightness that is playful and even humorous. Clayton Schiff (b. 1987, New York, lives and works in New York) — Tesfaye Urgessa In Tesfaye Urgessa's work, there is a mute reciprocity between the observer and the observed that shifts the power dynamics and the notion of agency and race. Drawing on his childhood memories of Ethiopia, each composition is derived from the depths of Urgessa’s subconscious, where disjointed images of emigration transcend to the outside world and onto the canvas. Tesfaye Urgessa (b. 1983, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, lives and works in Nürtingen, Germany)