We invite you to join us at our MDGLCC "Virtual SOCAM (Support Our Cultural Arts Members) Social". This event will be conducted via Zoom with free admission to Chamber members and the community at large. The concept is to provide a virtual networking opportunity where a cultural arts organization of our Chamber interacts with guests. A museum guide or curator will showcase an exhibition and field questions from attendees during the hour long event.
This MDGLCC "V
irtual SOCAM (Support Our Cultural Arts Members) Social" is supported by Bacardi. At the beginning of the event, a Bacardi Brand Ambassador and Mixologist will showcase how to confection your favorite Bacardi drink at home. Our next event is scheduled for Wednesday, February 24th from 5pm-6pm and will be hosted by
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) and presented by Gean Moreno, Knight Foundation Art + Research Center.
We look forward to your participation in this virtual & social networker combined with a cultural & arts engagement. Free raffle of great items among participants including Bacardi product & branded items.
About the Exhibition "Tomás Esson: The GOAT"
Details ?Tomás Esson: The GOAT? is the first solo museum presentation for Cuban painter Tomás Esson. On this occasion, ICA Miami brings together works spanning his thirty-year studio practice alongside a site-specific mural and a commissioned reinterpretation of his early painting installations. From his very first exhibition in Havana in 1988, which was censored and closed by Cuban authorities, Esson has created lively and grotesque paintings loaded with dynamic energy, mythological references, and political commentary. The presentation will include early works, as well as painting from Esson?s ?Retrato? (Portraits) series and his ?Wet Paintings? series. Each of these three bodies of works began in one of the different cities where Esson has lived and worked?the early paintings in Havana, the ?Retratos? in Miami, and the ?Wet Paintings? in New York City.
Tomás Esson (b. 1963, Havana, Cuba) graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, in 1987. His work was showcased in a number of controversial exhibitions in the late 1980s, as he became a central figure in the decade?s renaissance in Cuban art and began to exhibit internationally. In 1990, he left Cuba and has since then lived in Miami and New York City. His work is in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico. This exhibition is organized by ICA Miami and curated by Gean Moreno, Director, Knight Foundation Art + Research Center.