Local Artist Forum is a free series presented by Pérez Art Museum Miami in fall 2019, offered as an extension of the ongoing Local Views tours to provide additional resources and conversations relevant to working local artists in Miami. Join us to continue the conversation this evening around communicating your practice with Miami-based experts on developing a digital presence and communicating for the art world. Working artists and curators Aldeide Delgado, GeoVanna Gonzalez, and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova will share their experience, advice, and tips, followed by discussion and brainstorming with all artists present.
GeoVanna Gonzalez is a Miami/Berlin-based artist. GeoVanna was born and raised in Los Angeles California where she received her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design.
GeoVanna experiments with materials to understand the notion of tactility, by transforming one material to look like another. The desire to transform materials is influenced by both organic and technological environments and its relationship to our shifting notions of gender and identity. She constructs and combines sculptures and installations, and uses video and photography to recontextualize, obscure and interfere with how digital platforms curate and dictate the way we experience various and multiplying realities.
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova was born in 1973 in Havana, Cuba and currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. He is currently one of the directors of Dimensions Variable (DV) in Miami, FL.
Select exhibitions include Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; The Center for Architecture and Design, Miami, FL; Factoria Habana, Havana, Cuba; Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida; David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL; Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Selected collections include Sayago & Pardon Collection, San Diego, CA; Alfredo Hertzog Da Silva, Sao Palo, Brazil; Cintas Foundation Collection, Miami, FL; The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; Capri Palace, Capri, Italy; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Miami, FL; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL. Select coverage of Rodriguez-Casanova’s projects have been in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, Art Nexus, Sculpture Magazine, The Miami Rail, Temporary Art Review, ArtSlant, Aesthetica Magazine, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, PBS News Hour and The Miami New Times.
Rodriguez-Casanova recently completed a site-specific commission for Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami, FL. in the fall of 2016.
