Exhibits at Deering Estate
WINTER FINE ART EXHIBIT & THE CERAMIC LEAGUE OF MIAMI
Exhibit Opening: Wednesday, December 7th; 7 pm - 9 pm. The exhibit opening is free & open to the public.
Exhibit on display through January 23rd; Daily, 10 am - 4 pm. Free with Estate admission.
Surface, featuring Salon Miami Artists
Smaller works that examine boundaries and interpretations of surface through abstraction, close examination, and alteration. Featuring Salon Miami artists Regina Jestrow and Carrie Sieh.
Regina Jestrow: Originally from Queens, New York, Regina Jestrow graduated from High School of Art & Design, and attended Fashion Institute of Technology. Her mother, Karen, is an avid seamstress, and taught Regina multiple forms of needle work. Regina moved to Miami in 1999, and in 2001 she started quilting. She took various classes and workshops in Miami, and started showing her work at galleries in 2007. Regina was a resident artist at The Bakehouse Art Complex from 2009-2011, and recently received the opportunity to have a studio space at the ArtCenter/South Florida. Statement One of the common denominators across all of my works is that all are pattern driven. To quilt is to stitch, sew, cover, and design with one’s own two hands. My work translates the movement of color and design, combining the ideas, both from quilting and from nature. The installation pieces are for people to immerse themselves, whether walking under, through or into the art. Inspiration comes from geometric shapes and structures, which the world around me creates leaving the individual to interpret.
Carrie Sieh: Carrie Sieh is a mixed-media artist whose work concerns intersections of ideas about gender and sexuality, technology, and the natural world. Combining culturally significant materials and techniques, her work employs contrasts in both concept and execution. She received her BA in Art, with a double focus on painting and photography, from University of California at Santa Cruz. She earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University in California, which often informs the theme of technology present in her work. Born in California, she now lives and works in Miami. She is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami.
Carsten Meier "Liminal Spaces"
About the artist: An Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Miami, German-born photographer Carsten Meier travels the globe in search of the natural and the manmade, the quiet and the stunning. His photography is stark, while his images are lush, and his large prints lure you in close to study and absorb the details.
Artist: Carsten Meier
Show Title: Liminal Spaces
Image: Carsten Meier, Deering #1, Photograph on canvas, 20" x 24", 2011
Statement: " (...) Wilderness was the basic ingredient of American civilization. From the raw materials of the physical wilderness Americans built a civilization; with the idea or symbol of wilderness they sought to give that civilization identity and meaning."
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Description of items: Photographs on Canvas / images from the Deering Estate at Cutler
20" x 24" Canvas wraps 6-10 pieces
Ceramic League of Miami
The Deering Estate at Cutler welcomes artists from the Ceramic League of Miami for their annual group exhibition and sale at the Deering Estate at Cutler. The Ceramic League of Miami was founded in 1950 with the purpose of educating members and the general public in all aspects of ceramics.
DEERING HOLIDAY WONDERLAND
December 1 - 31; Daily, 10 am - 4 pm; Free with Estate admission.
Throughout December, visitors can tour the elegant and historic houses as they come alive with holiday accents and decorations created by the local garden clubs and community organizations.