Reconstructing Identity

Reconstructing Identity is an exhibition exploring identity and diaspora through works drawn from practices of painting, photography, sculpture, and drawings, by artists of American, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, and Jamaican cultures.

The exhibition is curated by Donnamarie Baptiste, and features works by Christopher Carter, Duwane Coates, Morel Doucet, Adler Guerrier, Rhea Leonard, Franciso Maso, T Elliott Mansa, Kandy Lopez-Moreno, Sharon Norwood, Onajide Shabaka, and Asser Saint Val.

Exhibition Dates: June 6 – 27, 2019; opening reception: 6 to 9 pm on June 6th, at Historic Ward Rooming House, 249 Northwest 9th Street, View Map .

This Miami MoCAAD (Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora ) exhibit is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional sponsors include Hampton Art Lovers, Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency and Sugarcane Magazine.

Artists Open Miami

Bakehouse is participating in Artists Open, a Miami-Dade County-wide open studios day, Saturday, May 11, 11am–6pm, 561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, FL 33127.

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Important Links

Artists Open Website: www.artistsopen.miami The website provides links to each location both via website and physical address.

Eventbrite event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-open-tickets-60728163572

Google Map linking all studio complexes.  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1rmQI0SjJpeTrp_wjwECPMw8wjfjVT-9U&ll=25.753149722895206%2C-80.23599304999999&z=11

Tamara K.E.

An article and interview with Tamara K.E. via atelierbesuche.

The figures in my images do not develop from already existing comic characters, but develop as random data. In this context, an obsessive, not clearly definable language is important. A language, which takes the dynamics of our cultural memory on board and therefore defies any final interpretation.

Untitled, 2014/18
Watercolour marker, gel pen, Tipp-Ex on paper
29,5 x 21 cm
via Aurel Scheibler

Beck-Eggeling.