Sixteen must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

""If I connect to it, I know the viewer is also connecting to something as well. I haven't analysed it too deeply, but I think I'm connecting to everyone's inner self-to their childhood. I know I'm just having fun, but I'm dealing with the American icon. They have to be more than Mickey Mouse with a lobotomy.""

"The 50 artists featured in this exhibition trace a lineage through Brazil's Modern and contemporary art, from Lygia Clark's geometric rigour and Anna Bella Geiger's conceptual irony to Adriana Varejão's beautiful and wounded painted bodies and Rosana Paulino's acts of repair. Their works confront patriarchy and colonial legacies, turn embroidery and clay into dissent, and reclaim materials once dismissed as craft."

""Where most women artists have been underestimated or ignored, a significant number of Brazilian women have distinguished themselves and even defined new artistic canons," says Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, the exhibition's curator. Mulheres brings together generations of women whose practices echo across time, artists turning the materials of daily life into tools of resistance and beauty. In their hands, Brazil's history unfolds not as a single narrative but as a field of gestures, each one expanding what art and authorship can mean."

Pensato selects characters that possess deeper resonance connecting to viewers' inner selves and childhood. Fifty artists map a lineage through Brazil's modern and contemporary art, linking geometric rigor, conceptual irony, painted bodies, and acts of repair. Works confront patriarchy and colonial legacies, transform embroidery and clay into dissent, and reclaim materials once dismissed as craft. A significant number of Brazilian women have distinguished themselves and defined new artistic canons. Mulheres assembles generations that turn daily-life materials into tools of resistance and expand notions of art and authorship. Jack Pierson merges advertising aesthetics with punk sensibility to explore queer embodiment across multiple media.

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