It is one thing to feature an exhibition from an individual or a collective in an art gallery.  Most exhibitions consist of pieces of work which are brought in, set up, and later dismantled and moved to another space, or...

French-born artist Alice Raymond is up to some clever tricks over at the Dimensions Variable (a 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner) alternative art space. She has built a unique wooden structure, raw and unfinished on the outside, smoothed over on the inside, which...

Do you know Domingo Castillo? If so, then you probably checked out his recent exhibition Duets at Dimensions Variable in the Design District. If you don’t know him, you might have ended up outside of the gallery, alone, banging to get inside, experiencing the...

Lisa Slominski’s cerebral solo at Dimensions Variable explores the malleability of memory and how we store, retain, and recall information in the high-speed digital age. Her installation “Dreamy Nomads, Baby” incorporates light boxes, floor sculptures and a suite of flocked screen-prints on...

I am constantly thinking about being in a recessive economy and how my art practice will survive through it. I am profoundly amazed at the consistency in finding myself pushing the same Sisyphean rock over and over again. But, I...

​Magnus Sigurdarson has always been a bit of a maverick in his multi-varied art practice, creating works ranging from photography exploring notions of identity to massive installations employing eight tons of salt and industrial fans to recreate an Icelandic tempest. In...

Sometimes, works of art are so attractive, so compelling, that you just have to move closer and hope they are as complex as they are good looking. Throughout the last year, Dimensions Variable, a Knight Arts Challenge finalist for 2011, has...

When first looking at Marcos’ paintings they appear to be lazy and unresolved. There is a feeling of awkwardness and weirdness. The series of seven paintings made up of 32 to 34 inches square for Dimensions Variable, look bleached or...

When Catalina Jaramillo’s You Are Always Here opened last month, the floorboards of the exhibition room at Dimensions Variable were lined with craft kits, hair brushes, old View-Master discs, piles of folded clothes and dozens of jigsaw puzzles that had been assembled, broken down and...

Everybody has a personal life that no one else has access to or cares to notice. Like our “to do” lists or old credit cards. When someone dies, the world gets a peek into those private matters and a fuller picture...

In a statement on The Outer Limits, a collaborative work by Miami artists Felice Grodin and Samantha Salzinger, the artists describe their installation and video as a disruption or perforation in the fabric of the aesthetic universe of the white...

Around a month ago a new exhibition space called Dimensions Variable opened in Miami’s Design District (171 NE 38th Street). Founded by Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly and Wendy Wischer, whose art studios it fronts, the space’s mission is...