2023-2024

Carmen Smith is a visual artist based in South Florida. She is an Associate Artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. Originally from St. Augustine, FL, she moved to Miami in 2008 after she studied fine art and design in Virginia. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, VA, where she was awarded the Academic and Creative Excellence Award. She has participated in more than 15 juried shows and fairs, including the 8th Annual All-Media Juried Biennial (Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 2017) and Spectrum Art Fair (Miami 2017). Known for her intensely colorful paintings of tropical urban architectural scenes, she had been included in several group exhibitions including The Portfolio Review Series, Coral Gables Museum (Miami, 2019) and Everything Old Is New Again, Superfine! NYC Art Fair Curated Gallery (New York, 2017). In 2021, she held a solo exhibition, “Night Swimming”, at Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA). In 2022 she exhibited in her first museum show at the Coral Springs Museum of Art in a two-person exhibit, “Rushing Down.” In 2024 her solo show, “Color Pools,” exhibited at Imago Cutural Center in South Miami.

Maria Theresa Barbist was born in Schwaz, Austria and lives and works in Miami, Florida. She translates traumatic memories and emotional states into performative actions, moving pictures and sculptural objects. Barbist holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Innsbruck and received her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Selected Solo exhibitions include KINDERLAND (2019), Taplin Gallery, Miami, Florida, FADENSPIELE (2015) Swenson Gallery, Miami, Florida and LEBENSBILDER – Life in Pictures (2013), Studio 16 Gallery, San Francisco, California. Selected group exhibitions include at the Diego Rivera Gallery, ‘Echoes: From There To Here’ (2019), at the Neue Galerie Home Is Where The Heart Is (2018) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Intersectionality in South Florida (2016).

Anna Miorelli was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She holds two master’s degrees: one in Landscape Architecture and one in Anthropology. These fields have deeply influenced her self-taught artistic practice. She began painting during her 5 year stay in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2018. Her work uses expressive symbols which hold compound, ambiguous meanings, both personal and collective.

Her artistic practice is deeply monastic, like a nun or a priestess, in its devotion to something greater, being channeled through her, rather than identifying with the works being created out of her own design. She sees painting and walking as modes through which to communicate and create relationships between worlds of the interior unconscious and the everyday material world. She sees her practice as a bridge between these elements. A soulful practice