Situated on Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is the city’s most significant art museum, offering dynamic exhibitions, tours, and educational programming. OBM worked with PAMM to develop a dual-sided architectural spectacular that feature coordinated lighting elements. Designed by celebrated firm Arquitectonica, the elegant, diaphanous tower evokes local flora and is carefully positioned to maintain sight lines to the museum’s existing architecture. This public-private partnership generates a new stream of earned income and presents artwork to a broad public throughout the year.
Views From Miami
Views from Miami is a curated program that features Miami-based artists who work around the idea of landscape, featuring artists Adler Guerrier, Anastasia Samoylova, and Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal. This program encompasses different mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, and digital images, revealing the breadth of ways that people interpret and picture the landscape. Many of these artists are focused on South Florida— ranging from the sun-soaked urban day-to-day of Miami Beach to the green, moody wilds of the Everglades to the verdant flora that populate suburban homes. Other artists turn their sights to contexts that are further away, such as the deserts of the American West or the jungles of Venezuela. Views from Miami highlights Miami’s vibrant arts community with attention to shared critical themes that inform artists’ practices.
This program is curated by Diana Nawi in conversation with Pérez Art Museum Miami. Diana Nawi is an independent curator and serves as a curatorial consultant for Orange Barrel Media.
Adler Guerrier
Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending age of post-demography.
Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami, FL, where he received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts. Guerrier recently had a solo exhibition at Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL. He has exhibited work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Harn Musem of Art, Gainesville, FL; and The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times and ARTNews, among others.
Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-born American artist who alternates between observational photography and studio practice. In 2024, her exhibition, ‘Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans,’ will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition coincides with the release of Samoylova’s career-to-date monograph, Adaptation, published by Thames & Hudson.
Upon relocating to Miami, Florida, in 2016, she pursued observational photographic practice, leading to her lyrical and incisive first major monograph, FloodZone, which formed a study on the visualization of environmental threats posed to flood-risked communities in Miami and beyond. In her Floridas project, she gestures toward the state of Florida itself, forming a kaleidoscopic and contradictory portrait of how the state’s unique cultural and political psyche manifests in visual form. In 2021, Samoylova began Image Cities, in which she trained her lens globally within some of the world’s most significant urban centers while examining the images that cover their surfaces.
Her recent exhibitions include C/O Berlin; V&A Dundee; Fundación MAPFRE Madrid and Barcelona; Amerika Haus Munich; George Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; and Kunst Haus Wien. In 2022 Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Samoylova received the Ellies Creator Award, Fundación MAPFRE Photography Award, South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant, British Journal of Photography Grant, and South Arts Fellowship.
Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; among others. Published monographs include FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), Floridas (Steidl, 2022), and Image Cities (Fundación Mapfre/Hatje Cantz 2023).
JESÚS EMMANUEL VILLARREAL
Jesús Emmanuel Villareal has been recognized for his artistic abilities since his early teen years in Miami, Florida, where he studied at the South Miami School of Arts while taking additional studio instruction with Abdon J. Romero. He earned his B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore in 2006, and then spent three years studying and graduating from The Florence Academy of Art. Upon returning to America, the artist started teaching at The Silvermine Arts Center, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and was a guest lecturer at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Later also teaching at the brand new branch of The Florence Academy of Art in New Jersey. Over his career, Villarreal has won numerous awards, scholarships, and honors, including the coveted Grand Prize in the 2011 Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, the Art Renewal Center’s Annual Scholarship Competition, and The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant among others. He has shown his work in several group and solo exhibitions in America and abroad. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and is currently showing at Forum Gallery in New York. He lives and works in Miami, where he serves as the Director of the Visual Arts Magnet Program at South Miami Middle School.