DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Dana Donaty (b. Columbus, Ohio), Colombian-American, raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After twelve years of living in London, England, Dana relocated to South Florida. She is currently completing her MFA at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

Through a research-based interdisciplinary approach Donaty’s work explores women-centered experiences, the complexities of identity, and the challenges of inequality. She infuses her maximalist, color-pumped playground-like aesthetics with humor mirroring life's absurdities and exposing culture's dark side by subverting the intended use of materials. Similarly, in prior work, gigantic canvases depict larger-than-life human figures imposed on a playground of tiny fantastical creatures, speaking to the paradoxes of freedom and equality in an out-of-scale, absurd world.

Selected solo shows: The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Fl, The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, Fl, and Paul Fisher Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl. Selected group shows; The Armory Art Center in Palm Beach, SVA Gramercy Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, The Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL., The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL, The Audrey Love Gallery Miami, FL., The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, The Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; and The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA. Art fairs: American International Fine Art Fair, Scope, Red Dot, Art Palm Beach, and Art Boca Raton. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Government agencies, and private collections in the US and Europe.

She has an artistic lineage that includes maternal family members, notably, her mother, her aunt-painter Esther Cárdenas, her cousin-painter Santiago Cárdenas, and her grandfather Eduardo Cárdenas, who was invited to emigrate to the United States as the first editor of Selecciones del Readers Digest [Spanish version of Readers Digest]

Daniel Marosi Miami Beach Artist

 

Daniel Marosi Miami Beach Artist

Daniel Marosi is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines words and phrases that are both ubiquitous and ambiguous.

By overlapping repeated layers of text, Marosi appropriates phrases from sermons, advertising, music, and media to create paintings and sculpture that combine formal aspects of abstraction and graffiti.

Daniel Marosi is a resident artist at Studio 18 Art Complex in Pembroke Pines, Florida and the recipient of two Broward Artist Support Grants. His work has been featured at numerous international art fairs and Miami art institutions. In addition to a rigorous art practice, Marosi runs the award-winning design studio Creative Order, producing commercial environments for live media and broadcast television.

YOCHI YAKIR-AVIN Miami Beach Artist

 

Lobby Art Gallery
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YOCHI YAKIR-AVIN Miami Beach Artist

I have been exploring and expanding my artistic practice by moving from figurative painting to include and incorporate contemporary object-making and installations. This is an exciting shift, as it opens new possibilities for expression and experimentation.

As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore different materials, techniques, and concepts.

Object-making and installations often require a different set of skills than figurative painting, such as sculpture, installation, and conceptual art. It's important to me to stay open and challenge myself, pushing my artistic boundaries, but also to stay true to my own vision and style. 

Incorporating memories into my artistic practice is a powerful way to explore my own experiences, connect with the audience, and evoke energies to mend fragmented parts of one’s self.

Yochi Yakir-Avin is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for exploring the topic of representation.

Born in Poland and raised in Israel, she now resides in South Florida where she works as a resident artist, instructor, and mentor at Studio 18 Art Complex in Broward County.

Yakir-Avin's academic background includes the study of fine art in both Israel and Italy, where she earned her BFA from the esteemed Brera Academy of Arts in Milan. Her artwork is characterized by a deep interest in the themes of time and memory, particularly in the ways that our personal and collective memories can be shaped and reshaped over time.

As an artist, Yakir-Avin employs a variety of mediums, including installations and 2D works, with innovative use of materials, space, and scale. 

Her work invites viewers to engage with memory, exploring the complexities of how we remember and what we choose to forget, challenging us to question our assumptions about the past and present, and to embrace the fluidity of memory.

Aliya Gordon Miami Beach Artist

 

Aliya Gordon Miami Beach Artist

Aliya Gordon is a printmaker based in South Florida. Gordon earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. In her work, she explores concepts of identity, as well as interpersonal connections and the flow of energy. She uses relief printmaking and mixed media techniques, and upcycles found objects into three-dimensional works.

Gordon’s works have been featured in exhibitions throughout Florida. In 2014, several of her paintings were displayed in a privately curated exhibition at the Gallery of Amazing Things in Dania Beach, Florida. After completing an inspiring study abroad program in Italy in 2018, Gordon exhibited her work at the University of North Florida’s Lufrano Intercultural Gallery in 2018. Most recently, her 2019 large scale relief print, The Flow and Overflow, was displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida.

Throughout my work, I explore concepts of identity, escapism, growth and reflection, and interpersonal connections. Visualizing how energy can flow on the physical plane between people and things as well as the intangible energy of thoughts and emotions. I use tools and imagery from personal rituals to resist the social norm of hyperproductivity in order to gain success. I am inspired by my personal history and multifaceted identity as a Black queer femme, tarot and oracle card imagery, as well as nature, everyday objects, and personal symbolism. My work can be visually simple at times, but the intention and expression is complex. 

I primarily use relief printmaking techniques to create, emphasizing the time and intention put into these compositions. When a piece leads me to it, I incorporate mixed media into my work. During my time in University of North Florida's Fine Arts program, I learned many different mediums and techniques, such as screen print, three-dimensional fabrication with wood and ceramics, various drawing media, and painting techniques. Though I devote most of my creative energy towards printmaking, I am a learner and explorer by nature and love learning new techniques to incorporate into my practice.