Opening Reception | 1/20/24 | 6-9pm
On View | 1/20-27/24 | Club Gallery | 8300 NE 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33133
On View | 1/20-27/24 | Club Gallery | 8300 NE 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33133
South Florida native Mindy Shrago synthesizes and combines aspects of painting and sculpture in her thoughtful and diverse body of ceramic work which will be on view, along with new and recent pieces, in a career-spanning exhibition, opening January 20th, 2024 at Club Gallery Miami.
Throughout Shrago’s oeuvre, she has playfully questioned and redefined the boundaries of what is traditionally two and three dimensional. By juxtaposing flat, underglaze-painted subjects and landscapes with sculptural relief and fully three-dimensional forms, a visual metamorphosis occurs and the representational is released from the two-dimensional picture plane. This redefinition of space within her work creates a sense of freedom and an escape into utopian landscapes created with inspiration drawn from her love of the surrounding tropical South Floridian environment along with the colors and aesthetics of vintage Florida kitsch. Shrago has not just been creating pieces that celebrate nature, but has always made sure to leave space within her work to contemplate our complex relationship with it, both positive and negative. “My landscapes remind us that we are merely on a point or place along the way toward something we can only dream of - harmony and balance with nature” she says of her series Playing with the Environment which presents detailed representations of local flora and fauna on separating sculptural puzzle pieces and blocks slowly falling away from one another as if to suggest our ecological systems may be coming apart as well.
Before co-founding the cutting-edge Young At Art Museum (YAA), Shrago received her BA in ceramics from the University of South Florida and was represented by the renowned Miami-based Gloria Luria Gallery.
Throughout Shrago’s oeuvre, she has playfully questioned and redefined the boundaries of what is traditionally two and three dimensional. By juxtaposing flat, underglaze-painted subjects and landscapes with sculptural relief and fully three-dimensional forms, a visual metamorphosis occurs and the representational is released from the two-dimensional picture plane. This redefinition of space within her work creates a sense of freedom and an escape into utopian landscapes created with inspiration drawn from her love of the surrounding tropical South Floridian environment along with the colors and aesthetics of vintage Florida kitsch. Shrago has not just been creating pieces that celebrate nature, but has always made sure to leave space within her work to contemplate our complex relationship with it, both positive and negative. “My landscapes remind us that we are merely on a point or place along the way toward something we can only dream of - harmony and balance with nature” she says of her series Playing with the Environment which presents detailed representations of local flora and fauna on separating sculptural puzzle pieces and blocks slowly falling away from one another as if to suggest our ecological systems may be coming apart as well.
Before co-founding the cutting-edge Young At Art Museum (YAA), Shrago received her BA in ceramics from the University of South Florida and was represented by the renowned Miami-based Gloria Luria Gallery.