Personify

Jeanne Jaffe, Elegy for Tesla. Courtesy of Arts and Culture Center, Hollywood.

Art and Culture Center - Hollywood

When inanimate objects reflect cultural concerns, historical narratives, and playful humor, it becomes clear that artists project their impressions of history into figurative works to better understand contemporary society. “Personify” is a family-friendly exhibition that features sculptures, puppets and installations by renowned South Florida artists Pablo Cano and Jim Hammond, plus distinctive installations by Jeanne Jaffe and Gili Avissar.

Pablo Cano is a pioneer among South Florida artists and is regarded as a premier artist in his field of puppetry. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, he has lived in Miami’s Little Havana since, creating puppets, marionettes and performance sets from discarded debris he gets from trash bins, thrift shops, and admirers who support his work. His influences include Cubist bricolage, the color palette of Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter, who assembled marionettes in the 1920s, and the mechanics of the pieces in Alexander Calder’s Circus.

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Jim Hammond received his MA in Puppetry Design from the University of Connecticut, Hammond created Sideshow Productions in 1996 and has since designed personified objects for such clients as Florida Grand Opera, New World Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, and Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In 2002, he worked in the puppet department of Disney’s The Lion King national tour and is past Executive Director of the Puppet Festival of the Americas.

A multi-disciplinary artist who was born in Haifa in 1980, Gili Avissar currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. His body textiles, on view at the show, reflect his time spent in Miami this past spring at the Fountainhead Residency.

Avissar gained his B.F.A and M.F.A at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and since then has been creating large-scale textile installations and videos. Avissar is the recipient of The Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport Prize for Young Artists (2012); The Rabinovich Art Foundation Award (2012, 2010); and the Isracrard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for Israeli Artist (2010).

Jeanne Jaffe presents an installation about the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla in which marionettes hang delicately from the gallery ceiling. Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Independence Foundation, Mino Artist Residency in Japan, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic/NEA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was twice a sculpture discipline finalist for the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Jaffe has had artist’s residencies fellowships at Yaddo Artists Colony, Rutgers’s Innovative Printmaking Workshop, New Jersey Printmaking Council, Schuylkill Center, Yellow Springs Institute, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

The Art and Culture Center is currently accepting reservations for field trips and group tours to visit this show. Through August 18.