The fifth edition of New Wave Art Wknd will take place from December 2-4, 2022. Further program details will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please reach out to Sarah Haimes at sh@newwave.art with Patron Program, sponsorship, or press inquiries.
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New Wave Art Wknd 2021 took place December 3-5, 2021 and explored the theme Bridging Communities.
New Wave Art Wknd is a non-commercial event featuring robust public programming and a Patron Program itinerary including private collection visits, lunches and dinners, and gallery and museum receptions designed to showcase the flourishing contemporary art scene in South Florida.
Public programs included panel and roundtable discussions by renowned artists and art world players. The weekend’s Patron Program itinerary included intimate studio and private collection visits, and exhibition previews and tours.
2021 Sponsors
2021 PARTICIPANTS
Kim Dacres is a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who uses found tires and rubber from automobiles and bicycles to create sculptures inspired by people and ideas. The core of Dacres’ process involves collecting, wrapping, reassembling, and disassembling tires; eventually treating these materials with spray paint or enamel. Her sculptures are held together using screws and braiding techniques. In this process of material layering, the rubber is transformed into abstract shapes, evoking muscle, bone, skin, and hair.
Fascinated by the complexities of varied personalities in her community, and the fragments of experience that tend to shape perception, Kim is committed to an ongoing practice of representing everyday people of color—exploring the paradigm of entitlement to space, honorifics and monuments.
Photo by Alex Berliner
Kim Dacres
Beth Rudin DeWoody, art collector, and curator, resides between Los Angeles, New York, and Palm Beach. She is President of The Rudin Family Foundations and EVP of Rudin Management. Her Board affiliations include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, and others. She is an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum.
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Laura Dvorkin is the co-curator of The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach. She has worked with the Collection for over thirteen years; organizing exhibitions in the US and abroad and managing large presentations of the Collection at institutions. Dvorkin is also the co-curator of 53 West 53, the Residential MoMA Expansion Tower, New York, and consults on acquisitions for private clients. Laura Dvorkin currently lives and works in New York City.
Laura Dvorkin
Sarah Gavlak
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the world’s leading institution devoted to visual art by artists of African descent. Golden began her career as a Studio Museum intern in 1987. In 1988, she joined the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she launched her influential curatorial practice. Over a decade at the Whitney, she organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions, including Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in American Art, in 1994. She was also a member of the curatorial team for the 1993 Biennial.
Golden holds a B.A. in Art History and African American Studies from Smith College. She has received honorary doctorates from the City College of New York (2009), San Francisco Art Institute (2008), Smith College (2004), and Moore College of Art and Design (2003). In 2010, she was awarded a Barnard Medal of Distinction from Barnard College. That same year, President Barack Obama appointed Golden to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she served from 2010–2016. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Barack Obama Foundation and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and in 2016 received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2015, she was appointed as a Ford Foundation Art of Change Visiting Fellow. Golden is a recognized authority in contemporary art by artists of African descent and an active lecturer and panelist speaking about contemporary art and culture at national and international institutions. Her 2009 TED Talk, “How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change,” examines how contemporary artists continue to shape dialogue about race, culture, and community.
Thelma Golden
Bev Grant (born 1942) grew up in Portland, Oregon and moved to New York City in the 1960s. She was radicalized through the Anti-War Movement and became involved in the Women's Movement and the Civil Rights Movement as an activist, musician, and photographer. Much of Bev Grant's photography documents her involvement with New York Radical Women, featuring political activism and consciousness raising events from1968 until 1972, when she began to focus more on her music. Her exceptional oeuvre, brought together for the first time in Bev Grant Photography 1968 to 1972 published by OSMOS Books, includes photographs of the Black Panther Free Breakfast Program, the Jeanette Rankin Brigade March on Washington, the Miss America Protest, W.I.T.C.H. Hex on Wall Street, the Fillmore East Takeover, the Poor People's Campaign, GIs Against the War, and the Young Lords Garbage Offensive. Grant began taking photographs as part of her participation in demonstrations with the Women’s Movement, and then, as a member of the film collective New York Newsreel, she gained access to spaces and groups including the Young Lords Party, the Black Panther Party and the Poor People's Campaign.
Bev Grant
Rachel Gustafson has worked on an array of Norton-originated exhibitions since joining the Norton Museum of Art in 2015, including The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art (2020) and Oldenburg and van Bruggen: The Typewriter Eraser, A Favored Form (2019) which also became a publication. Before joining the Norton, Gustafson was a fellow at the National Museum for Women in the Arts where she helped coordinate Total Art: Contemporary Video (2014). In 2013, she worked in the publications department of the National Endowments for the Arts, authoring several articles for its national magazine. Gustafson received her MA in Art History from American University where she graduated with distinction in 2014, and published her thesis, Face to Face: A Comparative Study of Identity and Self-Portraiture in the Work of Cindy Sherman and Nikki S. Lee. She received her BA degree from Florida State University in 2007.
Rachel Gustafson
Sue Hostetler is a magazine editor, author and philanthropist. In addition to authoring multiple books, she was previously Editor in Chief of Art Basel Magazine and national arts editor for all Niche Media magazines. Her annual Women in the Art's luncheon, honoring the most influential women working in the arts, became one of the premiere events during the fair in Miami. In 2019, she and her partner co-founded the Sue Hostetler & Beau Wrigley Family Foundation where she serves as president full-time, focusing on parity in the art world, reproductive rights, providing micro loans to small female and minority owned businesses, disaster relief & eradicating human trafficking in the United States. She also sits on the board of several institutions and charitable organizations, including currently the New Museum and the Norton Museum as well as serving as the board chair at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO. She is a former trustee of Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, TX; The Aspen Country Day School; and International Center of Photography in New York City
Sue Hostetler
Ghislain d’Humières is the new Director and CEO of The Norton Museum of Art. D’Humières has served as the Director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Director and Chief Curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, and held leadership positions at other major arts institutions, D’Humières has extensive expertise in community engagement and increasing access to art, expanding public programming, building and caring for collections, and fundraising.
Ghislain d’Humières
Arthur Lewis is a Partner and Creative Director of Fine Arts and the UTA Artist Space at leading global talent, entertainment, and sports company, UTA. A patron of the arts and a significant collector of both emerging artists and Contemporary African American Art, Lewis – who is a member of the board of Governors Otis College Art and Design, on the board of Prospect New Orleans, a member of the National Advisory Committee for The New Orleans African American Museum and is a Global Council member at The Studio Museum of Harlem – is a well-known and distinguished figure in the art world.
Lewis joined UTA in 2019 and during his tenure the Artist Space has exhibited diverse showcases including collaborative exhibitions such as: partnering with Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery for a solo show with Arcmanoro Niles, a solo show for Blitz Bazawule, and most recently, a group exhibition with Galerie Myrtis.
Lewis previously served as Executive Vice President of the New York Design Office for Kohl’s, where he oversaw product design and development. Lewis has also held executive leadership roles at HSN, Hautelook, and Gap Inc., where he focused on brand management, merchandising and product development.
Arthur Lewis
Estelle Maisonett investigates how personal relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity, economic status, accessibility, race, sexual orientation, and gender.
Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican Puerto-Rican mixed-media interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2013 and will be attending the Yale School of Art for her MFA in 2021. She was a 2018 Artist in the MarketPlace Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a 2018 BronxArtSpace Summer Artist in Residence. Estelle has exhibited with Chashama, Silent Barn, Field Projects, Bronx Art Space, El Barrio ArtSpace at PS109, Latchkey Gallery, Longwood art Gallery, The Andrew Freedman Home and SUNY Purchase College amongst others.
Estelle Maisonnett
Ryan McNamara is a Brooklyn-based artist known for blending different practices of dance, theater, and history in his work. His works are often situation-specific, and tend to be collaborative or participatory.
McNamara has held performances and exhibitions at The Kitchen, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, The Watermill Performance Center, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, Performa 13, and The Museum of Modern Art, where his work is in the permanent collection.
Ryan McNamara
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist whose works destabilize historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Born in New York, she grew up in the Dominican Republic, graduating from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales of Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013).
Minaya has participated in numerous residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, BronxArtSpace, Bronx Museum AIM Program, the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Transmedia Lab at MA Scène Nationale, Red Bull House of Art Detroit, Lower East Side Printshop, Art Omi and Vermont Studio Center.
Minaya has exhibited internationally across the Caribbean and the U.S. She is a recipient of an Artadia grant, a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grants, Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Great Prize of the XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, and the Great Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno (D.R).
Photo by Joel Gaal, courtesy Red Bull House of Art 2A studio visit with Joiri Minaya is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Joiri Minaya
Maynard Monrow was born in Hollywood, California and currently lives in New York City. Monrow received his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries including: The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Gavlak Gallery LA and Palm Beach; Booth Gallery, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY and ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005).
He has staged international performances in Rome, Italy, and participated in numerous projects including Ruffian’s Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection and LAX Art’s L.A.P.D. Billboard Project.
Maynard Monrow
Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum. For more than thirty years, she has devoted her career to engaging broad audiences with the limitless power of art to move, motivate, and inspire. A staunch advocate for the civic and democratic roles our cultural and educational institutions can play, Anne is committed to projects that demonstrate the crucial links between art and social justice.
Anne Pasternak
Na'ye Perez is a Brooklyn based Haitian-Cuban interdisciplinary artist. Pulling from his experiences growing up in Columbus, Ohio, LA and Camden, NJ as well New York. His practice is a type of remixing, similar to how a sound engineer or producer would sample hooks, beats or choruses to create new music. However, instead he collages materials such as Backwoods, Swishers Sweets, magazines, historical archives, and personal memorabilia in conjunction with symbols, colors, and patterns to framework his art.
Na’ye Perez
Sara Reisman is a curator, writer, and educator based in New York City where she is Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs at the National Academy of Design. From 2014 to 2021 she served as Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, where she led the foundation’s art and social justice grantmaking initiative, curated more than a dozen thematic exhibitions, and edited multiple publications. From 2008 to 2014, Reisman was Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program at the Department of Cultural Affairs, where she managed more than 100 permanent public art commissions across the five boroughs. She has curated exhibitions for the Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Cooper Union School of Art, Philadelphia ICA, Momenta Art, Smack Mellon, and LaMaMa Galleria, among other venues. Reisman has taught at UPenn, SUNY Purchase School of Art + Design, and, since 2016, serves on the faculty at SVA's Curatorial Practice Masters Program. She has been awarded residencies by Art Omi, the Foundation for a Civil Society, Artis, CEC Artslink, Futura, and the Montello Foundation. She received her BA at the University of Chicago and was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Sara Reisman
Veronica Ryan OBE (b. 1956, Plymouth, Montserrat) has engaged with issues of
history, identity, dislocation, and belonging throughout her career. In meticulously handcrafted works composed of materials that reference her Afro-Caribbean heritage and upbringing in the U.K., Ryan examines the psychology and semantics of perception, and experiences of place, home, memory, and loss. Ryan’s first one-person exhibition was at Arnolfini, Bristol in 1987. Other important one-person shows have been presented at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (1988); Camden Arts Centre (1995); Aldrich Museum (1996); Salena Gallery, Brooklyn (2005); Tate St Ives (2000, 2005 and 2017); The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2011); The Art House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (2017); and Spike Island, Bristol (2021). In 2021, a sculpture by Ryan honoring the Windrush Generation was unveiled outside Hackney Town Hall in London. Her work is in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, Contemporary Art Society, Sainsbury’s Collection, Tate Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, and the Weltkunst Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Ryan currently lives and works in both New York and the U.K.
Veronica Ryan
Asser Saint-Val (b. 1974, Port-de-Paix, Haiti) is a South Florida-based multi-disciplinary artist, painter, sculptor, installation artist, graphic designer and musician. His work explores Neuromelanin with an interest in spirituality and self-consciousness.
Asser Saint-Val
Helen Toomer is Co-founder of Stoneleaf Retreat, an artists’ residency and connective space in the Catskill Mountains, which is focused on supporting womxn and families. She is also the Founder of Upstate Art Weekend and the Co-founder of Art Mamas Alliance.
Formerly, Toomer was Executive Director of Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) and Director of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Collective Design Fair, and PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs. She also co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda, in New York.
Toomer lectures on art fairs and professional development at universities and arts organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom, and was an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She serves on the Board of AIRIE and Advisory Committees for ProjectArt, Foundwork, The Dorsky Museum and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Arts Institute of Bournemouth, England.
