Boil, Toil + Trouble

November 29, 2023

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Art in Common

Miami, Los Angeles, & Chicago

Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alison Blickle, Ana Mendieta, April Gornik, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Armani Howard, Astrid Terrazas, Bony Ramirez, Bruce Nauman, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Chase Hall, Chelsea Culprit, Dalton Gata, David Hammons, Edgar Arceneaux, Fawn Rogers, Frank Walter, Frantz Zephirin, Guadalupe Maravilla, Henry Chapman, Hiba Schahbaz, James Casebere, Jamilah Sabur, Jean Herard Celeur, Jillian Mayer, Julian Charrière, Lezley Saar, Loni Johnson, Marina Abramović, Maya Lin, Michael Ajerman, Myrlande Constant, Naomi Fisher, Nereida Patricia, Nicole Eisenman, Nicolette Mishkan, Niki De Saint Phalle, Paulo Pjota, Radcliffe Bailey, Ricardo Partida, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Robert Nava, Superflex, Torkwase Dyson, Wangechi Mutu, and Yassi Mazandi.

Curated by Zoe Lukov

Exhibition Description

The exhibition 'Boil, Toil & Trouble' included 46 contemporary artists working in a range of media who explore mystical, mythological, or spiritual frameworks and practices as they pertain to water. Artists selected have created works that deal with magic, ritual, and the role of the ‘witch’ or medium in contemporary art.

NAOMI FISHER

The artist has been commission to create a new site-responsive ceramic installation. Produced during her recent residency at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, the new work references the fecundity of Miami’s natural landscape, the richness of mythological and surrealist imagining while maintaining its foundation in the artist’s public art practice that pulls from Miami deco architecture. Specifically for the exhibition, Fisher returned to the iconic symbol of the mermaid or the water nymph as both seductive and the grotesque, hyper-sexualized dreamy and the cause of a watery death. New monstruous sea forms take shape and octopus tentacles and suckers are stylized to become decorative façade motifs. Her work is grounded in artifice and design, particularly for architectural facades, and yet the imagery, textures, colors and glazing ooze with sex, desire and repulsion.

In addition to a series of new works, site-specific commissions, and large-scale installations, significant historic works were on loan from the private collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Craig Robins, Priscila & Alvin Hudgins, and Renee Gans.

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