In celebration of the tremendous creative energy of the local artist community, Miami Art Museum will present recent and newly commissioned work by approximately a dozen Miami-based artists in New Work Miami 2013. On view from November 21, 2012 through May 12, 2013, the exhibition will highlight the diverse and innovative practices of Miami’s artists, featuring site-specific installations, sculpture, painting and photography. The exhibition will be among the last presentations in MAM’s current facility, marking the 12-month countdown to the Museum’s reopening in fall 2013 as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in a new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Museum Park.

New Work Miami 2013 is indicative of the strong bond that has formed between the Museum and the city’s artists. It encapsulates MAM’s dedication to supporting the local artistic community, while signifying the vital role that the Museum will continue to play in nurturing the growth of the arts in Miami.

   Consuelo Castañeda (b. 1958, Havana) and Emmett Moore (b. 1988, Miami) have been invited to create an immersive environment within MAM’s plaza-level gallery that responds formally and conceptually to works by each of the other participants.

  Gideon Barnett (b. 1981 Jasper, Tennessee) employs the language of traditional documentary photography to create quasi-anthropological, conceptual projects that examine Miami’s unique cultural landscape.

  Bhakti Baxter (b. 1979, Miami) presents a series of paintings drawn from images of masks and figurines from around the world; the work explores the ways in which visual conventions and cultural beliefs influence our collective understanding of human history.

  Sinisa Kukec (b.1970, Zagreb) uses found furniture, resin, pigment, graphite and other materials to create sculptures that display jewel-like effects while teeming with oozing, organic surface textures.

  Odalis Valdivieso (b. 1969, Caracas) employs experimental digital photographic techniques to subvert modernist painterly traditions.

  George Sánchez-Calderón (b. 1967, New York) and Tom Scicluna (b. 1974, London) will create newlycommissioned outdoor works.

  Loriel Beltran (b. 1985, Caracas)

  Moira Holohan (b. 1976, New York)