The Bass Museum of Art presents “Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years,” running from September 25, 2024, to August 17, 2025, showcasing nearly three decades of work by the New York-based artist in her first major hometown exhibition. Feinstein’s art spans sculpture, painting, video, performance, and installation, focusing on themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and societal influences on identity. The exhibit features immersive environments, like the new site-specific installations “Panorama of Miami” and “Old Cutler,” which delve into Miami’s cultural and architectural history, reflecting the city’s juxtaposition of natural beauty with urban decay. These works explore the interplay of artifice in art, drawing from Miami’s vibrant yet conflicted identity, and integrating influences from art history, folklore, and popular culture into a narrative of transformation and illusion.
Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years / The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December 1, 2024.
Exhibition text (excerpt):
Feinstein’s exhibition includes a new site-specific commission Panorama of Miami (2024), a massive installation of painted mirrored wall panels spanning thirty feet, where the artist explores how Americans and U.S. society absorb and appropriate European culture. Akin to the eighteenth-century panoramic wallpapers developed by Jean Zuber and Joseph Dufour, this modern-day tropical setting pictures the Miami region with its contradictory marks of sophistication and decadence, exuberance and decay. The architectural assemblages merge space and time with architectural styles culled from local history, from the Hotel Breakwater on South Beach’s Ocean Drive, to the Atlantis Condominium of Miami Vice fame, to the original Parrot Jungle, Miami Seaquarium, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Biltmore Hotel, and the long-closed Miami Serpentarium.
Feinstein has often created enveloping environments that serve as exhibition scenography, at times incorporating wallpaper into her projects. Old Cutler (2024) is another new site-specific work commissioned by the Bass on view in the exhibition. Here viewers step into the representation of a lush landscape, initially rendered in charcoal on paper and then transformed into this room-scale wallpaper. Its design draws from an archival photograph of Old Cutler Road, a historic, banyan-lined thoroughfare in Miami intimately associated with Feinstein’s memories of growing up in South Florida.
Feinstein’s vision of Old Cutler straddles a balance between enchanted and troubling, reminiscent of the foreboding dark forests that often serve as backdrops for fairytales and folk stories. The towering trees, thick brush, and twilight conjure a landscape brimming with the capacity for transformation, where beauty and fantasy veil potential danger and unease. Welcoming visitors into the exhibition, the work functions as a kind of liminal space between the exterior and the artist’s interior world.
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