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10/15/2026

Super honored and excited to have played a small part in bringing the latest work of Isabel Gonzalez to fruition! This interactive installation will be our first stop on this Saturday’s gallery crawl (sign up via link in stories or DM) 🌾
“The Third Life is an ephemeral installation that asks viewers to slow down and pay attention to the ground beneath their feet. The title alludes to a creative rebirth, according to Gustav Theodor Fechner, who described existence in three stages: the first in the womb, the second in earthly life, and the third in life after death.
The materials employed, Sabal Palmetto (the Florida state tree) and Cypress Tree trunks from the Everglades, speak of place. For the artist, the connection between the geography of the work and its creation is key. Gonzalez hopes visitors develop an intimacy with these materials and begin to ponder nature’s own laws and timing. Her work draws on vernacular architecture and ancient forms of building, where structures are in conversation with their natural surroundings and with the sacred. Gonzalez collaborated with a builder from the Seminole Tribe to bring the structure to life. The builder learned the craft from his father as a young child and has carried on that legacy professionally ever since.” 🌾See this incredible work and follow Isabel Gonzalez

09/15/2026

Exited to announce that the latest US Latinx Art Forum collection of essays is now live. I was honored to write about a work I first saw The Ringling and which, after months of research, fundamentally changed the way I see and write about art. This June I was lucky to join Sandy Rodriguez on a panel Hispanic Society. 🗺️
“Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez’s Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico (2025) reimagines the region’s contested history and questions who holds the authority to name, map, and give meaning to a place. From the early sixteenth century onward, Spanish expeditions into Florida and the Gulf Coast transformed this borderland region into a site of ongoing colonial struggle, one that recent censorship measures and anti-DEI policies have extended to the present day. Blurring temporalities, Rodriguez’s work is not concerned with returning to an irrecoverable past; rather, it enunciates a transhistorical and multitemporal knowledge system. According to Rodriguez, “It is essential to look back at factual histories, paying close attention to those eras where our communities have been targeted, to understand how we protect each other, persist and thrive.” Through Rodriguez’s deep engagement with archival images and her alchemical production of precolonial pigments, the artwork functions as a site of historical inquiry and collective learning. The work resists colonial epistemologies, contemporary forms of censorship, linear historical time, reconfiguring the map as an instrument of critical pedagogy and collective ancestral memory.” P.S. Many thanks to Andrea Lepage for your patience with this lapsed academic!

09/10/2026

End of summer / bday photo dump🫀”Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” -Rilke

09/01/2026

I have a bunch of new followers on ART HANG! For those new followers I want to introduce myself and say welcome. I consider myself so lucky to have met so many new friends through this community of engaged art lovers. On this pensive post bday I am truly to be surrounded by so many kind and generous friends from the art world and beyond. It has not been an easy year, but these past couple of days have felt like a gentle hug from the universe reminding me to always look around and appreciate the people and family that make life joyful. Thank you to everyone who reached out and to those whose generosity and thoughtfulness made my day ever so special. 🫀🌸”Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” 🌸🫀
(pic by the lovely Sarah | Design, Beauty, Wellness)

06/24/2026

I have the act of naming on my mind as I prep for a panel of a Latinx artist at the Hispanic Society this evening. Let’s start with the word “Hispanic” which stems from the Latin word Hispanicus, the adjective form of “Hispania,” the ancient Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula. Linguistically speaking, its use implies that people of Latin American descent living in the U.S. are from Spain. By looping all of us into one monolithic category it white washes and excludes the myriad racial, social and cultural complexity of both the U.S. Latinx population and “Latin” America. It also implies a hegemony of the Spanish language, and ignores the 211 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil, the Haitians who speak creole and the hundred of indigenous languages spoken throughout both North and South America. (Brazil alone has about 186 indigenous languages, Mexico has 67, Colombia more than 65 and Peru has 47.)
Personally I prefer the term Latinx over Latina/o because it is more inclusive, and I agree with Arlene Dávila in her seminal book on Latinx art “the X factor helps to center the experience of Latinx diasporic identities which remain most invisible” in the world of contemporary art. X is a site of intersection that allows space for the inclusion of a diversity people.
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06/09/2026

“Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colours all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?“
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Happy bday to my brave, kind fierce and lovely first born! Making her momma proud each and every day! Love you -here is to yet another year of slaying…

05/05/2026

As Spring slips into Summer there is a shift in Miami and it’s not just the humid and the heat, the pace is slower and more intentional. Join me for a gallery crawl this Saturday as we check out my top pics for what to see this month, it will be the only one this month and it will filled with art history, market insights and fun peeps. DM or email me for more info and to RSVP. This 🌞Saturday 🌼🌸1-4 pm flyer design

05/01/2026

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
-Toni Morrison ❤️🌈🦄🐸🦢🌊☮️🔜

04/17/2026

Girls, they rule the world! Just a Friday shout out to all the inspiring women around me…

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