"Ongoing One hour's drive from the air-conditioned Miami Beach Convention Center lies Everglades National Park, a vast, protected ecosystem of 6,105 sq. km. A wetland where freshwater and saltwater meet, it shelters species found nowhere else and serves as South Florida's natural infrastructure, filtering drinking water, buffering floods and shoring up ecological resilience in a climate increasingly under duress from the bustling metropolises not so far away."
"These two worlds collide in Kat Lyons's Full Earth at Marquez Art Projects (MAP) in Miami Beach, the Kentucky-born painter's first US institutional solo show. Lyons uses the Everglades' past and present as scaffolding for large-scale oil paintings that unfold as part Leonora Carrington, part John James Audubon and part Frans Snyders. Lyons's relationship to the wetland is both personal and literary."
A Miami Beach exhibition installs large-scale oil paintings that use the Everglades' past and present as scaffolding. The works blend influences from natural history illustration and surrealist textures, positioning animals as protagonists while largely omitting human figures. The canvases name native and introduced species — American crocodile, anhinga, rhesus macaques — and render them from memory, introducing malleability and folkloric subjectivity. The Everglades appears as living infrastructure, filtering water, buffering floods, and sustaining resilience. The paintings balance beauty and caution, reflecting material relationships with animals formed through farming, consumption, and caregiving roles.
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