Produced By Jill Newman Productions
Museum’s Signature Miami Art Week Bash To Take Place Thursday, December 1, 2022
(MIAMI, FL — November 3, 2022) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce Meshell Ndegeocello as the headliner for PAMM Presents, produced by Jill Newman Productions, the museum’s signature Miami Art Week celebration. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the museum’s current exhibitions which include the largest presentation of Leandro Erlich’s artworks ever in the United States. Presented by Citi, Leandro Erlich: Liminal is a selection of 16 interactive works and site-specific installations that span more than two decades of the Argentine artist’s career. The invitation-only event will take place at PAMM on Thursday, December 1, 2022, from 8pm to 11pm.
Other exhibitions on view include Mariano: Variations on a Theme, the first major retrospective exhibition by the Cuban modern artist; Simone Leigh: Trophallaxis, a singular sculpture which encapsulates the artist’s emphasis on the female body—particularly the Black female body; Christo Drawings: A Gift from the Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes Collection, a presentation of stellar works on paper and collages by Christo and Jeanne-Claude detailing their major projects spanning form the late 1960s to the early 2000s; a walk-in installation by Hélio Oiticica; Marco Brambilla: Heaven’s Gate, a monumental work of digital psychedelia; and Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, an immersive environment that reimagines color as an embodied experience.
PAMM Presents draws in nearly 5,000 guests annually to celebrate the museum as a collecting institution with an ongoing commitment to diversity, presenting art from Latin America, the U.S. Latinx experience, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora.
Additional programming for Miami Art Week 2022 will be announced at a later date.
PAMM Presents is by invitation only: Open to PAMM Sustaining and above-level members and VIP passholders to Art Basel Miami Beach, Design Miami/, Art Miami/Context, NADA Miami, and UNTITLED. RSVP is required to gain entry to this event. Become a Sustaining and above-level member to receive your invitation.
If you are interested in attending and discussing coverage opportunities for PAMM Presents, please email Ali Rigo (ali@culturalcounsel.com).
PAMM Presents Visionary Sponsors: Brugal 1888, Porsche USA
Supporting Sponsors: Miami Downtown Development Authority, La Croix Sparkling Water
About Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello has survived the best and worst of what a career in music has to offer. She eschewed genre for originality, celebrity for longevity, and musical trends for musical truths. Fans have come to expect the unexpected and follow her on sojourns into soul, R&B, jazz, hip-hop, rock, all bound by the search for love, justice, respect, and resolution. Those sonic investigations have defied and redefined the expectations for women, for queer artists, and for Black music for over 30 years and she remains one of few women who write the music, sing the songs, and lead the band.
A bass player above all else, Ndegeocello brings her warm, fat, and melodic groove to everything she does. She has earned a Grammy Award, along with numerous nominations, and has played alongside the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Alanis Morrisette, James Blood Ulmer, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Tony Allen, John Medeski, Billy Preston, and Chaka Khan. As for her own bass-playing influences, she credits Sting, Jaco Pastorius, Family Man Barrett, and Stevie Wonder. Ndegeocello is always grateful for the opportunity to share the stage and believes music is a fellowship. She looks to spread that gospel with every creation and collaboration.
About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The nearly 40-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.
