South Florida Mixed Media Artists Push the Bounds of Art

Follow South Florida artists as they mix media and push the boundaries of art. Using yarn, spray paint, leather, performance, paint, and assemblage they create the unexpected. First, meet Kern Myrtle, an anonymous street artist who takes the concept of “yarn bombing” to the next level. Kern creates colorful and friendly crochet objects and leaves them around Miami. Each object has a tag inviting passersby to take it home and spread the joy of unexpected art. Kern’s practice has expanded to collaborative street exhibitions that she organizes each year during Miami Art Week. She invites the eclectic yarn art community around the world to respond to a simple theme and send in their reactions in the form of textile art. Then, the pieces are assembled on a Wynwood fence as a sort of rouge art exhibition. Kern’s interest in color, shape, and texture has evolved into an exploration with spray paint and abstract murals.
Then, visit the American Folk Art Museum in New York for a tour of mixed media sculpture. Singer and performer Lonnie Holley applies his collaborative spirit of music making to art creation. Assemblages are created by combining found objects to form bespoke sculpture.
Fountainhead brings us to the studios of 3 artists in the midst of their Fountainhead residency. Christian Ruiz Berman is a painter who combines hyper-realistic depictions with a dreamlike quality to explore what it's like to live between worlds. Miles Greenberg uses performance to suspend time and evoke emotion. And artist Tamara Santibañez paints on skin and leather to communicate beyond language.
Next, artist Sephanie Cole is at her first museum exhibition to reflect on how a lifetime of personal art making transformed into art for the public eye. Her works are three-dimensional collages of found objects that reflect her life experience.
Finally, the NSU Art Museum introduces us to the colorful world of artist Walasse Ting. His neon-soaked landscapes and studies on the tropical environment were brought to crowds at a recent exhibition entitled, “Parrot Jungle”. Ting also focused on the intrinsic beauty of the female form, birds, and flowers.
Featuring:
Kern Myrtle, Steet Artist
Learn More: kernmyrtle.com/
Instagram: @kernmyrtle
Lonnie Holley at the American Folk Art Museum
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Fountainhead: Christian Ruiz Berman, Miles Greenberg and Tamara Santibañez
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Artist Stephanie Cole
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Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle
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[00:00:00]: Intro
[00:01:46]: Kern Myrtle, Street Artist
[00:11:25]: Lonnie Holley at the American Folk Art Museum
[00:14:26]: Fountainhead: Leather Worker Tamara Santibanez, Performance artist Miles Greenberg, Painter Christian Ruiz
[00:18:45]: Artist Stephanie Cole
[00:23:30]: Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle, presented by NSU Art Museum

[@kernmyrtle5283]

Thank you for sharing my work along with these other great artists! I would like to note that the piece you see being put up “Is this art yes/no” is by Sarah Divi from New York State and the small heart “Sí” is by Dria Stern from Mexico. #yarnweirdos4ever

[@anns.2621]

i like what you're doing but not the plastic zip ties. Maybe you could tie with jute those zip ties will never ever degrade and can end up eaten by animals