Artist Fereshteh Toosi at Pelican island
A light-skinned Iranian-American artist with short brown hair is wearing a navy blue t-shirt and solar eclipse glasses. They are standing on a concrete pier in Miami staring up at the sun which is out of frame. The text for a quote by Robin Wall Kimmerer (transcribed above) is superimposed on the blue sky with clouds, trees, and shrubs in the background.
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Rosemarie Chiarlone - Biography
Rosemarie Chiarlone lives/works in Miami, FL. Her work explores the physical and psychological boundaries of human connection, creating works that comprise multifaceted matters addressing gender, societal and political contexts. These concepts are created in works on paper, hand-made books, photo and video-based work, installations, and sculpture.
Chiarlone studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Florida International University with a BFA and a Master’s degree in the arts.
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her works have most recently been on view at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Center for Book Arts in New York, NY. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Galerie Verein Berliner Kunstler, Berlin, Germany; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; University of Gloucestershire, England; University of Kyoto, Japan; Universidad de Costa Rica and the Museo de Artsy Diseno Contempranio, San Jose, Costa Rica; McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Girls Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL.
She has received honors and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Florida Visual Arts Fellowship, Florida Artist Enhancement Grant and the Artist Opportunity Award from Citizens for Florida Arts and the Division of Cultural Affairs. She’s received other grants from public and private organizations as well as a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and the Deering Estate, Miami Florida.
Chiarlone’s work is in numerous private and national museum collections including: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Center for Book Art, New York, NY; The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL; The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects, Boca Raton, FL; The Mosquera Collection, Liza and Dr. Arturo F. Mosquera, Coral Gables, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Girls’ Club/Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; University of Miami, Special Collections, Coral Gables, FL and the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
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Chire Regans - Biography
Artist Chire “VantaBlack” Regans’ art practice exists at the intersection of social justice and storytelling. Her work responds to urgent societal concerns and functions as a critical platform to amplify the voices of the communities she engages with. Over the past decade, Chire’s work has focused primarily on community advocacy and depicting social narratives without distortion, in a variety of mediums. As a Saint Louis native, the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement triggered a sense of urgency in her art practice and it has continued to expand, allowing for a wider range of social accessibility and creative scale. In South Florida, Chire continues to marry her artistic practice with community-led activism, emphasizing the art of storytelling as a means of engaging with communities with radical empathy and transparency. Chire was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and relocated to Miami in the late 1980s. She studied at New World School of the Arts in the mid-90s and graduated from Florida A&M University in 2005. Chire serves on the Miami Dade County Community Relations Board's Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Committee and was the Fall 2020 Artist-in-Residence with the Community Justice Project.
Chire has received critical recognition for her work in advancing social justice and racial equity. In 2020, she received The Ellies Social Justice Award from Oolite Arts and was recognized as the Best Visual Artist by the Miami New Times. Recently, in 2021, she was awarded a prize for her leadership and activism from The Miami Foundation’s Racial Equity Fund.
Lyne Golob Gelfman - Biography
Lynne Golob Gelfman grew up in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, (BA, 1966) and the School of the Arts, Columbia University, (MFA, 1968). She taught art at the Dalton School from 1968 until 1972, the year that she and her husband started a flower farm outside Bogotá¡, and moved to Miami, an import gateway for the flowers. For Gelfman, who had loved Bogotá¡ as an American Field Service student in 1961, the culture and landscape of Colombia as well as the diverse, subtropical world of Miami are important influences, along with her strong ties to New York.
Gelfman has had more than 40 solo shows. Her first solo show was a prize awarded by Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in 1974, then under the leadership of Arnold Lehman. Since then, Gelfman has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. Recent solo exhibitions include Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman (2018-19) Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami; sometimes random (2017) Marisa Newman Projects, New York City; sometimes random (2016) Noguchi Breton, Miami; dying the grid (2015) William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe; trued surface (2014), Dimensions Variable, Miami; scapes (2012), The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University (FIU), Miami; sand (2012), Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami; between (2009), Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami; cloud/water/sand (2010), Luminaire X, Miami; react (2006), across (2003), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; resist/react (2006), Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York; 18 paintings (2003), Suite 106, New York.
Loni Johnson - Biography
Loni Johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Miami. Her work varies from painting, drawing, and sculpture to performance and installation. Johnson uses her work to explore how Black women occupy spaces, redefining how Black women navigate spaces that were not created for them. She works through how they grieve, love, and feel. Johnson's performance and installation works focus on the reactivation of feelings of community as well as ancestral and historical memory. Johnson is an artist, an educator, a mother, and an activist that understands that as an artist, there is a cyclical obligation to give back and nurture her communities with her creative gift, utilizing it to better our world.