Friends of Laundromat 
Orgranized by: Sophia Ballesteros & Ross Karlan
December 1 — January 5 

 

Founded nearly a decade ago, Laundromat Art Space is one of Miami’s most important studio and exhibition spaces, offering eleven subsidized studio spaces for fourteen resident artists. In addition to offering a home to Miami talent, Laundromat offers consistent programming from emerging and mid-career artists, young curators, open-call exhibitions, and a number of other community-oriented events.

The current exhibition, Friends of Laundromat, seeks to highlight the sense of community that lies at the heart of Laundromat’s existence; it is a celebration of the space’s commitment to being an active part of the fabric of Miami’s art scene, while reaching institutions, collectors, and colleagues around the world at the same time.
The show features 19 local artists at various points in their careers, each of whom has supported Laundromat Art Space in some capacity; through applications to open calls, participation in previous exhibitions, support of our events, or aiding in fundraising efforts over the years. While almost all of the artists are currently based in Miami, the diversity of the group includes over ten represented countries and a wide array of aesthetics, mediums, and cultural traditions.
 

The curators, Ross Karlan, Sophia Ballesteros, and director of Laundromat Ronald Sanchez, have thus curated the show by grouping various artists together to highlight the intellectual dialogues between them. Fernanda Froes, Hander Lara, Harumi Abe, Diana Eusebio, and Ernesto Kunde, for example, all explore the natural environment in their work, while conceptual artists Marisa Tellería, David Correa, and Javier Martín deconstruct concepts of materiality and visual poetics. Jodi Minnis, Joan Jimenez, and
Sydney Rose Maubert tackle questions of race and community, while Juan Pablo Bohorquez and Santiago Rubino reimagine surrealist aesthetics through a fresh contemporary lens. Finally, Kristina Reinis, Isabella Rodriguez, Nelson Jalil, Victoria Martinez, Joaquin Stacey-Calle, and Alejandra Gotera, each express varying degrees of figuration and abstraction. Each of the works are small-format and offer an accessible point of entry for any collector, whether you’re brand new to collecting or a seasoned
buyer. 

 

During Miami Art Week, the exhibition will also be accompanied by a new large-scale mural by Madrid-based multi-disciplinary artist group Boa Mistura and, of course, Laundromat’s resident artists’ open studios, the cornerstone of our community. Visitors to Laundromat Art Space will therefore have the opportunity to engage with our resident artists as they browse the works on view.