Aesthetics & Values 2012

Aesthetics&Values AN EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY THE HONORS COLLEGE AT FIU T h e

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Open to all FIU students and funded by CSO

Front Cover: Kuhl and Leyton. New Hope Plantation, 2010. Acrylic tape, book tape on paper. 5’ x 13’ 4”. Courtesy of Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art. Back Cover: Jiae Hwang. Floating World (Federal Reserve), 2011. Charcoal and graphite on paper. 51” x 122”. Courtesy of the artist.

Catalog designed by Aileen Solá-Trautmann

dean’s words

Welcome to the Seventh Annual Aesthetics & Values Art Exhibition!

Each year, this innovative, student-produced event continues to grow in size, prestige, and importance.

From a small course that had students work with local artists and mount some of their work in the gallery of the library, the project has now expanded in every direction. For the third year, the Exhibition will be held at the wonderful Frost Art Museum at FIU, where it has achieved true distinction as an important exhibition in its own right. It has grown far beyond a simple student project. Last year, the Exhibition drew the highest number of visitors of any event at the Frost, and this year it should be even better attended.

Another major success of A&V has been the burgeoning community interaction that has led to a number of internships for our students at important venues such as the Miami-Dade Division of Cultural Affairs and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Students have also been serving as volunteers at the Margulies Collection, the PULSE Art Fair, and the Bass Museum of Art. These opportunities are all the more enriching because the majority of students are not majoring in art-related fields.

A&V students have also taken key steps toward building their own community. The class is now registered as a campus student organization (a key funding source). Even more impressive is the students’ desire to remain a community after finishing the class – there is now an A&V Alumni Association with an active board, through which veterans of the Exhibition can continue to build relationships with each other, Professor John Bailly, and the Honors College.

As is obvious, the A&V experience is, for students, eye-opening and even life-changing. For the university, it is a source of great pride and a key link to Miami’s cultural community. For the Honors College, it is a continuous fountain of creative pedagogy and an enduring example of the major value-plus we offer FIU’s best and brightest.

Lesley A. Northup Dean, The Honors College at Florida International University

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Carol Damian Director and Chief Curator The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum

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director’s words

The exhibition, curated entirely by the students in the Aesthetics and Values Class of the Honors College is one of our most popular events, and one of the most successful class projects, at Florida International University. The perspective, and choices, of students (many of them not art students) as they explore the local art scene and create an exhibition of great originality bring a fresh approach to installing the spaces at the Museum. As in previous years, the artists represent some of the most acclaimed of our South Florida community, with national reputations and stellar exhibition records. Each artist or pair of artists uses a diversity of media to express the most contemporary of artistic concepts. It is always a surprise to see which work will appear in the space, the choice of the artists and students together, who are given relatively free reign over the area and transform it in every direction. The students have produced every part of the exhibition – from the curatorial vision, choice of artists, installation design, and catalog to the invitations. For many months they have been engaged in the process, immersing themselves in a world of art and artists that is new to most of them, and they have done it with wonderful enthusiasm and attention to detail. We congratulate the students and the artists and welcome them to the Frost Art Museum.

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student-curators’ words

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” —Picasso Pablo Picasso did a vast number of things in his infamous and well-documented life. Yet to the best of our knowledge, he never had to organize, fund, and curate an entire art show in less than a year without ever being paid for doing it. If he had, Picasso might have reconsidered his ambition to tackle things significantly out of his depth.

Of our forty student curators, we have exactly one Fine Art major and one Art History major. The rest of us plan to be scientists, businessmen, mathematicians, doctors, and philosophers. Some of us frequent museums at our leisure. Others know art from the tags along the highway. But every one of us, for some absolutely insane reason, convinced ourselves that we could do this – we could curate an art show in two semesters, with just our foundations in stubbornness and sheer gusto moving us forward.

And wouldn’t you know it, we did. From the deep end and all!

What you see before you as the Aesthetics & Values 2012 Exhibition is the culmination of a year’s worth of perseverance and teamwork between students and artists, and among students themselves. We have taken a six-year tradition and made a professional, contemporary art exhibit different from any previous incarnation.

In making this a reality, we thank the Honors College, the Frost Art Museum, CSO, ARC, our generous sponsors, and the FIU student body. Without you, all our labors would have been in vain.

The most rewarding thing about being out of your depth? You will never forget how to swim afterwards.

We hope you enjoy.

-Aesthetics & Values Class of 2012

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Robert Chambers 8

Luis Garcia-Nerey 10

Jiae Hwang 12

Kuhl & Leyton 14

Ed Levine 16

Jillian Mayer 18

Gean Moreno 20

Gavin Perry 22

Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt - R & R Studios 24

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M a y a n i n C a s t r o A r t H i s t o r y A n a C h a v e s H o s p i t a l i t y M a n a g e m e n t a n d To u r i s m N i c h o l a s C h i o n c h i o F i n a n c e / S p a n i s h L a n g u a g e a n d C u l t u r e L a e t i t i a C h o p p i n P o l i t i c a l S c i e n c e Robert Colom Anthropology/Film Katerina Cortina Recreational Therapy Kimberlee Dekrey Economics/Mathematics S a m a n t h a E s p i n o s a I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e l a t i o n s / F r e n c h Santiago Figueroa Biomedical Engineering Stefanie Fitzwilliam Finance

Jessica Gómez Criminal Justice

Greta Gonzalez English

J o r d a n G u e d e s W o m e n ’s S t u d i e s / P s y c h o l o g y

J u a n G u z m a n D i e t e t i c s a n d N u t r i t i o n Karina Harfouche Computer Science

Carol Kaminskas International Business

K a r i n a L i v i n g s t o n I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e l a t i o n s

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M i c h e l l e C a s t i l l o P o l i t i c a l S c i e n c e / P s y c h o l o g y

A d r i a L l e r e n a F i n e A r t s Melanie Martinez Liberal Studies L u i s M a s i e r i I n f o r m a t i o n Te c h n o l o g y

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Yo á n M o r e n o E n g l i s h P a o l o P i c h a r d o P s y c h o l o g y E n e i d a P i ñ o n A r c h i t e c t u r e Fabrizio Pittaluga Marketing

Ya n e l y s R o s u a A r c h i t e c t u r e

A l e x i e S a b a l a P s y c h o l o g y

Maray Santin English/Political Science

Bianca Saqui International Business & Finance

A z a e l S a r m i e n t o B i o m e d i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g

A l i S a t t a r i R e l i g i o u s S t u d i e s

James Shackleford Psychology

Rachelle Soderman Advertising

Cristina Sternitzke Biology

I s a r y Ta m a y o I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e l a t i o n s / E n g l i s h

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S u s a n Ta p i a I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e l a t i o n s / P o l i t i c a l S c i e n c e C h a r e l l e Tr i m G e o l o g y Jennifer Vazquez Liberal Studies/ Entrepreneurship Simon Vazquez-Rojas Finance Oscar Vela International Relations/Geography Kirk Villalón History/Political Science

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Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers was born in 1958 in Miami. Chambers’ work has been influenced by his father, a cellular and molecular physiologist, and his mother, a painter/sculptor from Oregon. He worked in his father’s laboratory in Miami and in Woods Hole, MA, at the MBL. He also spent time in his mother’s studio. “My parents took me to many unique and exciting places, both here and outside of the United States. They trained me in many of their skills.” It is clear his family background plays a large role in his work. “They involved me in the arts and sciences from an early age.”

Chambers describes his work as an “experimentation of material and tool with contemporary narrative response.” His scientific background is apparent in his sculptures, with some combining mythology and molecular composition. His latest residency has been with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, a program that celebrates artists using experimental materials and techniques. Last year, he brought the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center to life with a commission awarded by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, displaying two 10 and 12 ton sculptures titled Orbital 1 and Orbital 2 and a large-scale programmed LED light installation titled Light Field in the lobby.

Nicholas Chionchio Katerina Cortina Santiago Figueroa Stefanie Fitzwilliam

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Chambers earned his BFA from UM in 1983 and his MA from NYU in 1990. He also attended programs in Italy and France. Later he returned to contribute to both schools, teaching at NYU and as a Visiting Professor at UM. His first solo show was at the Sculpture Center, NYC. His pieces can be seen internationally. Recent exhibitions include the “2011 Invitation Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC. Awards include the Nancy Graves, Louis Comfort Tiffany, South Florida Cultural Consortium and the USA Nimoy Fellowship. He has pieces in the permanent collection of MOMA, MAM, MoCA, the Laumeier Sculpture Park, the Kemper Museum, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

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Light Field, Orbital 1, Orbital 2, 2011 Mixed Media Installation Dimensions Variable South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (Photo courtesy of Robin Hill)

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Luis Garcia-Nerey

Luis Garcia-Nerey was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1973. Growing up near the Art Center in Miami, he took an interest in art early on. He attended the New World School of the Arts and went on to pursue his studies at Long Island University, where he obtained a BFA and honed his skills in painting and sculpture.

He lives and works in Miami, and has been a resident artist at Art Center South Florida since 2007.

Whether it’s a painting, a wood-based sculpture, or an installation created with found objects, much of Garcia-Nerey’s work is based on the theory of constructionism. In his pieces, he explores how both the individual and society are influenced and created by each other. “[My work] comes from the philosophy of the Self and the Other. I believe that our existence depends on one another. I’m most interested in interactions. I take this philosophy and apply it to what I do. As you interact with my work, you construct it and it constructs you.”

Throughout his career, Garcia-Nerey has participated in several major solo and group shows. In 2011, he was selected as a contributor for the magazine Revista Cruce, produced by the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Communications at the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico. His work has been exhibited throughout world and he is represented by galleries in Atlanta (Astolfi Art), New York (Cheryl Hazan Gallery), Canada (Whistler Village Art Gallery), and Puerto Rico (Viota Gallery), to name a few. Most recently GarciaNerey has been selected for a project entitled Kollabs by the Banff Art in Residency program (BAIR) at the Banff Centre in Canada, founded by the University of Alberta.

Kimberlee DeKrey Carol Kaminskas Alexie Sabala Rachelle Soderman

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Luis Garcia-Nerey Mesopotomia, 2008 Mixed media (all materials were collected in Puerto Rico) Dimensions Variable (installation covered 700 sq ft) Partial Installation view at Viota Gallery, Puerto Rico

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Jiae Hwang

Jiae Hwang was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1981. She spent her childhood between South Korea and the United States, coming to Space Coast, Florida, at 11 years old. She attended the New World School of the Arts in Miami, receiving a dual BFA in Drawing and Electronic Media.

Through her art, Hwang investigates hypothetical and open-ended structures, addressing issues such as technology, the past, the future and the viability of these concepts in a time, such as the present, when the demand for “speed” has rendered them almost irrelevant. She explores different media (drawing, painting, video and installation), maintaining her place as an artist in the present while analyzing and proposing post-ironic possibilities. “In drawing,” she says, “I approach images through negative spaces, inverting the usual way of marking the paper. I seek to re-formulate situations where speed is depicted rather than enacted, [and where] futurist and supremacist-inspired compositions are challenged, becoming [instead] chaotic and random propositions.”

Jiae Hwang currently lives and works in Miami. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo and the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris, as well as MoCA North Miami and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.

Jordan Guedes Adria Llerena James Shackleford Jenny Vazquez

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Jiae Hwang

Celebration (Mango Salsa), 2010 Charcoal and graphite on paper 47� x 47�

Courtesy of the artist

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Kuhl & Leyton

Brad Kuhl and Monique Leyton were born in 1983, into the societal conditioning of violence and crime – pivotal elements they would use almost two decades later as collaborative artists. The duo became close while attending the Design and Architecture Senior High School in Miami, but started their collaboration while studying abroad in Rome through Cornell University.

The creative works of Kuhl & Leyton stem from an early exposure to celebrities with life-altering and emergency situations. The sense of fear instilled by television programming fascinated them over time, and eventually evolved into a source of inspiration for their hauntingly alluring scenes. The artists use colored packing tape as their primary medium, juxtaposing the severity of the events they depict with the lightheartedness of the tape to pinpoint the particular effects of curiosity and desensitization. Kuhl notes, “We found tape in a stationery store. I remember looking at Monique and thinking, ‘This is what we have to use.’ We started with crime; it just came to mind with the nature of the tape.”

“We expanded,” says Leyton, “beyond ‘just the violence,’ to be more about the entire compass of crime.”

Robert Colom Melanie Martinez Maray Santin Azael Sarmiento

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The team does most of its work in the dark, designing their pieces and then projecting them onto the surface of the paper. The ambiance and nature of the works often frighten guests of their studio. But working in the dark is “the best part,” according to Kuhl and Leyton. “You flip on the lights, and you get to see what you’re working on, and that’s how it is for us. People come and visit us and are always scared to come see our work, because it’s entering the dark.”

Kuhl and Leyton are currently represented by Carol Jazzar Gallery in Miami, Florida.

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Kuhl & Leyton Chessboard Killer, 2010 Acrylic tape, book tape on paper 60” X 152” Courtesy of Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

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Ed Levine

“Art must resist intelligence, almost successfully.”—Levine The complexity in Ed Levine’s pieces lies within their simplicity. A simple idea can inspire a variety of questions and initiate a dialogue. There is no true definition of art and there is no sole perspective in the work of Levine. He creates art because that is his passion; being merely aesthetically pleasing will not suffice. His work engages and questions the viewer’s status quo. “Art is something that is not concrete; ideas are constantly changing and growing.”

In Vermont, where he resides for half of the year, Levine assumes the role of carpenter, creating huge art structures and sculptures. These structures are site-specific installations usually positioned to interact directly with their environment, as well as with the audience. One of his most impressive sites is the Vermont settlement/project in which he has revived the interaction between the early settlers of Vermont and nature in its raw beauty. When in Miami, Levine works mainly honing his skills in photography, exploring the many aspects of light to invoke emotion and captivate the viewer. His sound piece In the Beginning in the MiamiDade County Public Library, as well as Godot’s Silence in FIU’s Green Library are examples of this.

Ana Chaves Juan Guzman Paolo Pichardo Ali Sattari

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Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935 and perhaps the most salient fact about his background is that he has yet to get over the fact that the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles. His achievements include a BA from Yale University, graduate work at NYU, chairing the Art Department at Wright State University, and serving as Dean of the Minneapolis School of Art, Dean of East Carolina University, and Director of Art at MIT.

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Ed Levine Embodying Thoreau: dwelling, sitting, watching - Thoreau’s Hut, 2003 Pine, cedar, recycled brick, flagstone, and stainless steel on concrete pad.

15’ 3” X 10’ X 15’ Courtesy of the Artist

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Jillian Mayer

“I was never good at anything I couldn’t make up.” —Mayer Born in 1984, Miami native Jillian Mayer playfully critiques the dissonance between her childhood optimism and the state of contemporary culture. A multidisciplinary artist, she utilizes drawing, photography, video, installation, and performance to enact scenarios of apathy, dysfunction, and disillusionment. “My subject matter was originally inspired by endless hours of television watching. I misunderstood characters in shows as role models. Identity was really interesting and at the same time, very confusing to me.”

Mayer’s attraction to visual and performance art stems from the need to understand and evaluate her subject matter. Not only does she conceptualize and direct her work, she often appears in it. “It is because it is very personal to me… and adding an additional actor or performer will just complicate the story by adding another degree of separation.”

Mayer has exhibited in the US and internationally, and has created several web-based projects. In 2010, Scenic Jogging was one of 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s “YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video” and was exhibited in Guggenheim Museums in New York, Venice, Bilbao, and Berlin.

Samantha Espinosa Isary Tamayo Oscar Vela

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Recent solo projects include Family Matters at the David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2011), Love Trips at World Class Boxing, Miami (2011) and a featured story in Art Papers. Upcoming projects include Erasey Page at the Bass Museum of Art. Her first narrative short film, Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, has also recently been selected for the Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest. Mayer received her BFA from Florida International University in 2007 and continues to live and work in Miami. She is represented by the David Castillo Gallery.

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Jillian Mayer Promo Model for Hire, 2011 Video Installation Dimensions Variable Courtesy of David Castillo Gallery

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Gean Moreno

It could be said that Gean Moreno both moves and stagnates, evolves and degenerates through time and space– given that any of these terms has incontestable meaning. Through conversation with him, you will undoubtedly note the reality that anything said can be deconstructed–and will be–until a vocal weariness has established itself or a momentary aporia has been reached. It is this unending, fragmented dialectic that drives him, but not toward the void one would expect. There is, after all, an interest developed in the mess of now.

Moreno has developed an interest in the acceleration and the (accelerated) standardization of the social field and its products. His preoccupation leads him to produce “sculptural projects, para-literary texts, and collages,” often in collaboration with other artists, that respond to specific sites and situations. His exhibitions, then, occur within the social field that preoccupies him. He does not attempt to step outside of what cannot be exited.

Some of these spaces include MoCA North Miami, the Miami Art Museum, the Kunsthaus Palais Thum and Taxis in Bregenz, the Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee, the Haifa Museum in Israel, Arndt & Partner in Zurich, and Invisible-Exports in New York.

Apart from these exhibitions, he has also contributed texts to catalogues/anthologies such as Uncertain States of America! (Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo), Round-Leather Worlds (Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin), and Catastrophe?

What Catastrophe!? (Manif D’Art, Québec City Biennial). In 2008, he founded [NAME] publications.

Mayanin Castro Laetitia Choppin Yoán Moreno Kirk Villalón

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Moreno was born in 1972 in Queens, New York. He was educated in Bogotá, Colombia, and Miami, Florida. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Florida International University in 1997. He then obtained his M.A. in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, in 2008.

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Werner, 2005 Mixed Media 36” X 36’’ X 48’’ Courtesy of the artist

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Gavin Perry

Gavin Perry was born in Philadelphia in 1971. He received his BFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1996 and currently resides and works in Miami. Represented nationally and internationally by the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Barbara Davis Gallery and the Sultana Gallerie, Perry’s artwork has been exhibited in the US as well as numerous other countries, including Germany, Switzerland and Italy. An active sculptor, painter and photographer, Perry has two solo shows, Glacier at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery and I Believe in Jim Jones at the Sultana Gallerie in Paris, France.

The original aspects of Perry’s practice rely on his ability to combine contrasting elements in individual pieces. After Perry’s education, he began to develop the idea of painting and sculpting as two separate studies and believes in converting this dichotomy into one form.

Perry’s interest in entropy is represented within his work; he believes that “new life can be gained by examining things as they decay. I use resin as a way to freeze or slow this eventual decline… to better view the passage of time and as an analogue of those events.” Depth is another important characteristic of Perry’s work. In OLD BLACK, for example, Perry portrays silver leaves on paper that seems to have been folded; however, the illusion is completely recreated utilizing drawing, painting and sculpting techniques.

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Currently, Perry is a finalist for the Jean-Francois Prat Award for painting in France. In 2009, he was honored by the South Florida Cultural Consortium, which included an exhibition at Florida Atlantic University. Perry’s work has also been reviewed in various publications, including Flash Art, Art in America, Art Nexus, Miami Contemporary Artists, the Miami Herald, and New Times Miami.

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Gavin Perry I Believe in Jim Jones, 2011 Mixed Media Installation Dimensions Variable Courtesy of Galerie Sultana

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Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar are the collaborative duo of R&R Studios, whose work brings together the private and the public, the mundane and the monumental, in ways that suggest “imaginary solutions” for a better world. Born and educated in Argentina, the duo received their diplomas in architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario but moved to Miami in 1985 due to political turmoil. They have since settled down and made Miami their new hometown. One of their most notable contributions to the city is the urban intervention known as The Living Room, a 42-ft-tall unfinished home turned inside out. This structure of concrete, stainless steel, glass, fiberglass, fabric, and paint performs as a social sculpture, bridging the gap between popular culture and contemporary art, private life and public space. This particular piece is exemplary of their practice, which moves between painting, public art, architecture, and urbanism.

The work of Behar and Marquardt has been widely featured in publications, museums, and art galleries around the globe. A sample of the pair’s solo exhibition venues includes the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Centre International pour la Ville et l’Architecture in Brussels and the Institut Français d’Architecture in Paris.

Karina Livingston Luis Masieri Eneida Piñon Susan Tapia

The team has a long list of recognitions and honors. They are recipients of the 2001 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Arts and Media Award. Behar received a visual art fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, and a visiting artist fellowship at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles. They have been guest lecturers around the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Their most recent collaborative publications include The Peace Project (2007) and M (2010). Currently, both Marquardt and Behar are teaching at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture.

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Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt

World Poetical Map, 2008 6’ x 9’ Vinyl Courtesy Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

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David Rohn

David Rohn was born in the suburbs of New York, and his exposure to the city’s museums and galleries fueled his passion for a career in the arts. His desire to be part of the thriving art world led him to travel to Western Europe to embark on studies in art, art history, and urbanism. Rohn continued his professional education at New York University, Colgate University, the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Pratt Institute, where he earned his degree in architecture. Before moving to Miami in 1992 and making his mark on the city’s art scene, he lived in Rome and Paris for several years.

“I am interested in the integration of aspects of experience and existence – individual concerns with broader social concerns; of the physical, mental, and emotional/spiritual aspects of life,” he says. “At its best what we call ‘art’ incorporates and answers to all these categories in a unified way that mirrors the unified way we experience these aspects.”

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Rohn currently resides in Miami, where he is known as an installation, multimedia and performance artist.

His use of video and photography began as documentary practice and installation work, then evolved into the use of these media for their own aesthetic properties. Throughout his career he has been associated with museums and galleries such as the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Dorsch Gallery, Claude Douyon, and Kevin Bruk. His recent performance piece, The Amazing Ultran, was featured in the 2011 Scope Art Fair in Miami. Rohn is represented by Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, where he exhibited his latest work, a solo installation called Small, Medium, and Large.

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David Rohn

Marry Me (Western Union), 2008 Performance Courtesy of Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

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Honors College The mission of the Honors College is to provide a

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by providing cutting-edge academic and cocurricular opportunities; mentoring and inspiring students to excel and flourish through advanced research, community engagement, international study, and cultural literacy; providing the tools to develop a coherent worldview through higherorder reasoning, intellectual curiosity, and ethical judgment; and fostering integrity, responsibility, and civility in tomorrow’s leaders.

Camila Alvarez at Rubell Family Collection (photo by Jesse Meadows, A&V 2011)

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Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum The mission of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is to enrich and educate local, national and international audiences through the language of art by collecting, preserving, researching, interpreting and exhibiting art from diverse cultures throughout human history. The Frost Art Museum, located within a large urban institution, provides an exceptional resource for scholarly research

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augmenting the university’s educational mission as both a local and global center of knowledge and culture.

Carol Damian with the A&V 2012 class. (Photo by Alex Garcia)

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AESTHETICS & VALUES http://avexhibition.org/ The A&V seminar of the Honors College at FIU examines the vital role visual art plays in the social and cultural dialogue surrounding controversial issues. It investigates how artists have challenged or enforced authority by creating new aesthetics. It further explores how art is used to initiate, accelerate, or combat social change. The heart of the course is the A&V exhibition. This annual project provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their resourcefulness and creativity through the research, curation, and organization of an exhibition of contemporary Miami artists. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum supports and hosts the exhibition.

Professor John Bailly

Melanie Martinez, Katerina Cortina, and Stefanie Fitzwilliam installing Robert Chambers’ work (photo by Mayanin Castro, A&V 2012)

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Aesthetics & Values Alumni Advisory Board Andrea Lahoz (A&V 2008), Jairo Pava (A&V 2009), Rocio Perez (A&V 2007), Melisa Pita (A&V 2009), Miryam Rodriguez (A&V 2009) Aesthetics & Values CSO Club Susan Tapia (President, 2012), Kathelyn Paz (Co-President, 2011), Kharla Salazar (Co-President, 2011), Robert Colom (Vice President 2012), Charelle Trim (CSO Representative), Kirk Villalon (Treasurer, 2012)

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Council for Student Organizations A&V wishes to thank the Council for Student Organizations Executive Board for their support and funding. The A&V catalog would not be possible without the support of Liz Fava (President), Ivan Rubio (Vice President), Diana Chavez (Secretary), Jocelyn Cardenas (Treasurer), Lisa Baptist (Events Coordinator), and Ayana Wilson (Council Advisor).

A&V thanks all the institutions and individuals that have welcomed us this year: PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Lowe Art Museum, Norton Museum of Art, David Castillo Gallery, Dorsch Gallery, Gallery Diet, Rubell Family Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. A special note of gratitude to Ylinka Barotto (PULSE), David Castillo, Brook Dorsch, George Kinghorn (UMMA), Martin Z. Margulies, Luisa Munera (CIFO), Hope Torrents (Lowe), Juan Roselione-Valadez (Rubell), and Wendy Wolf (Vizcaya).

A&V thanks the following individuals and organizations for their partnerships: Gabriel Parra, Special Projects Coordinator of ARC, Tonja Parra, Trust Administrator of ARC, Andy Bilbao of Warehouse Alternative, Esteban Blanco of Accent Alternative Art Space, Luisa Mesa of Luisa Mesa Artspace, MANO of MANO Fine Art Project Space, and Robert Lee with SpeakFridays! Miami’s Most Diverse Open Mic, Robert Fernandez of Palmetto Carpet Co., The Yellow Canopy, Yeni Blanco of Aperture Studios Aesthetics & Values 2012

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A&V provides experiential learning opportunities in the contemporary art world. Students have interned at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery and the David Castillo Gallery, as well as volunteered or worked at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Art Miami, and LegalArt. In December 2011, the A&V class participated in ALALAÔ’s presentation of Ronald Duarte’s Nimbo Oxala performance at Art Public of Art Basel Miami Beach (photos courtesy of Art Basel).

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