Members can join us for a morning of inspiration and exploration as they experience our new summer exhibitions! Enjoy a light breakfast, followed by curator-led tours that give unique insight into the artistic vision behind each piece. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the exhibitions through the perspectives of PAMM Chief Curator Gilbert Vicario and PAMM Associate Curator Maritza Lacayo.
Schedule
9am Light breakfast
10–10:45am Tour of Xican-a.o.x. Body with Chief Curator Gilbert Vicario
11–11:45am Tour of Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides with Associate Curator Maritza Lacayo
About Xican-a.o.x. Body
Including more than 150 works by 70 artists and collectives, the exhibition ranges in diverse media from painting, photography, works on paper, sculpture, and moving images. Xican-a.o.x. Body foregrounds the body as a site to explore political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of affectivity and community as linked to Chicano experiences. The exhibition serves as the first group exhibition to celebrate Xicanx artists working conceptually, experimentally, and or with a performative focus. The term, Xicanx, is inclusive of the Indigenous and colonized people of Mexican descent as well as the people who may originate from Central and South American nations.
About Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides
Calida Rawles envisions water as a space for Black healing and reimagines the African American community beyond the stories we already know as a part of the United States’s collective history. Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction, and the cultural and historical symbolisms of water, Rawles creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright and mysterious bodies of water. The water, itself a sort of character within the paintings, functions as an element that signifies both physical and spiritual healing, as well as historical trauma and racial exclusion. For her first museum solo presentation, Rawles creates a bridge between her signature style and a story within Miami’s history that is often ignored and obscured.
