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The artist was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1982 and currently lives and works in Florida, USA. She began her photographic studies in 2009 Roberto Mata Photography Workshop and her exhibition career in 2011. In 2014, she held her first solo exhibition, Caracas Fragmentada, tresy3 Gallery, Caracas. http://gabrielagarciadalta.com/

My parents grew up on farms. One grandmother collected things (kept things) and the other was a Grand Storyteller. Both influenced me greatly. I create sculptures and installations using materials available in a given place at a given time – ranging from things found to collected experiences and retold stories. Often, I’ll alter a space using architectural interventions and enlist the public’s participation in the gathering of materials or through performative interactions. https://www.kerryphillipsart.com

Carrie Sieh (b. 1978, Los Angeles CA) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Miami, FL. Her work is inspired by cultural, geographic, and economic histories; theories of personality, intersectionality, communication, and organization; geoscience; pattern, cryptology and symbolism; thought experiments; game theory; social justice movements; personal narrative, and the ways in which knowledge finds material expression. https://www.carriesieh.net/

While I am considered a veteran seasoned photographer, my specialty has been multiple visual formats that all render 3 dimensional views. I feel that this most closely approximates the reality we see everyday, and in cases of abstract imagery, colors and forms can be presented within a volumetric tableau rather than forced to be collapsed upon a paper or film. http://www.diamondimages3d.com/

For our Culture Cast at Mana Contemporary we spoke with artist Nick Gilmore (@gilmoreworks), collector Dainy Tapia (@art.seen.365) and artist duo Poncili Creacion (@poncilicreacion) at Mana Contemporary (@manacontemporary). Culture Cast is a collaboration between Laura Marsh, curator at Art and Culture Center Hollywood and BABA Collective. Check out our Culture Cast exhibit with Tamara Despujols at 777 International Mall. NEXT: Culture Cast at UNTITLED art fair, Dec 8, 6pm—6:30pm https://untitledartfairs.com/miami-beach/podcast/live

Reginald O'Neal (Miami, Florida 1992) began painting in 2012, soon meeting his friend and mentor, Alejandro Dorda, who would teach him classically. In 2014, L.E.O. took his first trip to Europe to complete murals in Austria, Norway, and Spain, as well as exhibit in a collective show alongside his teacher in Berlin, Germany. In the years since, Reggie has focused on canvas work, residencies, and murals that embody his community surroundings, experiences and beliefs. Work of O'Neal's is held in the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami. He lives and works in Miami and is represented by Spinello Projects. https://www.instagram.com/l.e.other

I work mostly in wood and paper: sculpture, furniture, and printmaking. A focus is the interconnectedness of the natural and built environment. Much of my current work incorporates old growth Dade County pine (pinus elliottii var. densa), an incredible local tree which was logged nearly to extinction by early development. Over 20 years in the construction trades largely inform this work. https://gilmoreworks.com

Valeria Yamamoto is a Japanese-Argentinian sculptor, born in 1975 Buenos Aires, Argentina . She has studied and worked in the field of Graphic Design back in her country. In 2001 she moved to Miami, Florida, where she initiated her career as an artist earning a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in sculpture at the Florida International University in 2008. Currently, she is an artist-in-residence at the Bakehouse Art complex in Miami and has been working and participated in the Simposio2014 Ponte di Ferro Officina D’Arte in Carrara, Italy. http://www.valeriayamamoto.com/

Jaffe’s studio practice and subject matter evolved after her move to Miami in the early ‘90s. The region’s bright hues and subtropical climate made mosaics an optimal medium as she began to pursue larger pieces with a more enduring presence, while continuing to exhibit in group shows at museums and galleries around the country. For the past two decades she has also worked as an accomplished public artist. https://stephaniejaffeart.com/

Michelle Weinberg is a painter who creates art for surfaces, interiors, architecture and public spaces. She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in NYC and her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. https://michelleweinberg.com/

Amanda Bradley was born and raised in Miami, FL where she received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. Currently she holds a studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex as an artist in residence. Her work explores place and landscape as a means to understand and expose histories, relationships and memory. Through photography she navigates the passing of time and the scale of individual in order to form relationships, both familiar and foreign. http://amanda-bradley.squarespace.com/

Lucinda Linderman, a native to Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a recognized environmental artist and enviromental art curator living and working in Miami, Florida. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami in Sculpture and a B.A. in Biology. Lucinda has been a full time artist with works exhibited in juried shows since 2001. From 2001 until 2006, she worked as a master apprentice to renowned constructivist sculptor John Henry, where both her aesthetic sense and technical skills were honed. https://lucindalinderman.com/

In my work, I like to tell stories using symbols which are universal, when you look at my work you could tell your own story, and would interpret what you see in your own way and each work in the series is created to evoke a different moods and emotions. I am exploring abstract appropriated images from our culture and translating these onto the surface of my work. I feel that they address or allude to specific ideals that interest me. It has always been my goal as an artist to make work that speaks to the viewer on a deeper level. http://www.myungnaman.co.uk/

Nicole Salcedo is a first-generation Cuban-American artist born, raised, and based in Miami. Her practice includes the use of illustration, performance, and design to open up spiritual pathways that might heal our connection to ourselves and to Nature. https://www.instagram.com/chachichinikki/

Mahshie’s work makes reference to fashion, pop culture, street swag, and tropical ephemera to highlight the allure of natural and manufactured surfaces. http://www.nickmahshie.com/

renaissance person, facilitator, diva's man http://swampspace.blogspot.com/

Objects are very powerful and can evoke recollections of memories and experiences. Time machines - symbolic, historical, we identify them as a part of who we are or were and assign them significance and value. They can be personal or collective and pass from generation to generation or across cultures. I explores these relationships introducing some viewers to objects that have made the journey through time and reconnecting others to memories of their past. http://www.rivamonterobots.com/

Tamara Despujols, a multimedia artist and architect, women’s rights and social activist, aims to merge both life and art in a most peculiar way, by viewing the interconnection between our bodies and the places we inhabit through the complex thread of thought that conceptually strings together all her works. https://www.tamaradespujols.com/

Pedro Wazzan is a photographer born in Venezuela and currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, FL. https://www.pedrowazzan.com/

My work is a reflection about the specific reality of my country. Usually I use the self-portrait as ways to meditate about the fact of belonging to an island where the collective history and the personal destiny are in very tight relation. http://www.sandraramosart.com/