In celebration of Jared McGriff’s first solo museum exhibition, Where We Are You at NSU Art Museum, join the artist and Commissioner cofounder Dejha Carrington at their private home—an intimate apartment in Miami Beach—to see their humble collection, learn about collecting on a budget, and to consider how to frame and place art.
This event is open to Collectors. Capacity is limited, first come, first served. The address will be provided a few days before the event. Public parking options are within 10-minutes walking distance of the address. Ride-sharing and carpooling are encouraged.
RSVP essential.
About the exhibition at NSU Art Museum, Fort-Lauderdale
Where We Are You, solo exhibition by Jared McGriff, on view November 27, 2021–February 23, 2022 at NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale.
Curated by NSU Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, Jared McGriff: Where We Are You showcases the artist’s dreamlike narratives that remain timeless even as he integrates his family’s history into the realities of the present. This exhibition contrasts paintings that suggest contemporary snapshots of the artist’s present with paintings that conjure the real and imagined experiences of his family’s migration from the rural South to the rural West of Oklahoma and California. This juxtaposition of past and present reflects how contemporary times are shaped by the historical.
The title, Where We Are You, encapsulates notions of African Ubuntu philosophy where the individual becomes whole through the experience of the group. Jared’s composition of single and grouped figures embodies the guiding principle for many early cultures that each individual’s actions impact others and society.