Exhibition Guides
Explore our guides, both current and past, which offer enriching insights into the diverse artworks and cultural narratives showcased at PAMM.
Exhibition Guides






The South American Dream
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The South American Dream is a painting installation by Brazilian artist, Marcela Cantuária. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and presents all newly commissioned works.






Joan Didion: What She Means
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The exhibition, Joan Didion: What She Means, attempts to relate artworks to the life and works of writer Joan Didion who is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism which is a form of journalism that uses writing techniques that were unconventional at the time.






LOVE IS CALLING
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LOVE IS CALLING by Yayoi Kusama is an installation piece from 2013. It is made of Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers, and sound. It measures roughly fourteen and a half feet by twenty-eight feet by twenty feet.






Chromosaturation
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Chromosaturation by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, is an immersive type of exhibition called an installation. These types of artworks are usually purposely installed inside a gallery, and are usually larger in size and volume than a painting or a sculpture.






Leandro Erlich: Liminal
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The guide to the exhibition Leandro Erlich: Liminal






Variations on a Theme
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The title of this exhibition, Variations on a Theme, explores a central idea in historical learning. Over time, historians see trends in the pages of history. As historians analyze these trends, some things change, while others stay the same. This idea is called “continuity and change,” and most history teachers…






Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable)
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Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable) by Helio Oiticica is a sculpture conceived in 1978 and made in 2010. It is made of stainless steel, colored metal screens, sand, gravel, bricks, and plants. It is a cube that measures roughly seven feet on all sides.






Marisol and Warhol Take New York
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This PAMM Education Audio Tour seeks to demystify the enigmatic Marisol, a Venezuelan-American woman artist absent from the center of Pop Art. Working in close collaboration between PAMM’s Curatorial, and Educational staff, this tour will attempt to answer some of the basic questions that come to mind when first encountering…






Trophallaxis
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Simone Leigh’s monumental sculptural installation at PAMM, Trophallaxis, takes its name from zoology, or the study of animals. The word itself comes from two Greek words, like many other scientific terms. Trophé means ‘nourishment,’ and allaxis means ‘exchange.’ The word describes a type of feeding behavior seen in the animal…






Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More
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Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More, on the other hand, comprises small-scale sculptures that inform Novatt’s two-dimensional works on paper and his relationship to drawing and printmaking. Displayed in the Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer Gallery, which has a window that overlooks Chaos SAS, this show captures the breadth of…






Felipe Mujica: The Swaying Motion on the Bank of the River Fall
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The Swaying Motion on the Bank of the River Falls, by Felipe Mujica in collaboration with Miccosukee artist Khadijah Cypress, is an installation of nineteen cotton fabric panels, or curtains, in the Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene and Gerald Greene Focus Gallery. There are also four larger panels hung outdoors on…






MY BODY, MY RULES
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The title wall for this exhibition was designed by Pamela Gónzalez, PAMM’s Junior Graphic Designer, and painted in collaboration with Jennifer Inacio, Associate Curator, and Maritza Lacayo, Curatorial Assistant and Publications Coordinator. It was important to the show’s premise that the hands of women who work and contribute to PAMM…






Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael
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Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, a sculpture by George Segal is part of a series of works made between 1978 and 1987 that are based on biblical stories found in the book of Genesis. The sculpture was gifted to the museum by the George and Helen Segal Foundation in 2001 and…
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