Miami-based artist Clara Varas presents “Between Memory and Desire” in Dimensions Variable, an exploration of both the artist’s personal history and the precarity of the human condition. Varas migrated to the U.S. and counts herself among the one-and-a-half generation who came of age in the U.S. and she utilizes personal household items, found objects, and industrial materials to illustrate the experiences of Miami’s Latinx, Caribbean, and immigrant populations. “The Commonplace of Things” is a solo project from New York City- and Miami-based artist Marcos Valella that combines everyday objects like fishing lures, pushpins, and bed sheets with open-source, drip painting techniques to create hooded, handled paintings that raise the question of where’s the line between art and other stuff you purchase.
