Exhibiting Artists Magic City Innovation District Distrrict Presents
Route 1804 Haiti, Heartbeat of the Caribbean
A Caribbean art exhibition conceptualized by Sandy Dorsainvil Curated by Bart Mervil, MUCE, and Marie Vickles, Future Roots Collective.
Artist: t: Belina Wright
Magic City Innovation District invites you to... Route 1804: Little Haiti, Heartbeat of the Caribbean is a celebration of Haitian and Caribbean Culture. This exhibition is conceptualized by Sandy Dorsainvil of Maximillian Consultants Inc. and curated by Bart Mervil, the Miami Urban Contemporary Experience (MUCE), and Marie Vickles of Future Roots Collective. Route 1804 opens its doors during Miami Art Week and Art Basel Weekend, December 4th -10th at Magic City Innovation District, located at 6300 NE 4th Street, Miami, FL 33137.
1804: ...A successful revolution by former slaves against French colonial rule established Haiti as the first free Black republic in the Western Hemisphere, forever cementing the island’s legacy as the birthplace of independence in the Caribbean. The year 1804 marks a turning point in the history of the region, as colonies and countries around the world internalized the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and subsequently fought for their right to democracy, independent governance, liberation and self-expression.
Route 1804: Little Haiti, Heartbeat of the Caribbean explores these themes across across a variety of mediums and forms that reflect the history and rich culture of the Caribbean. Route 1804 is a celebration of the evolution and interconnectivity of the island nations represened within the unique and vibrant community found only in South Florida - in Miami’s Little Haiti.
Artist: Jean Chiang
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elected Artists Curated by: Marie Vickles, Future Roots Collective
Artist: Elaine Defibaugh
Amanda Bradley Amanda Bradley
Amanda Bradley was born and raised in Miami, FL where she received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. Her work explores place and landscape as a means to understand and expose histories, relationships and memory. Based on reflection and memory, this body of work draws connections from the sea and foreign spaces in images that serve as a means to challenge the line between here or there and past or present, along the way uncovering the small intimacies between memory and matter.
Under threat of persecution, Haitian-born Carl Phillipe Juste fled with his family from Haiti in 1965. Responding to a clear relationship he shared with the visual world, Juste vigorously pursued photojournalism and since 1991, has served his community through his work at the Miami Herald. Rewards include Picture of the Year, Pulitzer Prize, Society for News Design, Best of Photojournalism, and the RFK Journalism Award. Juste is founder of both the IPC Visual Lab and Iris Photo Collective.
Carl Juste Carl Juste
Chastity Pascoe is a South Florida sculptor whose work discusses the collective narratives of minority groups and attempts to bring about communal healing. In 2017, Ms. Pascoe received her BFA in Studio Art from Florida Atlantic University. She was a recipient of an FAU Research and Inquiry Grant and was also awarded a Friedland Project Grant for Studio Art. Her critically conscious artwork attempts to examine and challenge the inherently unjust systems that create social inequalities.
Chastity Pascoe Chastity Pascoe
Chire Regans (“VantaBlack”) is a Miami-based artist born in St Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Florida A&M University, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement pushed Chire’s art in the direction of social awareness. Her work in mixed media and portraiture investigates racial themes and memorializes victims of violence and injustice, while raising awareness and sparking a constructive dialogue in response to the question “Tell me of a time when you were made to feel invisible?”
Chire "VantaBlack" Regans Chire “VantaBlack” Regans
Corinne Stevie Francilus (born 1987) is a Haitian American artist who was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Corinne left Miami to study art at Atlanta College of Art (later Savannah College of Art and Design). Her experiences in Atlanta helped to cultivate a faith in both her artistic abilities and personal purpose. Her work uses color and symbolism to explore ideas of spirituality, politics, blackness, and Haitian heritage as well as African and American history.
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Arroyo received a BFA from Florida Int’l University in 2001 and has showed his work in multiple venues such as the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Swampspace, Bridge Red Studio, Spinello Projects, Haitian Heritage Museum, and Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Bearing witness to the effects of gentrification in Miami, his speculative approach documents structures which will soon be replaced by new development - chronicling the loss of a community’s cultural, social, and economic fabric.
Eddie Arroyo Eddie Arroyo
Edouard Edouard Duval-Carrié Duval-Carrie Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1954, Edouard Duval Carrié is a Miami-based world-renowned contemporary Haitian artist. He was educated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, in Paris, France; and at the University of Loyola Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. Known for his innovative adaptations of traditional Haitian iconography, which he engages in order to address contemporary social and political conditions, Duval-Carrié work encompasses large-scale paintings and sculptures.
Elaine Defibaugh
Elaine Defibaugh Born in New Castle PA, Elaine Defibaugh has been a fulltime artist with solo exhibitions, workshops, invitations and juried shows since 1989. From 1993-2006 she worked as an Adjunct Professor at RIT, U of R, and MCC. Elaine is a 2x recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant and has received a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Art Grant. Her work explores the effect of politics on our environment, emphasizing the intersection between nature, science, and aesthetic. Elaine lives and works in New York.
Elsie Remy is a Haitian-born artist with a philosophy that says God, the creator, is the greatest artist of all time. She studied at Parsons School of Design and FIT in New York City and has lived in France, Germany, Italy and Amsterdam where she further enhanced her eye and her craft. She finds inspiration in elements that give and feed life, elements of nature and the human body. She states that as artists, we counterfeit and mimic God’s art.
Elsie Remy El s i e R e m y
Born in Bulgaria, Emil Bodourov studied Classical Paintings & Fresco as a teenager. Leaving aside his passion for art, He graduated Aircraft Engineering In 1984 filled with disillusionment about the lack of basic freedom. He left the communist dictatorship in 1986 and wound up in New York working for Pan Am at JFK Airport. He has been painting since 1996.
Emil Bodourov Emil Bodourov
Born in Honduras in 198, Miami-based artist Emilio Martinez embraced painting as a means of expression. His work comes to life through his persistence of the dream realm – created through the constant repetitive dreams from his childhood memories. He has ongoing contact with the spiritual world through icons, symbols and texts from an unknown past of ancient primitive indigenous descendants. He has works represented in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad.
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Gianna Riccardi
Gi a nna R i cca r di
Gianna Riccardi is a contemporary photo-based artist born and raised in Miami, Florida. She grew up heavily influenced by her background of Haitian, Italian, and Lebanese roots. She earned her BFA from New World School of the Arts at UF. The overall goal of her work is to force the observers to break out of their comfort zones and get past the their conditioned outlook, bridging the gap between creation and self-understanding. She is currently a Resident Artist at The Bakehouse Art Complex.
Hattie Hattie MaeMae Willams Williams Hattie Mae Williams is a Miami native who received her BFA from The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and her MA at Goddard University. In 2003 she established her interdisciplinary dance company The Tattooed Ballerinas, forming roots in site specific dance. Hattie Mae has infused Film, Music, History, Installations, Literature and the practice of guerrilla style interventions in public spaces, pushing the boundaries of perception and community involvement in performance and process.
James James Brutus Brutus
James Brutus is a painter and portrait artist with a reputation of powerful figures balanced between meticulous brush strokes and dynamic loose energy. These figurative pieces question the social notion of nature, beauty, and the human longing for perfection. His work has been featured in Michigan View, The Chicago Tribune, among others. He has also exhibited several of his work in galleries across the United States, including the cities of Detroit, Chicago and his hometown of Miami, Florida.
Jean Chiang works in a wide range of media including clay, wood, paper, metal, paint, fiber, textile and beads. Her art integrates intricate embroidery and beading to works on paper and large scale interactive installations. Chiang received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramic Sculpture from Parsons School of Design in New York and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Hunter College in New York.
Jean Chiang Jean Chiang
Jean J e a H. n H.Marcelin Ma rce l i n Jean H. Marcelin has worked as a photographer, graphic designer and Industrial Arts instructor for the past 15 years. Much of Marcelin’s work has been inspired by Haitian culture as well as the colorful array of people indigenous to the Caribbean. His collection of documentary reportage captures the day to day life in an honest and unforced manner. He currently holds the seat as Executive Director and Co-Founder of a non-profit organization FePouL, an arts program for at-risk youth.
John English John English
Originally from Oberlin, Ohio, John English is South Florida-based artist and printmaker. He received a BFA in printmaking from FAU in 2016 and has exhibited work in galleries nationally and internationally, and in public and private collections throughout South Florida. Drawing inspiration from his family, his immediate surroundings and contemporary culture, he uses various traditional printmaking processes to explore themes relating to heritage, identity, race, America, and hip-hop music.
Khaulah Naima Nuruddin Khaulah Naima Nuruddin Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Khaulah Naima Nuruddin is a South Florida artist based out of Fort Lauderdale. In her work and art making practice, Nuruddin addresses issues relating to social injustice and community engagement. She currently facilitates Exhibitions Management for the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum and serves as Museum Education Coordinator for the University Galleries at FAU, where she is also an adjunct instructor of studio art.
Kira Tippenhauer Kira Tippenhauer
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Kira was raised by an architect/engineer father and kindergarten director mother. Her work explores a variety of media and she is currently making work in ceramic, in addition to works on paper. Kira is most drawn to organic materials and compositions. She is also a dedicated Teaching Artist and believes in the impact of collaborative teaching and art practices centered on community building. Kira Tippenhauer has a multidisciplinary practice of fine art and design line under the name of Kiramade based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Born in Cuba, artist Laura Prada was raised in the dance, music, and art of the African Yoruban Diaspora. In 2015, Laura began her career as Teaching Artist at the Perez Art Museum (PAMM), presenting concepts to youth through storytelling and inquiry method to engage and develop conversations about the artist’s process in Contemporary Art. Her current series of photographs portrays a generational representation of motherhood through women in her family.
Laura Prada
Laura Prada
Lorie Ofir L ori e O f ir
Artist Lorie Ofir is on a journey to the impossible horizon of a landscape. Her most recent series of large scale oil paintings, collages, and watercolor paintings are the synthesis of surreal and expansive landforms, present experiences, and memories. Lorie has exhibited in Florida and throughout in the U.S. and has found inspiration as an Art and Special Needs Instructor for the past eight years, using art as a catalyst for curiosity, collaboration, and analytical thinking skills.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1957, Louis Rosemund’s depictions of colorful market scenes, fruits and jungles are have received international acclaim. When painting his jungle scenes, Rosemond says he is imagining the the paradise that Haiti was as a child. His work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions in Venezuela, Australia, Puerto Rico, Curacao, through the United States and his native Haiti.
Louis Rosemond
Louis Rosemond
Maria Theresa Barbist Maria Theresa Barbist Using the unconscious as a playground for creation, Maria Theresa Barbist (b. 1979, Austria; lives in Miami) translates traumatic experiences into performative actions, moving pictures and sculptural objects. She holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Innsbruck and received her MFA in New Genres from the SF Art Institute. Her work was recently included in “Intersectionality in South Florida� at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Artfields and the Miami Short Film Festival.
Mike Braun Mike Braun
Raised in Mexico DF and Miami, Mike Braun’s work opens a discourse by which to merge the experience of both paces and still maintain an outsider’s point of view, always searching for a theoretical balance. He creates works using packaging and discarded materials, aluminum, wood, concrete, feathers, plexi, automotive paints and plastics, fiberglass machining and all the standard tools related to painting, drawing and sculpting.
M.A.I. Mutual Assured Inspiration
M.A.I - Mutual Assured Inspiration Raised in Mexico DF and Miami, Mike Braun’s work opens a discourse by which to merge the experience of both paces and still maintain an outsider’s point of view, always searching for a theoretical balance. He creates works using packaging and discarded materials, aluminum, wood, concrete, feathers, plexi, automotive paints and plastics, fiberglass machining and all the standard tools related to painting, drawing and sculpting.
Natalya Kochak Natalya Kochak
Natalya Kochak was born in New York and has since lived in Alabama, Chicago, Berlin and Beijing. She graduated with her BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now splits her time between Miami and Austin, Texas.
In 2010, she received a residency with the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing and in 2011 traveled to Berlin for a three-month residency with Takt Kunstprojektraum. In February 2018, she will be traveling back to Guangzhou, China for a residency at the Lido Art Center.
Octavia Yearwood O c t av i a Y e arw ood
Octavia Yearwood is an arts educator, motivational speaker, choreographer, and an overall entrepreneur from New York City. She relocated to Miami in 2012 to expand her arts services company, Team Ohhh.
Through Team Ohhh she provides dance and visual art enrichment programming in public schools, private schools and dance studio’s around the world. She has been an educator for the last 15 years, using the arts to bridge the gap between community and academia.
Orocoro
Orocoro
Orocoro was born in Cuba and came to the United States at the age of 5 (raised in New York). He graduated with an MFA from Rutgers University in 1992. He currently lives in Miami where he creates his work and teaches art.
Robert McKnight was born in Kingstree, SC in 1951 and moved to Miami with his family in 1953. He received a BFA in fine arts from Syracuse University and has maintained an active presence in fine arts, exhibiting extensively throughout South Florida and the southeastern states. McKnight has realized various ma jor public artworks in Miami. He has had numerous solo shows and has participated in group exhibitions at museums and galleries across Florida.
Robert McKnight Robert McKnight
Rudolf Kohn was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1971. He began his first drawings at age 3 and rreceived a degree in art at Universidad de los Andes in 1992. His paintings are alive as satirical anecdotes, illustrating history past and that is yet to come. He is currently working with a new series “Nature and the Machine.� Most works are large format oil or acrylic on canvas, or drawings on paper. Rudolf arrived in Miami, Florida in 1992 beginning as an artist resident at the Bakehouse Art Complex.
Rudolf Kohn Rudolf Kohn
Sergio Garcia Sergio Garcia
Miami-based artist Sergio Garcia was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959 and emigrated to the US as a child. .Granted a full scholarship to study art, Sergio became disenchanted with academia and dropped out in 1979 to start Miami’s first “Punk” band, The Leopards, playing at the famous Agora Ballroom Club where groups such as Iggy Pop, Blondie, and The Ramones and other legends of that era graced the stage. Tired of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll of those years, he turned back to his first love, art.
Haitian born artist Sophia Lacroix uses powerful and strong colors to convincingly portray the strength and bravery of the people of Haiti, as well as the innocence and playfulness of its children. She has exhibited her realistic oil paintings, charcoal drawings and giclĂŠe prints in group and solo shows throughout the US, including New York, Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Orlando and Miami, where she has developed a loyal following of local, international and famous collectors.
Sophia LaCroix Sophia LaCroix
Vered Shamir Vered Shamir Pasternak Pasternak Vered Shamir Pasternak is a late-blooming artist with a passion for portraits. A native Israeli, serving her country in the IDF and raising a son, she emigrated to the U.S. and has been able to achieve a lifelong dream of artistic expression. Within the last two years, Vered has recognized the opportunity working as a full-time artist; working on two main series she’s entitled acculturation, representing relocation and acceptance.
Vickie Pierre Vickie Pierre
Vickie Pierre is a mixed media artist born in Brooklyn, New York where she graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. The artist currently lives and works in Miami. Pierre has participated in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, art centers and museums throughout South Florida. The artist’s work has also been included in national and international institutions such as White Box, New York; National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and Inman Gallery, Texas.
Yves Gabriel was born in Haiti and currently lives in South Florida. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts and Bachelors degree in Graphic Design. His artistic journey began over 10 years ago as an Organic Sculptor and Digital Artist. In his latest series themed “Krik? Krak!: Is Anyone Listening�, the artist confronts the most controversial and substantive issues that continue to affect Haitian society, including class identity and objectification of women.
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elected Artists Curated by: Bart Mervil, Miami Urban Contemporary Experience
Artist: Joanah Whitely
Adewale Adenle’s work explores the dual realities and logics in political constructs and systems, arriving at an inter-disciplinary concept and a three-dimensional form that vastly engages the viewer to unload and search for multiple logics in its interpretation. His visual language includes mixed media painting, new/digital media, drawing, installation, socio-political cartooning and illustration—voiced from unmitigated queer experiences as an immigrant and memoirist.
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Alix Joseph Gauchier is a Haitian painter based in Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from the International Fine Art College Miami. After graduation Aix pursued a career commercial retail design. With an eye towards Haitian culture, he believes art reflects visible and invisible things and the powers around us. His love for the instrument “tambour� (drum) is reflected in most of his latest paintings.
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Anthony Lumpkin
Anthony Lumpkin Anthony “Lump� Lumpkin, Miami African American artist, was born in an area of Miami where art was nonexistent except for the graffiti on the walls. Celebrities such as The O-Jays, Akon, Wyclef, and T-Pain have worn his creations. He used T-shirts as canvas creating walking art. Since embracing his talent, Lumpkin has appeared in several art shows and festivals including Art Basel Miami, a pop up shop at Jazz in the Gardens and several shows for Miami Urban Contemporary Experience.
Belina Wright is a self-taught artist that believes her ability to paint is a God given gift. Her art is strongly influenced by her Haitian and African-American heritage. She tries to capture its vibrancy in her work. She enjoys painting people in their element- from the extreme to the simple and mundane whether it’s laughing, dancing, singing or working.
Belina Wright Belina Wright
Bermy Dorvil was born in Dondon, a small village in the north of Haiti on November 3, 1964. In 1979, He began to study in the atelier of the master, Philome Obin, and was soon selling his work to tourists from the cruise ships. By 1980 he had joined the Centre d�Art in Port-au-Prince. His style is influenced by Philome Obin but he would better be described as a modern primitive; his paintings are executed with a high degree of technical skill.
Bermy Dorvil Bermy Dorvil
Brittany Sassine creates sculptures of women’s bodies, portraying one as multiple religions being transformed into a modern day African American woman. This project was to show growth over time and combining the human race as one, as we all are born the same way and function in similar ways. This is to show the beginning of something to the strength of the ending like clay that starts from the earth and ends in a hardened state when it has been fired.
Brittany Sassine Brittany Sassine
Destiny Charles believes her art to be the physical manifestation of future goals and past experiences. She has studied herself as a sort of self-reflecting scientist, believing in the importance of experimentation. Her art is not bound to one specific style, which reflects her incessant desire for new experiences. Her work explores the universal desire to gain independence, whether it be from each other, or from God, in ways that unite us and tear us apart.
Destiny Charles Destiny Charles
D o b aAfolabi Afolabi Doba
Painting as a genre of creativity has given Doba Afolabi a diverse opportunity to experiment and explore ideas by which cultural elements can be utilized in aesthetic fulfillment. Every piece of his work is never a repetition. They bear unique newness in colors, forms or dimension. He believes his works should always bring forth a new and captivating paradigm in all creative manifestations.
Ganzalo Borges
Ganzalo Borges Gonzalo Borges, a prominent Cuban painter and drawer, was born in La Habana Cuba in 1936. Since his early years his talent was evident for drawing, devoting particular attention to mythological African classic tales of the Yoruba religion. At the age of twelve years Borges began his first painting production in which he undertook those matters related to Cuban folklore.
ZeekMathias Mathias IsiaeIsiae Zeek Isaie “Zeek” Mathias is a photographer whose work in light & shadow explores the “intersection of the three themes: “legacy, transmission and articulation” all of which are central to Haitian culture and the
broader African diaspora culture. The gumbo of his evocative photography is a reverberation of his formative visual influences: marketing photography and folk paintings of the natural world. Mr. Mathias lives and works in the United States + Haïti.
Joe Wesley was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti and raised in Miami, FL. He has a BS in Studio Art from Florida University. He is the founder of Joe Wesley Photography and Anpu Productions. Through his work he desires to exhibit black stories without stereotypes. It is through his passion to share the truth in these stories that he has created a passion project entitled Black Bodies.
Joe Wesley Joe Wesley
Joanah Whitely has always been drawn to the process of creating. Whether graphite on paper, acrylic on canvas, or random findings plastered to cardboard, her work often depicts facial expressions and body language to provoke thought, aid in personal development, even to disturb, in a search for truth. She believes art is the process of interpreting and epitomizing perspective, thoughts, emotions,
Joanah Whitely Joanah Whitely
Jude J u d e Papaloko Papaloko Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jude Thegenus (“Papaloko�) is an artist whose work is interpreted from trance into paint strokes of life onto canvas. Jude studied sculpture and ceramics at the Art Institute of Saint Jean Bosco and later completed his education at Lycee Antenor Firmin. A disciple of Haitian art both native and modern, Thegenus has developed a unique and personal style of working with acrylics. His one-of-a-kind textural compositions create a serene excitement.
Katy Penner Katy Penner
Artist Katy Penner has an artistic style greatly influenced by her upbringing in South Florida. The exciting collision of culture, color, and customs has converged in her art to create canvases which express diverse elements. Using a palette knife and a wide array of acrylic paint colors, she create pieces that resonate with passion and life. It is her desire to bring a unique sense of color, imagination, and perspective to each waiting canvas.
MOAL MOAL M.O.A.L is an urban Installation conceptual and multi-media artist. Influenced by German Expressionism, Art Brut and West African hieroglyphics, M.OA.L investigates various tribal symbols across the globe. In his work, traditional linear primitive Afrocentric characters transform into layered complex conversations in an atmospheric rhythmic trance, displacing and overstepping material,
Moise Dorcelin is a painter based in South Florida. He is dedicated to creating art that transcends beauty and aesthetics to form a deeper meaning related to the struggling and uprising of the black community.
Moise Dorcelin Moise Dorcelin
Nate Dee Nate Dee
Born and raised in South Florida, Nathan Delinois (Nate Dee) finds many influences in his Haitian background. The street art movement, the design quality of the Art Nouveau movement, pop surrealism and the drama of the Hellenistic period in Greek art: elements of these styles may be seen in his work.
Rafael Van Troi, born in Santo Domingo, DR, was involved in street art from an early age. He moved to Miami in 1989 and graduated from International Fine Arts College with a BFA in 1998. With present headquarters in the DR, his work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Orlando Fl and Santo Domingo, as well as murals done in the slums of Santo Domingo. He is co-owner of Bikeko gallery in Santo Domingo.
Rafael Rafael Valentino Valentino
Rara Kuyu got his name at a young age from neighborhood friends who couldn’t pronounce Gerard, and has run with it ever since. Miami restaurant Tap Tap curators Gina Cunningham and Peter Eves discovered Kuyu’s work in Haiti on the walls of the famous Oloffson Hotel in Port Au Prince, where Kuyu is also a noted musician.. He is co-owner of Bikeko gallery in Santo Domingo.
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Rodney Jacksonou Rodney Jackson
R. Jackson is a visual artist, award-winning illustrator, and art director. In 2002 he developed the design department for the student publication Conchita Magazine where he still acts as Instructional Art Director and consultant.
Since 2002, he has also been an artist and lecturer for the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator’s (DVCAI) International Cultural Exchange program, in over six countries, led by Rosie Gordan-Wallace.
Supreme Supreme
Supreme’s signature art form of eye-catching and immaculate geometric abstract paintings, which he coins “Perfectionism”, tells a detailed story through the use of select colors and shape in a precise location. With focus and attention to detail, his pieces go through a strenuous three to four week progression to ensure the greatest accuracy, which even at that point will be recreated at the first sight of the slightest flaw.
Stina Aleah finds inspiration through the beauty of life, her own personal growth, and the experiences she encounters along the way. She believes that art heals, and behind each painting, there’s a story that viewers can relate to.
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As she continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally, her mission is for art enthusiast and collectors to feel connected with the concepts and meaning behind her visual creations.
Tavares Hill Tavares Hill
Yudelka Tavera is a Miami-based artist and art director and; educator raised in New York City. Originally from the DR, she holds a BA in Fine Arts from SUNY Albany, and has studied printmaking under Marsha Steinberg in Florence, Italy. A strong advocate for all things art and multicultural impacting today’s youth and education, Yudelka now currently resides in the Sailboat Bend artist community in Fort Lauderdale and works as a freelance artist, youth mentor, art teacher and consultant.
Yudelka Tavera Yudelka Tavera
Johanne Rahaman
Johanne Rahaman Johanne Rahaman is a Trinidadian-born, Miami-based documentary photographer, working in both digital and film formats since 2002. Her most recent body of work, an ongoing photographic archive of shifting urban and rural spaces occupied by the Black communities throughout the State of Florida, consists of environmental portraits, landscape, architectural and still life images, underscoring the urgency and importance of recording these neighborhoods that are in a constant state of flux.
Born in New York to traditional Haitian parents, Guiteau holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. During her training, she traveled internationally to learn and broaden her artistic experience at the University of Westminster in London. Guiteau believes that at its core, art is something that cannot be taken for granted, with its ability to convey emotion where words often fail from the artist to the viewer showing how interconnected human beings are.
Tracy Guiteau Tracy Guiteau
McKinson Souverain Mckinson Souverain
Mckinson Souverain’s work portrays a balance between strength and hope infused in the medium of acrylic and oil paints on canvas.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, at Bethune-Cookman University.His work is an expression of boldness, love and empowerment. His belief is that the ones with the least amount of resources are compelled to be the most creative.
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Marcus Blake
Marcus Blake
Marcus Blake is a Jamaican-born, Miami-based multimedia artist whose work includes poetry, street art, fashion, performance, event coordinating and visual art. His work reflects bright colors and intricately mixed vivid geometric patterns in a style he calls “tapenology�, inspired by the tropical landscape and architecture of Miami. His work be seen throughout the streets of Miami.
Route 1804 is supported by Magic City Innovation District (MCID), a development in Little Haiti, Miami. With an emphasis on Haitian and Caribbean art, “Magic City Innovation District seeks to preserve and celebrate the cultural landscape of Little Haiti. “ Magic City Innovation District Foundation has been working alongside leaders in the community on a variety of initiatives”, says Neil Fairman, a partner of MCID Sandy Dorsainvil, who has led the efforts to make this exhibit possible, echoes Fairman’s sentiments. “As the city experiences transformation, it is imperative that the artistic community that has been such a vital force within Little Haiti remains involved in the community.”
Producing and co-curating the art show are Bart Mervil, of local collective Miami Urban Culture Experience MUCE and Marie Vickles, of Future Roots Collective. MUCE shares the belief that the arts belong in every community and is committed to utilizing arts as a vehicle to preserve heritage and as a platform to diversify the artistic landscape in the western world. Marie Vickles, of Future Roots Collective, is an independent curator and museum educator with a commitment to community building through the arts. She has worked in Little Haiti for the past seven years curating exhibitions and creating compelling, community-driven arts programming. This exhibition is free and open to the public December 5th - 10th. Attendees are encouraged to explore the thematic expressions of Caribbean history and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and trace their unique cultural nuances back to Little Haiti. All works are available for sale.
Artist: Moise Dorcelin