Museums presenting artists from around the globe

Local visual arts museums have current and upcoming art exhibitions, presenting artists from around the world.

Running through June 28 of next year, PAMM at 1103 Biscayne Blvd. is showcasing 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.

On display through Jan. 11, “Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-Based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection” brings together more than 100 works by over 50 international artists. The artists come from all over the planet but artists from Latin America and the African diaspora play a significant role. Celebrated artists who have made innovative works of art for decades, such as Marina Abramović, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman and Thomas Struth are featured alongside artists like Jonathas de Andrade, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Ana Mendieta and Vik Muniz, among others who have been presented at the museum frequently in the past.

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.

Running through March 16, 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.

Debuting Nov. 19, The Bass Museum of Art at 2100 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach is presenting “Lawrence Lek: NOX Pavilion,” with imagines that reflect the world we live in today, as technologies like artificial intelligence increasingly shape daily life. His works take the form of computer-generated films, sculptural installations, video games, and sound pieces, combining them into immersive story worlds. At the center of his practice are intelligent machines – self-driving cars, AI programs and robotic figures.

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 fairs, combining and animating images of iconic structures from 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century expositions. Reimagining 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 dialog with the collection exhibition “World’s Fairs: Visions of Tomorrow.”

Until Feb. 14, The Lowe Art Museum at 1301 Stanford Drive presents “Imagined Worlds: Landscape and Narrative in the Lowe Art Museum’s Old Masters’ Collection,” Ever since Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi and polymath Leon Battista Alberti popularized the drawing technique of linear perspective, Western artists have conceived of paintings as illusory windows onto imagined worlds. The depiction of landscapes serves a variety of functions. Small-scale human figures are accessories to dramatic scenes of billowing clouds and crashing waves. In other paintings, the landscape establishes a sense of place for human-centered religious narratives.

On view through March 14, “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.

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