Miami Art Exchange is please to invite you to the exhibition “DIRT Yuta Suelo Udongo Te,” curated by Onajide Shabaka. This exhibition investigates the notion of dirt, as a literal, physical substance itself, as art material, and as a psychological notion pointing to pollution, personally and ritually.

The artists take on the notion of dirt, or pollution, and investigate with a variety of media and approaches. There is a challenge facing this exhibition. Statements about life, death, history and the ephemerality of it all are loaded with symbolic baggage before you do anything with them. Visual artist and curator Onajide Shabaka wanted to ask artists to take up the challenge and investigate various aspects of dirt, and certainly not all on the physical level.

Participating artists:

Dona Altemus – mixed media
Edouard Duval Carrié – painting
Robert Chambers – mixed media sculpture
William Cordova – mixed media
Veronica Scharf Garcia – sculpture, photography
Mark Hahn – photography
Alette Simmons Jimenez – mixed media
Lori Nozick – sculpture
Kim Nicolini – photography, drawing
David Rohn – photography, performance
Onajide Shabaka – mixed media, drawing
Jovan Karlo Villalba – painting, sculpture
Debra Wilk – poetry