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10/02/2026

For all the reasons, looking forward to this evening’s intimate view of Common Skin Fantasy with artists Alicia Bilbao and Alejandra Moros at Katia David Rosenthal Gallery. 🫴🏾

Common Skin Fantasy marks the first time the two artists’ works have existed in dialogue, and show up in uncanny ways that reflect the scope of both practices. An artist-in-residence at Tunnel Projects since 2023, alicia bilbao creates sculptural figures from artificial and organic materials, ranging from epoxy clay and resin to tufts of her own hair and animal pelts. alejandra moros, who exhibited in the residency’s Project Room over the summer, is represented in this show primarily through painting. Her work explores transformation across psychological, ecological, and collective systems, as well as—in the words of Catherine—the “mirrored possibilities of fiction.”

🫳🏾 As we continue to ask ourselves what cultural infrastructure means—and what our role is in shaping its tools and building blocks—we’re excited to connect with Bilbao and Moros, whose work directly engages with materiality and physicality. A whole journey inside.

Images courtesy of the artists and gallery.

10/02/2026

10/02/2026

Morel Doucet: The Things We Carry at University of Miami | Lowe Art Museum is an invitation to think more deeply about where we are and how we got here. Situated on a Florida university campus, the exhibition is a quiet storm—a tempest for the season.

“The teapot becomes a vessel shaped by colonial histories of trade, extraction, labor, and ritual. Its indigo blue traces a chromatic passage between Africa and the Caribbean, recalling a pigment bound to histories of cultivation, commerce, forced labor, and cultural inheritance across the Atlantic. Across its surface, flora grows alongside small brass flies. Gilded and persistent, the flies become witnesses to what empire leaves behind—drawn to beauty, sweetness, decay, and survival…”

— Morel Doucet®, Season Three commissioned artist
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A Garden Between Shores: Indigo Tea, 2026
Slip-cast white earthenware ceramic
10 × 7 × 4.5 in.

On view through March 2028 at the Lowe Art Museum, in partnership with the City of Coral Gables. Photography courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis.

10/02/2026

Sometimes we fall in love with the way a painting makes us feel, and that feeling tells us about being human.🌹

Ema Ri
Heather, 2026
Oil on canvas
72 x 59 1/2 in

Image courtesy of Fredric Snitzer Gallery

09/27/2026

Ancestral Currents by Ania Freer (A n i a F r e e r) and Cornelius Tulloch creates a tree Island Sanctuary in the Platform Section of The Armory Show—a tall field of grass invites a pause. 🍃

In recognition of 25 years of supporting artists at the intersection of art and the environment, AIRIE.Foundation | Art + Environment is bringing the outside in.

“Here, visions of Jamaica and the Greater Everglades converge, revealing landscapes shaped by movement, resilience, and survival. Film, performance, sound, and natural materials create a setting in which water carries memories of migration and enduring connections…

Ancestral Currents features performance by Miami-based Arsimmer McCoy and Kunya Rowley. Botanical Landscaping developed in collaboration with Saint Agnes Studio. And a custom designed furniture piece by Ishka Designs.“

🌱Over the years, AIRIE Foundation and artist, global creative director, and commissioned alum CORNELIUS TULLOCH have consistently invited us into their world—from wet hikes to the Big Cypress Dome, to our annual fête at thecarterprojectmiami, and now, The Armory Show. Thank you for having us. Next stop: Venice!

09/25/2026

Earlier this summer, we had the privilege of getting an inside look at Lisu Vega’s work at her studio in North Miami. Today, The Armory Show announced Lisu Vega is the 2026 Pommery Prize winner. 💐💐💐

Presented on Platform with Gladwell Projects, “A Momentary Whole, 2025”, is a monumental forty-foot textile installation around which an entire presentation l takes shape.

Here’s another rare glimpse into Vega’s practice, courtesy of the gallery—

“Vega begins with an expansive family archive, scanning and reworking birth certificates, license plates, wedding photographs, domestic scenes, and images spanning generations of her family. Rather than organizing these records chronologically, she brings them into a layered field where distant moments meet and overlap.

Strands of deconstructed rope are sewn directly onto translucent poly silk, forming branching networks inspired by the roots of a mango tree planted by Vega’s late grandmother in Venezuela. The scanned archive is then photographically transferred across this tactile surface. As images move between silk and rope, faces, gestures, and fragments of text shift in clarity, allowing the archive to behave as memory does: nonlinear, unstable, and shaped as much by absence as by preservation.

Weaving is both material process and conceptual structure within Vega’s practice. She brings images and ephemera into relation just as she knots, binds, and accumulates rope within her sculptural totems. Photography and textile become inseparable carriers of memory.”

If you’re at The Armory Show this weekend, we encourage you to linger in Vega’s maze—a series of woven sculptures and intimate passages through which viewers can encounter the archive from within.

Lisu Vega
A Momentary Whole, 2025
Photographic transfers on handwoven textiles made from repurposed rope
40 × 20 ft (1219.2 × 609.6 cm)

📍Platform: Passages and Thresholds
Curated by Jovanna Venegas Jovanna P. Venegas
The Armory Show 
September 24–27, 2026
Javits Center, New York

📸 by Sebastian Garcia, courtesy of Gladwell Projects. Thank you Zee Lopez Del Carmen Carolann Annie Alt ArtSeen365 for putting us on.

09/24/2026

Fairs everywhere and we’re still dreaming of Detroit. 🌸
Earlier this month, we had the honor of sharing our story and dreams in a keynote at Season Fair’s Talks program, presented by Modern Ancient Brown Foundation with ARTPOWER at College For Creative Studies.

We were deeply inspired by panels featuring Detroit-based collectives and organizations such as Bulk Space Cezanne Charles and ps_detroit313, and artists and curators including Mario Moore, RICKY WEAVER, and Taylor Renee, among many others.

Especially refreshing was the ease with which portals and time travel were utilized as tools for strategic planning: “Cultural work is imagination work—it’s about how we imagine further...”

Imagine what is possible when we gather, break bread, and do the delicious work of laughing and connecting with each other (yeah we threw a pizza party!)? As we prepare to launch our first commission in Detroit since 2022—a buy-in open to anyone anywhere—we’re grounded by the remarkable thinkers and builders who are already leading the way.

🌹 A special thank you to Amani Olu Olu & Company. Deepest gratitude to Emilia Howard | Commercial Leasing MAD Arts E T I E N N E C H A R L E S, who traveled in support of our Detroit adventures. And thank you to all the artists and art workers for the warm embrace. Photography by 𝓪 𝓶 𝓶 𝓲 𝓮 𝓵 🖤.

09/16/2026

“When thinking of ‘What is it when a work hits?’ The only answer I can truly stand behind is that the work has to be personal. Of Ivory & Flesh inhabits the physical and metaphorical personal distance between me and the work, the space where desire, expectation, resistance, and repetition take form.”
— Luna Palazzolo-Daboul (luna palazzolo-daboul), commissioned artist alumna

🩶 There’s no place we rather be on September 17 at Primary.. Grateful for the opportunity to preview Of Ivory & Flesh by Palazzolo-Daboul with new members. Plus, it’s orientation night where we get to share, connect, and shape the program that we want to experience together.

If you’re a Season Nine member and can’t attend orientation, register for the virtual edition on Friday at 12 PM at commissioner.us. A recording will also be made available.

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09/15/2026

Collective memory should be written in future tense.

Earlier this spring, Commissioner with Pioneer Winter Collective and Maven Leadership Collective, hosted Searching for Collective Memory—a screening, performance, and panel conversation at in Miami Beach.

Inspired by ’s film Vagabondia (2000), we examined what’s at stake and who gets a say in determining what we value most—

Featuring:
Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Lauren Baccus, practitioner, MOCA director of education and community engagement
Cecilia Benitez, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Darryl Brown, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Dejha Carrington, Commissioner co-founder and executive director
Vanessa Charlot, photographer and professor at the University of Mississippi
Gabri Christa, Grass Stains mentor
Corey Davis, Maven Leadership Collective founder and creative director
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, filmmaker
Lisa Kusanagi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Lauryn Lawrence, photographer and curator
Arsimmer McCoy, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Nicole Pedraza, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Veronica Pesantes, Art Hang founder
Lise Ragbir, writer, curator, and cofounder/CEO of VERGE
Hattie Mae Wiliiams, Grass Stains artist-in-residence
Pioneer Winter, Pioneer Winter Collective founder

Searching for Collective Memory was organized by Commissioner, and made possible with generous support from Maven Leadership Collective and Art Bridges Foundation Access for All Program. Pioneer Winter Collective’s 2026 Grass Stains cycle is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Deep gratitude to The Bass Museum of Art and their dedicated team. Film by .

Together, we’re changing the way communities shape collective memory by examining what is at stake and who gets a say in determining what we value most.