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For the first time, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, invites audiences to experience its South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition through artist-led group tours, offered on select dates and times each month. These intimate walkthroughs pair participating artists with curators, offering visitors a deeper, more personal understanding of the work on view. Grounded in dialogue and firsthand perspective, each tour opens new pathways into the exhibition, shaped by the artists’ own insights, processes, and lived connections to the work.
Tour 1: Ecology and Environment with Mark Delmont, Luke Jenkins, and Amanda Linares
Co-curators Kimari Jackson and Laura Novoa present a tour featuring artists Mark Delmont, Luke Jenkins and Amanda Linares, whose practices converge in their treatment of Florida’s ecology as both subject and collaborator. Each artist approaches the natural world through a different temporal register, yet together they propose a shared understanding of place as cyclical, animate, and continually remade.
Mark Delmont’s diptych of twin figures safeguarding the swamp opens this conversation through ancestry, stewardship, and the human responsibility to landscapes that have provided sustenance, both physical and spiritual, over generations.
Suspended above the gallery, Luke Jenkins’ lamp, with surfaces carved with termite forms, picks up that same sense of continuity from the opposite end, evoking the gradual processes of erosion and consumption that quietly sustain natural systems beyond human intervention.
Amanda Linares carries these concerns inward, constructing a fragmented domestic landscape in which tile, concrete, and detailed graphite drawings of botanical forms blur the threshold between the built environment and nature, suggesting that the outside world is already present within the architecture of daily life.
Collectively, these works encourage visitors to perceive place not as a mere backdrop, but as a living presence: generative, vulnerable, and deeply intertwined with the histories of those who inhabit it.
For the first time, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, invites audiences to experience its South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition through artist-led group tours, offered on select dates and times each month. These intimate walkthroughs pair participating artists with curators, offering visitors a deeper, more personal understanding of the work on view. Grounded in dialogue and firsthand perspective, each tour opens new pathways into the exhibition, shaped by the artists’ own insights, processes, and lived connections to the work.
Tour 1: Ecology and Environment with Mark Delmont, Luke Jenkins, and Amanda Linares
Co-curators Kimari Jackson and Laura Novoa present a tour featuring artists Mark Delmont, Luke Jenkins and Amanda Linares, whose practices converge in their treatment of Florida’s ecology as both subject and collaborator. Each artist approaches the natural world through a different temporal register, yet together they propose a shared understanding of place as cyclical, animate, and continually remade.
Mark Delmont’s diptych of twin figures safeguarding the swamp opens this conversation through ancestry, stewardship, and the human responsibility to landscapes that have provided sustenance, both physical and spiritual, over generations.
Suspended above the gallery, Luke Jenkins’ lamp, with surfaces carved with termite forms, picks up that same sense of continuity from the opposite end, evoking the gradual processes of erosion and consumption that quietly sustain natural systems beyond human intervention.
Amanda Linares carries these concerns inward, constructing a fragmented domestic landscape in which tile, concrete, and detailed graphite drawings of botanical forms blur the threshold between the built environment and nature, suggesting that the outside world is already present within the architecture of daily life.
Collectively, these works encourage visitors to perceive place not as a mere backdrop, but as a living presence: generative, vulnerable, and deeply intertwined with the histories of those who inhabit it.
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