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Warp & Weft: In-Person Exhibition

The City of Pembroke Pines and the Frank Art Gallery are pleased to present 'Warp & Weft: Illuminating Seams of Cultural and Conceptual Articulation. In celebration of The Frank's public reopening, Warp & Weft will be on display from July 15, 2021 – September 25, 2021.

The City of Pembroke Pines and Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery present Warp & Weft, an in-person exhibition showcasing contemporary fiber techniques and works of diverse media that engage rich textile traditions. From saturated tapestries woven from paper to paintings inspired by ethnographic textile motifs, the works in this collection function as vital visual documents encoding deliberate responses to notions of identity, class, gender and belief. Each work is presented as an evolved matrix of meanings and materials; an intricate system of correspondences punctuated by personal data and permeated with evidence of hand and body. Exhibiting artists include Pip Brant, Regina Durante Jestrow, Amanda Madrigal, Evelyn Politzer, Santiago 'Chago' Rodriguez, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Carrie Sieh, Kim Spivey and Frances Trombly.

The Third Space Gallery at The Frank highlights works by selected artists of Fiber Artists-Miami Association (FAMA), an artist-initiated group dedicated to the advancement of contemporary fiber techniques and textile arts. The Frank Aisles features a solo exhibition by Michelle S. Drummond.

In celebration of 'Warp & Weft,' The Frank is hosting free virtual art workshops and lectures. Please visit The Frank's virtual classroom here to access this free art education content!

Camouflage & Collaboration: Virtual Exhibition

The City of Pembroke Pines and the Frank Art Gallery are pleased to present Camouflage & Collaboration, an interactive 360° virtual exhibition and tour!

This collaborative art exhibition is made possible through a partnership with Clay County Public Schools and Arts4All Florida, a not-for-profit organization that supports and champions arts education and cultural experiences for and by people with disabilities. Every year, Arts4All Florida coordinates a statewide 'My Art My Way' artist in residence program for students with and without disabilities in public schools. The Frank is honored to be Art4All Florida's Visual Arts Museum Partner for Broward County. Over the course of six weeks, teaching artist Raymond Jimenez taught visual art lessons at Clay County’s Tynes Elementary that were inspired by The Frank's virtual exhibition 'Biological Futurism.' In celebration of this inclusive artistic program, The Frank constructed a dynamic virtual exhibition in which the students' works have encompassed the gallery space to create a bold biological ecosystem defined by their personal experiences and instincts.

Learn about Arts4All Florida and access available resources and programs here: www.arts4allflorida.org

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Explore Our Previous Exhibitions Via Virtual Tour!

Bruce Beasley: In Pursuit of Form and Feeling

The exhibition may be over, but Bruce Beasley: In Pursuit of Form and Feeling is still viewable via an interactive 360° virtual tour! Navigate through the virtual exhibition, below!

Co-curated by Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Director | The Bruce Beasley Foundation
Produced by Samuel Lopez De Victoria, Director | Interactive Initiative

From May 20 through July 8, 2021, The City of Pembroke Pines and the Frank Art Gallery hosted a solo exhibition that centered on the exploration of shape within the gravity-free studio of sculptor Bruce Beasley. Through virtual reality technologies that record the spontaneous movements of his arms and hands, the artist creates and directs an unbridled flow of shapes just as a conductor conducts music. These captured forms are released from the interference of gravity and are suspended in virtual three dimensional space at the artist's will, enabling Beasley to move, stretch and intertwine gestures until some emotive resonance emerges from within the arrangement. With this purist ambition at heart, the artist seamlessly translates an otherwise techy VR methodology into a natural tool for intuitive mark-making. After sixty years of strict loyalty to working only in three dimensions, Beasley’s VR-induced two dimensional collages reveal a refined mode of sketching that oscillates naturally between the classic modernist concerns of form and process.

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Bits & Pieces: Virtual Exhibition and Tour

The exhibition may be over, but Bits & Pieces is still viewable via an interactive 360° virtual tour! Navigate through the virtual exhibition, below!

From February 18 through April 30, 2021, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery hosted Bits & Pieces, an exhibition that explored layered ideas, lamination of contrasting styles, and paintings within paintings. Bits & Pieces reinterprets the practices of collage and assemblage –both in terms of technique and conceptual framework- in the unexpected context of a virtual space. With a focus on artists who utilize cropped and fragmented imagery in their artistic production, this collaborative project disassembles and recombines existing works of art to create a new conversation about authorship, representation and subjectivity.

Featured artists include Jason Aponte, Diego Gutierrez, Jefreid Lotti, Jackie Tileston, Jonathan Ryan Harvey, and Third Space solo artist, Twyla Gettert. This virtual exhibition is a curatorial collaboration with South Florida-based art and technology organization, Interactive Initiative.

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Biological Futurism: Virtual Exhibition & Tour

The exhibition may be over, but Biological Futurism is still viewable via an interactive 360° virtual tour! Navigate through the virtual exhibition, here!

From November 5, 2020 through January 30, 2021,The City of Pembroke Pines and the Frank Art Gallery hosted Biological Futurism, which invited guests to venture into an immersive world inspired by scientific illustration and the adaptive capabilities of nature. Presented via a 360° interactive tour, Biological Futurism highlights the work of artists Judith Berk King, Georgeta Fondos, Lisa Haque, Andy Lomas, Lisa McCutcheon and Gretchen Scharnagl. This virtual exhibition is a curatorial collaboration with South Florida-based art and technology organization, Interactive Initiative.

Challenging the divide between art and science, Biological Futurism explored topics of hybridization, environmental biology and cellular interaction through art. Evoking memories of curio cabinets within archetypal science museums, The Frank reinvented itself as a vast display case brimming with scientific specimens – all of which are imagined, reconstructed, or transformed. Freed from the boundaries of the canvas, biological organisms danced across gallery walls and escape the constraints of time and place.

In celebration of 'Biological Futurism,' The Frank hosted free virtual art workshops, lectures, tutorials and storybook readings. Please visit The Frank's virtual classroom here to access this free art education content!

The Academy: Virtual Exhibition & Tour

The exhibition may be over, but The Academy is still viewable via an interactive 360° virtual tour! Navigate through the virtual exhibition, here!

From February 13 through August 8, 2020,The City of Pembroke Pines and the Frank Art Gallery hosted the first ever major exhibition by the Academy of Portrait & Figurative Art at Florida International University's Department of Art +Art History. This classical atelier is led by its founder, David Chang, a classically-trained artist, professor and chair of the department. Since its inception, many of FIU’s most talented students and alumni have become a part of this unique and competitive experience at the university, establishing it as a leader of visual art in higher education. It remains the first of its kind at a public university in the nation.

Please enjoy our virtual exhibition experience here, as well as our virtual workshops, lecture, and programs, here.

Funding for this organization is provided in part by Broward County Cultural Division, Culture Builds Florida, Hello Sunny-Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center and Visitors Bureau and National Endowment for the Arts.

Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.