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Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami FL 33132

October 15-17

Friday, October 15, 3-6pm
Saturday, October 16, 1-6pm 
Sunday, October 17, Kids JAMM at PAMM, 10-1pm

Saturday, October 16, Press preview with artist from 4-6pm

Antonia Wright in collaboration with Helado Negro
Not Yet Paved



Curated by René Morales
Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator

This coming weekend, come check out a project by Cuban-American Miami-based artist Antonia Wright, titled Not Yet Paved. In collaboration with the musician Helado Negro, Wright converted a concrete truck into one of the largest musical instruments in the world. Bellowing the refrain of Helado Negro’s song “Young, Latin, and Proud,” this performative sculpture celebrates Latinx culture while pointing to the important role played by many Latin American immigrants in building our streets and homes. 

The artist transformed the truck so its belly resembles the marímbula, a ​Caribbean ​plucked​ box instrument ​descended from the thumb pianos that made their way throughout Latin America by way of the African diaspora. Using sound as a political call to action, Not Yet Paved is conceived as a proclamation of pride and dignity, making visible the ethnic, racial, and economic undertones of our country’s labor practices in defiance of surging anti-immigrant nationalism.



Not Yet Paved was made possible with support from Oolite Arts. 

Antonia Wright in front of Not Yet Paved, 2021
Photo by Anthony Spinello

Available works click here ▸
 
Antonia Wright (b. 1979, Miami, FL) Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 as well as at the International Center of Photography for photo and video in 2008. She has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad and has been awarded artist’s residencies both nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include shows at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), The Perez Art Museum (Miami), Pioneer Works (New York), The Faena Arts Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Spinello Projects (Miami, FL), Luis de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SF, CA), Aeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium), The National Gallery of Art (Nassau, Bahamas), and Ping Pong (Basel, Switzerland). In April 2012, she became and founded the first artist-in-residence at the Lotus House Shelter for women and children in Overtown, Miami. She was recently named a CINTAS Foundation Fellowship finalist for 2019 in Visual art. She is represented by Spinello Projects in Miami, FL and affiliated with Luis De Jesus Gallery Los Angeles.

Wright’s work has been presented in publications including The New York Times, Artforum’s Critics’ Picks, Art In America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Daily News, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and The Art Newspaper.
Spinello Projects is a Miami-based contemporary art program founded in 2005. It is a gallery, creative space, and an innovative platform for nomadic site-specific and curatorial projects. Follow us here 
 
For press inquiries and hi-res images, contact gallery@spinelloprojects.com.
For available works contact gallery@spinelloprojects.com or visit Artsy.
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