Dual Frequency: 2017 South Florida Cultural Consortium Award Exhibition Zenalogo
Dual Frequency envisions artist initiatives to steer creative culture in support of their communities. Many participating artists curate, organize, perform, and teach as expansions of their individual practices. This exhibition activates the Art and Culture Center with interdisciplinary work from 14 preeminent South Florida artists selected to receive awards in 2017 of either $15,000 or $7,500. These awards are among the largest of such honors accorded by local arts agencies to visual and media artists in the United States. The South Florida Cultural Consortium is the largest government-sponsored grant program for artists living in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties. It provides significant support to individuals who contribute to the cultural fabric of a vibrantly expanding arts community with no strings attached.
Dual Frequency envisions artist initiatives to steer creative culture in support of their communities. Many participating artists curate, organize, perform, and teach as expansions of their individual practices. This exhibition activates the Art and Culture Center with interdisciplinary work from 14 preeminent South Florida artists selected to receive awards in 2017 of either $15,000 or $7,500. These awards are among the largest of such honors accorded by local arts agencies to visual and media artists in the United States.
The South Florida Cultural Consortium is the largest government-sponsored grant program for artists living in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties. It provides significant support to individuals who contribute to the cultural fabric of a vibrantly expanding arts community with no strings attached.
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Julian Yuri Rodriguez is a Miami-based<br />
filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist.<br />
With a strong commitment to community<br />
engagement, Rodriguez explores notions<br />
of masculinity, his own Cuban heritage,<br />
and perceived assumptions about the<br />
culture of <strong>South</strong> <strong>Florida</strong>. Recent films and<br />
multidisciplinary projects include Lake<br />
Mahar (2014), which he wrote and directed,<br />
and Somos Chavalos (2013). Rodriguez<br />
also wrote and directed Paisajes de Mi<br />
Abuela, a virtual reality/documentary<br />
experience which incorporates<br />
contemporary footage of Cuba linked<br />
with his grandmother’s memories<br />
of living there decades earlier. The<br />
project received recognition at the<br />
2014 Borscht Film Festival. Rodriguez<br />
received the Sundance Knight<br />
Foundation Fellowship (2014) and<br />
the Miami New Times MasterMind<br />
<strong>Award</strong> (2014). Four of Rodriguez’s<br />
films were screened as part of the<br />
2016 Borscht Film Festival.<br />
Marla Rosen is an artist and curator<br />
who lives in Davie and is the co-founder<br />
of the Miami-based alternative exhibition<br />
space In Real Life (IRL) Institute. Rosen<br />
works often with immersive installations<br />
incorporating colored light and reflective<br />
surfaces that alter the viewer’s perception.<br />
Rosen’s practice, since 2014, has been<br />
largely collaborative with her partner Eddie<br />
Negron, working mainly under the name<br />
NegronRosen. She was born in Los Angeles<br />
and received her BFA in Sculpture from the<br />
University of <strong>Florida</strong> in Gainesville in 2014.<br />
Selected exhibitions include Don’t Abandon<br />
Puerto Rico, Maravilla Norte, Puerto Rico<br />
(<strong>2017</strong>); Invisible Realities; Miami (<strong>2017</strong>); and<br />
Quit This City: A Post Millennium Thing, Miami<br />
(2016). Rosen has received multiple awards and<br />
scholarships, including the University Scholar<br />
<strong>Award</strong> and an Honorable Mention in the 2013<br />
Juried Student Show at the University of <strong>Florida</strong>.<br />
Barron Sherer is a Miami-based artist<br />
and co-founder of Obsolete Media, a<br />
repository in the Design District for 35mm<br />
slides, archival motion-picture materials, and<br />
other legacy media. His large-scale installations<br />
appropriate found imagery, often from cinema,<br />
and reference his experience as an archivist and<br />
researcher. Sherer received his BA in Media Arts<br />
from the University of <strong>South</strong> Carolina in 1991. Selected<br />
exhibitions include; Barron Sherer 15 Second Cinema, Howe<br />
Library, Hanover NH (2016); Wind in Our Wings, Placeholder<br />
Gallery, Miami (2016); ScreenDance Miami, Pérez Art Museum<br />
Miami, (2016); and Stop Resisting, Swampspace Gallery, Miami<br />
(2015). Sherer has organized and produced cultural events including<br />
Jonas Mekas in Miami, Palm Court (2016), and is the Co-Founder of<br />
Obsolete Media Miami (2015-present). Sherer is also the Co-Director<br />
for Jim Drain’s Pleated Gnomon video project, Village of Key Biscayne<br />
(2016). Selected awards include “Best Alternative Art Space: Obsolete Media<br />
Miami,” presented by the Miami New Times (2016), and “Best Film Festival,<br />
Cinema Vortex,” also presented by the Miami New Times (2005).
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