MIAMI - PARIS
Artists Represented
Natalia Ocerin
Natalia Ocerin is a London-based artist from Spain. She received her BA from the Politécnico de Valencia, Spain, and her Master’s in Artistic Production from the same university. Human subjects and social issues have marked Natalia’s career from the beginning. In her Master’s thesis, she explored topics related to mental health. It gave birth to the exhibition titled “El Miedo Psíquico y la Arqueología de la Locura”, presented at the Palau de Pineda, Valencia, Spain, in 2014. Natalia participated in two artists residencies in Argentina and Brasil, working with the local communities. Her works have been exhibited in multiple shows in Spain. Alex Slato is honored to present her first show in the United States this September, 2022.
Misha Japanwala
"Misha Japanwala is a Pakistani artist and fashion designer whose work celebrates women's bodies. Her body casts, worn as sculptural garments, blur the lines between fashion and fine art, clothing and nudity, freedom and censorship. Misha's work attempts to reclaim the way women's bodies have historically been depicted in art, and subvert the male gaze and colonist beauty standards from the way we see real bodies. Misha’s work has been photographed and written about in numerous publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and i-D, and she has created custom pieces for women including Cardi B, Gigi Hadid, Halsey and Joy Crookes. She was recently honoured on the Forbes Under 30 List. Her work continues to be an explorative and radical celebration of women, their agency and their bodies." From: https://mishajapanwala.com/pages/about
Sylvia Tenenbaum
"My work revolves around issues of time, heritage, and memory and women. By combining my knowledge of literature and storytelling, I established my own language to tell the stories that have been past through oral tradition. The dialogue is between present and past and how time preserves culture. Using cartography and landscape as a starting point, I situate myself as emissary to voice concerns about land, ancestry, culture, technology and progress. My love for modern art provides a platform to find my voice and experience new levels to share millenary art forms like weaving, tapestry and landscape to create deconstructed pixelated images of today using textile as a medium." From: https://sylviatenenbaum.com/biocontact
Richard Garet
"richard garet works with sound and visual arts. his materials emerge from ontological investigations of background noise and the decadence-and-decay of technological utilities. garet seeks to invert the normative function of background noise from unconscious status to active presence. the images and objects in his work stem from processes and experimentations applied to both outmoded and current technological media that emulate situations that translate material source into abstractions. his works embrace the objectification of the ordinary, repurposed technologies, transposition, articulation of space, nuances of perception, and extended techniques applied to time-based practice. such creations, both conceptual in origin and experimental, embody contemporary life as a filtered experience. garet emphasizes two notions from this experience that inform his work; debris from constant cultural bombardment and the experience of commodification, both being considered by garet to be sensory overload. garet finds further inspiration from observing isolated situations of everyday life and from interactions with found materials that explore further possibilities of automation, discarded utility, function-and-defunctionalization, commodity, and environment. richard garet holds an mfa from bard college, ny. recent projects include ctm festival 2020, berlin, germany; apocalypse at nicola pedana gallery, caserta, italy; four horsemen, maker fair, rome, italy; primitivo, casa hoffmann, bogota, colombia; the festival of the image, manizales, colombia; cifo grants & commissions program exhibition 2017, florida, usa; red-splice, fridman gallery, nyc; sound one, cindy rucker, nyc; periscope, zipper gallery, sao paulo, brazil; screen memory, galerie burster, berlin; midnight moment, site specific work created for the electronic billboards of times square, ny; alusiones, carmen araujo arte, hacienda de la trinidad, caracas, venezuela; meta-residue: input material, space, studio 10, ny; theorem: you simply destroy the image i always had of myself, man· contemporary, nj; adrenalina, red bull station, sau paulo, brazil; international biennial of contemporary art of cartagena de indias, cartagena, colombia; bioderivas, museo de la naturaleza y el hombre, tenerife, spain; queens international, queens museum of art, queens, new york; soundings: a contemporary score, museum of modern art, new york; extraneous to the message, julian navarro projects, ny; the spacious now and the scale of the instantaneous, studio 10, ny; 5x5 real unreal, museum of art acarigua-araure, venezuela; eac: espacio de arte contempor·neo, montevideo, uruguay; fine arts museum of montreal; san francisco museum of modern art; museum of contemporary art of barcelona (macba), barcelona, spain; art museum of puerto rico, san juan, puerto rico; and el museo del barrio, nyc. his sonic constructions have been published through sound art labels such as 23five, and-oar, non visual objects, winds measure recordings, unframed recordings, con-v, leerraum, white_line editions, obs, line imprint, and contour editions." From: https://www.richardgaret.com/pages/about.html
Andrés Michelena
"Born in 1963 in Caracas, Venezuela, he studied Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1981 to 1986 and then in 1992 he received a Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Federico Brandt Institute of Fine Arts in Caracas In 1987 he was the recipient of the Corpbanca Grant. His first solo show, Opus Nigrum in 1989, was the starting point of a series of exhibitions throughout the world in a lapse of more than 30 years, including venues like New York, Paris, Chicago, Atlanta, Madrid, Lyon, Stockholm, Lisbon, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Brasilia, Milano, Barcelona and Tenerife, Los Angeles, Denver, among others. In 2000 he moves to Miami, Florida; marking a turning point on his career. He went from painting to explore new medias, installations and Video Art. In 2006 he won the 4th Prize with his piece No-Thing at the MoLAA Awards, ( Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California). In 2015 received an Honorable Mention at the Rozas-Botrán Awards. He has also participated in special projects as “Planair d’Ete Randezvous de Tableaux des Caribes”, Germany, 2004; VISION: A, Instituto Cervantes (around the world) 2007-2008; 1ra Trienal del Caribe, Santo Domingo República Dominicana, 2010-2011; 1ra Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Merida, Venezuela, 2010; REMEMBERING / PROVIDING / RESISTING, a tandem project with Eugenio Espinoza at Centro Cultural Español in Miami; El dibujo fuera de si, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, (with Magdalena Fernandez and Alejandro Otero). The list of solo projects includes: Fragile Action curated by Roc Laseca, at Ideobox-Saludarte; Elíptico, at Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela, 2016 (in collaboration with Henrique Faria Fine Art); Artists don’t work, I only work with artists, Trinta Galeria, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2019; Re-Collector at Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela 2019, the two, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA, 2020. His works are present in many private and public collections like Estrellita Brodsky’s Collection, Brillembourg-Capriles Collection, Arturo Filio, Arturo Mosquera, Lothar Muller, Miami Dade College’s Collection, JCMAC, and MoLAA’s Permanent Collection, to name a few." From: https://andresmichelena.art/biography