“Out of Eden” Fall 2007 Exhibit

Fall 2007 Exhibit in Collaboration with Bakehouse Art Complex

“Our environment, although outside us, has within us not only its image, as something both actually and imaginatively reflected, but also its material energy and information channels and processes. This presence of nature in an ideal, materialised, energy and information form in man's Self is so organic that when these external natural principles disappear, man himself disappears from life. If we lose nature's image, we lose our life.” Excerpt from Man in the Realm of Nature, Dialectical Materialism, by Alexander Spirkin.

18 artists presented more than 70 pieces representing a diverse array of fine artwork in a variety of media inside the historic houses and along the pathways on the Estate grounds.

“Out of Eden” was juried by Jose W. Perez, an independent Miami-based curator who has served on various not-for-profit boards and museum executive committees. Mr. Perez recently finished a stint at Florida International University (FIU) Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum as the curator of the Cintas Fellows Collection.

The Bakehouse and the Deering Estate share a common historic past—both historic sites in Miami and both a center for the arts. The Bakehouse Art Complex buildings and location originally served as a commercial bakery in Miami-Dade County circa 1930. Today, the Bakehouse Art Complex is a not-for-profit arts and education organization, dedicated to attracting the best artists in South Florida to a workplace in a permanent facility that provides low-rent studios, exhibition galleries, meeting rooms, classrooms, and professional development opportunities. For more information, please visit them on the web at www.bakehouseartcomplex.org.