Join us on Sunday, April 10 from 2—5 PM for a curated afternoon at KDR305’s recently opened exhibition Florida Room No1, featuring 24 artists, writers, and makers in an eclectic sunroom setting. Kindly RSVP.
Florida Room No1 acts as a survey of subtropical artists living and working from Miami and beyond. Inspired by the Greater NY show at MOMA PS1 that assembles artists from the metropolitan area, this exhibition celebrates a snapshot of Floridian artists' uncanny and familiar “humid” thread they all share through various practices in an intergenerational grouping.
KDR305 is housed in a structure from 1920 which lends itself as a perfect setting for this show. Weather like hurricanes, hot vaporous summers, and mild winters have permeated through these untraditional walls of the sunroom (now a gallery) for the last 102 years. Thematically the artworks overall range from the organic, nautical, historical, fantastical, sometimes problematic, political, climate-related, floral, fauna, folklore, underwater, over water, of course, the beauty, and most of all the quirkiness that is the peninsula!
The exhibition is framed in the John James Audubon engraving of the Roseate Spoonbill, a species of particular concern in Florida. Serving as a beautiful reminder of the ecological fragility of this majestic state. Florida Room No1 most of all encapsulates the feeling of Florida as it is a special place all the artists call home, rain or shine.
Participants: Jason Arles (b.1983), Zack Balber ( b.1983), R. Beans ( b.1986), Kelly Breez ( b.1985), Autumn Casey ( b.1987), Beatriz Chachamovits (b. 1986), Max Ferro (b.1985), Naomi Fisher (b.1976), Raymond Fort ( b.1988), Rodrigo Gaya (b.1987), Adler Guerrier (b.1975), Islandia Journal (est. 2019), Justin H Long (b.1980), Carly Mejeur (b.1986), Nicole Mijares (b.1990), Jessy Nite (b.1985), Ian Patrick O'Connor (b.1982), Brett Olivieri ( b.1986), Lauren Shapiro (b.1984), Paul Anthony Smith (b. 1988), Magnus Sodamin ( b.1987), Cornelius Tulloch (b.1997), Alexandra T. Vazquez (b.1976), Purvis Young (b.1943-2010)
Rideshare is encouraged as there is little public street parking.
Image courtesy of KDR305: R. Beans “Swamp Griffin”, 2022, pen on mulberry and map paper, 9 x 12 inches.