Carol Jazzar Miami Beach Artist

 

158 NW 91 Street

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Tel: 305 490 6906

Carol Jazzar Miami Beach Artist

Becoming an artist has been a long and slow process, with my creative journey starting in childhood.  In our backyard, in France where I grew up, I would spend afternoons making elaborate dresses and headpieces with the garden leaves and flowers. At the time, this was simply called “play”; but that first creative impulse redefined and manifested itself when I started an alternative wear clothing line called “Chains Addiction”. I designed and hand-made unique items using metal supplies, mesh, rings and hooks, that I sold to individual and selected stores.  

Upon moving to Miami to pursue my design work, I came across the visual art world when I rented a room from a print dealer. Through the artworks  my landlord was selling - Warhol,  Lichtenstein, Mimmo Rotella, etc -, I became familiar with and acquired  knowledge about Art and the love for it.  A few years later, I stopped my design work and began curating exhibits, first in unorthodox venues, bars, restaurants, furniture stores, then. finally  my ‘own space’, in a free standing converted garage adjacent to my house.  This unique and creative project soon became popular among other leading galleries in the Miami art community. I represented a tight roster of artists, including Jen Stark, Robert Huff, Shoshanna Weinberger, KUHL & LEYTON, David Rohn, Jorge Pantoja….some of them have now attained national recognition.  

​And as life has a way to direct us to whenever is necessary, a recent period of upheaval prompted me to close the gallery and to refocus on my own creative work. I resumed writing and photography and began a new chapter dedicated to exploring and further developing my creative potential.

photographs

“Ode to Nature (part I)” is a series of 100 photographs depicting our Florida landscape, with a focus on the details of the local luscious trees, plants and flowers. Most of these photographs were shot in my neighborhood of El Portal and Miami Shores. The complete series will comprise 1,000 photographs.