Artist: Ellen HarveyTitle: Atlantis, 2019Medium: Etched mirror glassLocation: Miami Beach Convention Center Grand Ballroom Lobby Based on a full-size hand-painted design, Atlantis is directly inspired by Miami Beach’s unique connection to the many bodies of water that constitute the larger Florida ecosystem. Visitors to the Miami Beach Convention Center see themselves reflected in a dark …
Artist: Franz Ackermann Title: About Sand, 2018 Medium: Paint Location: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, South East Corner Exterior Walls Franz Ackermann makes vibrant paintings and installations centered on themes of travel, tourism, globalization and urbanism. Ackermann has created large-scale dynamic installations that are built up from individual components comprising paintings, …
Artist: Kevin Arrow Title: Beatles Mandala (Amor=Love), 2014 Medium: Glass ceramic tiles Location: Bandshell Park, Collins Avenue and 73rd Street Kevin Arrow is a resident of Miami Beach. Music and visual culture are a constant source of inspiration for Arrow’s artistic creations. A Mandala is a sacred space, or diagram to envision the world. In …
Artist: Bill Fontana Title: Sonic Dreamscapes, 2018 Medium: Sound and video Location: SoundScape Park Sonic Dreamscapes presents a sound and video installation created for both daytime and evening viewing via SoundScape Park’s sophisticated 72-channel Meyer sound and projection systems. “It is the perfect instrument to create sound choreography inspired by the marine and natural environments …
Artist: Dan Graham Title: Morris’, 2010 Medium: Steel and glass Location: Lincoln Road between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue Dan Graham’s project for the new pedestrian part of Lincoln Road recalls the ‘kidney’ shape of the 1950’s Miami Beach hotel swimming pools. Both concave and convex lenses, the pavilion’s surfaces create mirroring an anamorphic ‘fun-house’ …
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Title: Mermaid, 1979 Medium: Steel, concrete and paint Location: Fillmore Theater, South Lawn, Washington Avenue and 17th Street Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York City, received his BFA and MFA from Ohio State University. He taught art during the 1940s and 1950s before returning to New York as an independent artist made …
Artist: Tobias Rehberger Title: eloquent south pointe park pier gate, 2014 Medium: Aluminum, steel, marine grade paint Location: South Pointe Park, 1 Washington Avenue Tobias Rehberger is a resident of Frankfurt, Germany and an internationally recognized artist whose career began in 1990 and has had over 100 solo art shows in major museums and galleries …
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Artist: Tobias Rehberger Title: obstinate lighthouse, 2011 Medium: Aluminum, frosted glass, LED lights Location: South Pointe Park, 1 Washington Avenue Tobias Rehberger is a resident of Frankfurt, Germany and is an internationally recognized artist whose career began in 1990 and has had over 100 solo art shows in major museums and galleries throughout the world. …
Artist: Elmgreen & DragsetTitle: Bent Pool, 2019Medium: Steel, stainless steel, aluminum, concrete, lacquer, lightsLocation: Pride Park Bent Pool is shaped like an inverted “U” and stands upright on a two-tier plinth. The pool seems to have somehow been lifted out of the ground and stretched into a curved form. With a turquoise blue interior, one of …
Artist: Wendy Wischer Title: Liquid Measures, 2010 Medium: Hand cut blue mirror water glass tiles Location: Washington Avenue and Third Street and Washington Avenue Wendy Wisher’s work is influenced by the natural environment and linked to the human inhabitance of that environment. Ms. Wischer seeks the connecting threads that exist between the phenomenon of the …