Art museums to offer new installations

Local visual arts museums are getting ready to present new installations and first-time solo exhibitions for all art lovers and enthusiasts to explore.

On Oct. 2, The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) at 1103 Biscayne Blvd. will showcase “Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation” an immersive installation that reimagines color as a lived, bodily experience. Conceived in 1965, the work comprises three interconnected chambers, each illuminated in a single hue: red, green, or blue. Immersed in this monochrome environment, the viewer experiences a kind of retinal overload, confronting the limits of visual perception.

By reimagining color as an embodied encounter, Chromosaturation exemplifies artist Cruz-Diez’s role in the experimental practices of the 1960s and ’70s, which shifted the focus from static art objects to participatory situations that engage the body, the senses, and subjective experience.

Beginning Nov. 13, PAMM will present artist Woody De Othello’s “coming forth by day,” a new series of ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze that explore the primordial relationship between body, earth, and spirit. The immersive installation will feature grounding natural materials such as clay-painted walls and subtle herbal scents.

As Mr. Othello’s first solo museum exhibition in Miami, “coming forth by day” reflects his connection to the city and his ongoing exploration of his ancestral heritage. Through material experimentation and sculptural gestures, the exhibition considers how objects carry history, absorb meaning, and serve as vessels for both spiritual and emotional experience.

Opening on Dec. 2, a major survey for American painter Joyce Pensato opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA, Miami) at 61 NE 41st St. bringing together some 65 works across five decades, including rarely seen works from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Marking the artist’s most comprehensive museum survey to date, the exhibition traces the development of Ms. Pensato’s practice, providing greater understanding of her context and the range of her powerful imagery.

ICA, Miami will also present “Richard Hunt: Pressure,” which is the first posthumous US institutional survey of sculptor Richard Hunt. The exhibition traces the innovation of Mr. Hunt’s sculptural language and his experimentations with form, scale and materiality over more than five decades, and highlights large-scale works in bronze and stainless steel alongside more intimate works and maquettes that engage overtly with the Civil Rights movement and broader themes of social justice in America.

Debuting Nov. 5 at MOCA, North Miami at 770 NE 125 St. in her first solo museum show “Field of Dreams,” artist Diana Eusebio recreates home and draws on natural dyes, family stories, and indigenous plants to bridge personal history, cultural memory, and the global legacy of tradition and trade.

“Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden,” will also showcase 15 years of lush, multi-substrate paintings inspired by Sufi mysticism, global myths, the feminist gaze, and fantastical worlds of sea, land, and sky.

On Sept. 24, The Bass Museum of Art at 2100 Collins Ave. is presenting “Jack Pierson: The Miami Years.” The art installation will be the first exhibition devoted to exploring the city’s transformative impact on Mr. Pierson’s life and work.

Imbued with the aesthetics of punk and advertising, while employing a dizzying array of visual references, his work has included weathered objects, found furniture, and repurposed commercial signage.

Mr. Pierson’s commissioned projects for fashion and style magazines are often indistinguishable from his work made for galleries and exhibitions. Mr. Pierson came of age during the AIDS crisis alongside such contemporaries as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tabboo!, Robert Gober, and Kiki Smith, artists who tapped the era’s sense of impermanence, fragility, and loneliness—all recognizable themes in Pierson’s work.

Being showcased Nov. 26, The Wolfsonian–FIU at 1001 Washington Ave. will present a video installation by contemporary artist Marco Brambilla. “After Utopia” explores the ideas about the future. Mr. Brambilla uses artificial intelligence (AI) and computer graphics (CG) to construct virtual landscapes inspired by world’s fairs, combining and animating images of iconic structures from 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century expositions. Reimagined together and interpreted through new tools, these visual symbols of nostalgia and optimism create surreal scenes. He pulled from the Wolfsonian’s archives to shape his work, which is shown in dialogue with the collection exhibition “World’s Fairs: Visions of Tomorrow.”

On Sept. 19, The Lowe Art Museum at 1301 Stanford Drive will exhibit “How Much A Heart Can Hold,” which explores Petah Coyne’s work as a multifaceted and long-running conversation about the complexity and creativity of women. The installation will be divided into three sections: Women’s Work, Women’s Relationships, and Women Obscured & Transformed.