A Space to Have A Space: Juliana Bukowitz and Roberto Montes de Oca
On view December 5th-12th during Miami Art Week 2024
“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness” – John Muir
In this exhibition, we are juxtaposing the works of two artists, Juliana Bukowitz and Roberto Montes de Oca, who reach toward universality through completely disparate lenses, one earthbound and the other cosmic, and who lead us to reflect within and without.
And we are not asking for a passive viewing or a cursory nod. Rather, we are asking the viewer to move through the earthy, elemental reminders and invocations of our planetary home in the work of Bukowitz and from these activations of memory and birthright, to project the mind’s eye toward the celestial perspective brought by Montes de Oca.
Bukowitz, mixed media on canvas, 2024
This movement seeks to evoke a spectral interference in the viewer, as if infra-red operators signaled the viewer through to visible light arrays and culminated in gamma infused frameworks each prompting a new confrontation, asking for a new solution. And this confrontation is not AND/OR but seeks to find new operators within us, within that “star-stuff” contained within us that Carl Sagan so famously alluded to, and that was so inspirational to Montes de Oca in this series.
Montes de Oca, acrylic on canvas, 2023
So this Miami Art Week, let’s claim a space a to have a space. In such fragmented times, let’s turn the tatters of our attention toward these marks, each in turn a guide, the reassuring yet beguiling strata of Bukowitz’s compositions like the heavy tow of our own ionic boundaries, our vibratory framework on the verge of being hacked. And from this vulnerable, venerable bio-space, let’s borrow Montes de Oca’s imaginary Webb telescope to project into time, to reflect as our ancestors reflected. Or maybe even to reflect with our ancestors, somewhere in the antiquity of now.
GG Art Space and AnEyeDiary would like to thank the Historic Dorn Building for hosting this exhibition.