ARTURO E. MOSQUERA THE BIG BANG
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On view through June 1, 2025
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RELATED PROGRAMMING
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April 13: Center Sessions painting workshop inspired by music, nature, and the work of Arturo E. Mosquera
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May 17: Guided Tour of the exhibition in partnership with Hollywood Artwalk
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June 1: Final day exhibition tour including a guided Mindfulness Practice
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The exhibition is made possible in part by Funding Arts Broward and Dr. Arturo F. and Liza Mosquera.
Vibrant colors, confident brushstrokes, and rhythmic compositions embody the paintings of Arturo E. Mosquera. When looking at the work, the texture of the paint and the saturation of the pigment come together to form a symphony of sounds in the mind of observer. Whether drawing inspiration from the natural world as in his Pandemic Landscape Series and The Grand Teton National Park Series, from Michealangelo’s Sistine Chapel, from Comic Books, or from other artists that he admired, Mosquera created a visual language that is uniquely his own. This exhibition features over 50 paintings by Mosquera, and also includes some of the artists’ drawings, sketchbooks and works featured in the Mosquera Collection.
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Arturo E. Mosquera (1982 – 2022) Born in Memphis, Tennessee, lived/ worked in Miami, FL. He attended Manchester College, Connecticut, where he concentrated in printmaking. Mosquera became interested in graffiti in his teens and his work, attached to this mode of expression, touches on dreams, death, love, beauty, friendship, and the imagination.
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Select Individual and Group Exhibitions Include: I AM NOT A POET, curated by Angela Valella, The Saladrigas Gallery at the Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, Florida, 2024, Chance, FLAG PROJECT curated by William Cordova, Bridge Red and under the bridge art space, North Miami, Florida, 2024; AIM Biennial 2023 organized by William Cordova, Marie Vickles, Gean Moreno, and Amy Rosenblum-Martin, Analogon Skin produced by Odalis Valdivieso and Joseph Wakeman, video editing by Adrian Cameron, Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, New York, 2023, The Bluprnt curated by Robert Chambers, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, Florida, 2023, This could be Heaven or this could be Hell curated by Angela Valella, Farside Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2022, Concerning The Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection curated by Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, and The Saladrigas Gallery at the Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, Florida, 2022
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
On View Through
Fri., September 30, 2022
CHARLES JACKSON ADKINS JR.
SUGGESTED SUMMER READING
Located in Gallery 3, Charles Jackson Adkins Jr. “Suggested Summer Reading” is a reflection on the ongoing censorship of literature found primarily in school systems throughout the nation.
Sat., Aug. 28 - Fri., Sept. 24, 2021
Exposed turns art patrons into art buyers during a fun and exciting night in which every ticket holder goes home with an artwork. This exhibition features over 70 artworks donated by artists for a thrilling closing-night.
Sat., Oct. 16, 2021 - Sun., Feb. 27, 2022
T. Eliott Mansa:
On Memory and
the Radical Black Imagination
Collaborations
Fri., June 5 - Sun., August 15, 2021
Artists + Identity:
Portraiture, Performance, Doppelgängers,
and Disguise
Fri., June 5 - Fri., Sept. 24,2021
Masks: From
the Faces
of the World
Collection of
Dr. Donna L. Goldstein
Sat., March 6 - Sun., May 16, 2021
The work of Javier Barrios at first appears seemingly decorative; flowers, landscapes, and beehives are made in intricate detail. But beyond the surface, they carry social and political undertones in their fictitious narratives. His drawings, sculptures, and installations are heavily research-based, incorporating geography, vegetation, and story-telling. His exhibition at the Center, Cloning the ghost, speaks to the relationships between human beings and nature, artist and work, as it stems from the artists’ three-year obsession with orchids.
Sat., March 6 - Sun., May 16, 2021
The Center presented Fractured Landscapes with Cara Despain and Emanuel Tovar. The exhibition reveals work by two individual artists, Utah/Miami-based Despain and Guadalajara-based Tovar, that use similar methods to create formal and performative work that carry diverse meanings and themes. Despain and Tovar both approach a variety of actions such as fire, video, and photography using materials including rock, carbon, sand, and literature to articulate the fragile beauty of their natural environments.
Sat., Aug. 29 - Sun., Oct. 25, 2020
Rosa Naday Garmendia: Not So Far Away - No Tan Lejos remarks on the longstanding historical divisions between Cuba and the United States and is relevant to larger conversations about the shared experiences linked to the global dispersal of refugees and asylum-seekers, of erecting boundaries and border crossings, of voyaging, and the fault-lines and states of emergency – in a deeply divided world. The work investigates and respects both the complexities and the resilience of the immigrant experience.
Sat., Aug. 29 - Sun., Oct. 25, 2020
The project features an original gallery exhibition of a newly commissioned short documentary video directed by award-winning filmmaker Freddy Rodriguez. The exhibition will include artifacts from the Stonewall Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors and wall text by Hollywood-based author Julie Marie Wade.
Fri., Nov. 6, 2020 - Sun., Feb. 21, 2021
2020 FLORIDA BIENNIAL:
NOW is the time /
The time is NOW
Paul Shortt and
Noelle Mason awarded
Artist Select solo exhibitions
during Biennial
Sat., June 6 - Sun., Aug. 16, 2020
Time to Play, a family-friendly exhibition of works by local and international artists that incorporates both visual objects and immersive art to encourage forms of play through education and creativity. From Modernist kinder play to current methods of virtual gaming, visitors are welcome to observe and relate to contemporary art through a dynamic lens.
Sat., Aug. 29 - Fri., Sept. 25, 2020
Exposed featured more than 70 contemporary artists in an exhibition that culminates with a closing-night draw that never fails to produce an adrenaline rush. Names are drawn one-by-one and when your name is called you choose any work of art that has not yet been selected. Everyone is a winner at this one-of-a-kind art event.
Wed., Sept. 30 - Sun., Oct. 25, 2020
MAKE an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with the disabilities life has dealt them, these artists all find their most powerful voice through art. Using the simplest of materials, they each produce work that is both sublime and at the same time completely their own.