Fractured Landscapes & Cloning the Ghost Opening Reception

Join us for the opening reception for our two new contemporary exhibitions – the collaborative show Fractured Landscapes with Cara Despain and Emanuel Tovar, and Cloning the ghost by Javier Barrios. The opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. on March 6 and will feature a live performance.

Supported by a grant from Funding Arts Broward, Fractured Landscapes features site-specific installations by Utah/Miami-based artists Despain and Guadalajara-based Tovar. Each artist incorporates a variety of actions, including fire, video, and photography, that utilize such materials as rock, carbon, sand, and wood to articulate the fragile beauty of their natural environments.

Mexico City-based artist Javier Barrios’s exhibition Cloning the ghost is inspired by Susan Orlean’s classic non-fiction book The Orchid Thief (1998).  Barrios places himself as one of the characters in the book, an orchid enthusiast, collector, and traveler, searching for the ghost orchid, a rare orchid species that only grows domestically in the Fakahatchee Strand near Naples.