ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Dindga McCannon grew up in Harlem and began her career studying with Harlem Renaissance artists including Jacob Lawrence, Charles Alston, Richard Mayhew, and Al Loving at the Art Students League of New York and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She went on to become a pillar of the influential African-American art collective Weusi, and later a co-founder (with Faith Ringgold) of Where We At, a groundbreaking collective affiliated with the Black Arts Movement. A pioneer of mixed-media quilting, the artist’s signature works combine painting, sewing, and found materials, and focus on the stories of women — iconic public figures, unknown heroines, family, and friends who shape her vibrant universe. McCannon’s works are in the public collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Phillips Collection, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others.

Remy Jungerman (b. 1959) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He studied at the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Education in Paramaribo, Suriname, and later at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. For over three decades, Jungerman has explored the intersection of Surinamese Maroon culture, the African diaspora, and 20th-century Modernism. His work incorporates materials such as cotton textiles, kaolin clay (pimba), and wood—elements central to the Afro-Surinamese Winti religion. Using ritual textiles and gridded compositions, he reflects on spiritual symbolism and the elemental forces of water, earth, air, and forest. Jungerman represented the Netherlands at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and was the subject of a major survey exhibition, Behind the Forest, at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2021–2022). In 2022, he received the prestigious A.H. Heineken Prize for Art.

Nate Lewis’ signature paper-carving techniques explore connections among the visual languages of dance, anatomy, medical diagnostics and weather-pattern data. Nate Lewis earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and practiced critical-care nursing for nine years. Lewis’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yale Center for British Art, and in Men of Change: Power, Triumph, Truth organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, and other institutions. He has lectured at Yale University as part of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute.

Naomi Lisiki is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Originally born and raised in the French West Indies, Naomi aims to express a sensation, to encapsulate the experience of living into the painting form. Inspired by systems of nature, she expresses the inherent qualities of life that she felt language could not encapsulate. Working within abstraction, she channels her emotions to explore ideas around womanhood, spirituality and philosophy. In this way, she is able to express her “internal landscapes”, proposing a new narrative of her life and identity as a woman from the Caribbean diaspora. As our personal histories are entangled within larger structures, her abstraction comes from sensations, sensations that are shaped by collective memory, by ancestral history, by erasure and reconstruction. Resembling cyanotypes or alternative printing processes, the colors and delicate shapes in her paintings may remind one of landscapes, bodies, repeated shapes in nature and are meant to act as visual memories.

UNTITLED ART MIAMI BEACH