OUTSIDE OF THE FRAME
Marisa Telleria - Pink Corner
OUTSIDE OF THE FRAME
Curated by artist Richard Garet
April 19 - May 31, 2025
Opening Reception: April 19, 6:00 – 9:00PM
Artist Talk: May 17, 4PM
Closing reception: May 31, 6 – 9PM
Featured Artist: Claudia Hart, Juan Henríquez, Brookhart Jonquil, KX2: Ruth Avra & Dana Kleinman, Diego Masi, Andrés Michelena, Marisa Tellería, Denise Treizman, and Tiffany Trenda.
Outside of the Frame redefines painting as a conceptual act rather than a confined medium, exploring how the practice of expanded painting transcends the traditional boundaries of the canvas. This exhibition focuses on abstraction as both a visual language and an experiential process, presenting works that challenge and expand the conventional frame of painting to exist beyond its physical and historical definitions.
At its core, this exhibition is an investigation of painting’s essence: its ability to engage with color, texture, movement, and space in ways that evoke emotion, perception, and thought. By working outside of the frame—both literally and metaphorically—the artists articulate a vision of painting as an open, fluid field where boundaries dissolve, giving way to new forms of expression. Abstraction becomes a method of inquiry, where painting sheds its material constraints and emerges as an idea, an encounter, and energy.
Through these expanded practices, painting occupies not only surfaces but also thought and presence. The works challenge viewers to reconsider what painting is and what it can be, as they engage with its aura and resonance beyond the physical frame. Outside of the Frame highlights painting as a space of infinite potential, where the interplay of gesture and concept creates new pathways for abstraction to thrive.
By distilling painting to its essence and pushing it into expanded realms, this exhibition reaffirms its timeless relevance while opening new avenues for interpretation and transformation. Outside of the Frame asks viewers to step beyond what they know and into the ever-evolving possibilities of painting.
Tiffany Trenda - Soft-Interfaces 3
Denise Treizman - Puzzle (3+)
Claudia Hart - Russian Roulettes
Claudia Hart
Claudia Hart (b. 1955, New York, NY) is a pioneering artist exploring identity and representation through 3D animation, virtual imaging, and simulation technologies. Since the late 90s, she has created media installations, projections, VR, AR, and computer-generated objects. She developed Experimental 3D, the first pedagogical program dedicated to simulation technologies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is Professor Emerita. Her work is widely exhibited and collected by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the National Gallery, Hamburger Bahnhof, the Albertina Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She is currently a fellow at UC California’s Center for New Music and Audio Technology. Hart lives in New York and works with Bitforms Gallery. claudiahart.com
Juan Henriquez
Juan Henriquez (b. 1980, Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a visual artist, whose practice spans painting, drawing, mixed media, and collage, working primarily in large-scale formats to explore expressionist abstraction. He began his art studies in 1995 at the Julio Árraga Art School and later at the Neptalí Rincón Superior Art Academy in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Henriquez further expanded his knowledge through workshops in experimental graphic arts, lithography, photography, literature, and dance. As a co-founder of La Tintota Art Collective, he developed public art projects, art labs, and group exhibitions under the mentorship of surrealist artist José Ramón Sánchez and art critic and writer Víctor Fuenmayor. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the Dutch Caribbean, and the United States. In 2002, he received the Young Artist Award at the 27th National Art Salon of Aragua in Maracay, Venezuela. juanhenriquez.com
Brookhart Jonquil
Brookhart Jonquil (b. 1984, Santa Cruz, CA) works with optical materials, space, and light, to create objects that rely on the viewer’s perception. His work explores the nature of mind, and the underlying principles that sustain living systems, whether that be a society, an ecosystem, or an individual. Jonquil’s work has been exhibited by the Bass Museum of Art, De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, the Cornell Art Museum, and most recently, a solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg. Jonquil received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. brookhartjonquil.com
KX2 is the artist duo
KX2 is the artist duo of Ruth Avra (b. 1979, Washington, D.C.) and Dana Kleinman (b. 1974, Boston, MA), sisters whose work merges metalwork and painting. Their practice explores data research with a focus on climate change and water infrastructure, highlighting urgent environmental concerns. Since forming their collaboration in 2007, KX2 has exhibited in prominent galleries and museums worldwide. In 2008, they represented the United States at the Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum of China. Their work is held in private, corporate, and public art collections throughout North America. Avra and Kleinman currently reside with their families in South Florida. www.kx2art.com
Diego Masi
Diego Masi (b. 1965, Montevideo, Uruguay) work explores the repetition of measurements and forms with organic references, generated through order, difference, proportion, and disproportion. This approach aligns his practice with geometric art, where visual codes operate not only in his painting but also in public spaces and his electromechanical installations, incorporating sound and movement. He has received multiple awards, including First Prize Uruguay at ArteBA (2000), and was nominated for the 2024 CIFO - Ars Electronica award, as well as the 2019 Competitive Fund Award MEC Uruguay. His work is held in public collections such as the Rak Art Foundation (Bahrain), Art Collection Jean et Colette Cherqui (Paris), IDB Art Collection (Washington, D.C.), Fedorova Cultural Foundation (Switzerland). Fundación Ca.Sa (Chile). Washington Convention Center Art Collection (Washington, D.C.), and the CAF Art Collection in Caracas, Venezuela and Buenos Aires, Argentina). diegomasi.blogspot.com
KX2 (Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman) - Hyades
Diego Masi - GEOMÉTRICO CP520
Juan Henriquez - La Continuidad del Bolsillo
Brookhart Jonquil - Groundless
Andres Michelena - All Raise - All Hail.
Andrés Michelena
Andrés Michelena (b. in 1963, Caracas, Venezuela) work explores the paradox of the void, where absence and presence intersect. Inspired by "Chôra," he reveals how emptiness evokes fear yet offers freedom, transforming space into a site for meaning, reception, and self discovery. He studied architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1981 to 1986. In 1992 received a Bachelor in Fine Arts at Federico Brandt Institute of Fine Arts in Caracas. In 2000 he moved to Miami, Florida and in 2006 he won the 4th Prize at the MoLAA Awards.
In 2015 received an Honorable Mention at the Rozas-Botrán Awards. His works are present in many private and public collections like Estrellita Brodsky’s Collection, Brillembourg-Capriles Collection, Arturo Filio, Arturo Mosquera, Lothar Muller, Rozas-Botran Collection, Miami Dade College’s Collection, JCMC, and MoLAA’s Permanent Collection. andresmichelena.art
Marisa Tellería
Marisa Tellería (b. 1963, Nicaragua) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, exploring visual perception and sensorial experience through painting, sculpture, and installation. Drawing from abstract and minimalist sensibilities, she creates meditative spaces that invite deep observation and reflection on perception itself. Over the past 25 years, Tellería has used traditional and ephemeral materials to convey subtle complexities in environments that challenge how we relate to physical phenomena with minimal stimuli. Tellería has exhibited widely in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Notable venues include The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Her work is part of prestigious collections and has been shown in major biennials. Tellería continues her practice in Miami, encouraging dialogue between the sensory and the contemplative. marisatelleria.com
Denise Treizman
Denise Treizman (b. 1979, Chile) creates immersive installations using repurposed materials and handcrafted elements to explore disposable culture and consumer excess. She earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (NY, 2013) and completed residencies at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Mass MOCA, NARS Foundation, Ox-Bow, Triangle, and Vermont Studio Center. She has had solo exhibitions at Coral Springs Museum, Cuchifritos Gallery, and Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space. Her work has been featured in the Bronx Museum’s AIM Biennial and the Orlando Museum’s Florida Prize. In 2024, she received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant denisetreizman.com
Tiffany Trenda
Tiffany Trenda (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA) is a performance and mixed media artist whose career spans over two decades. Her performances have been featured at prestigious institutions, including the Broad Art Museum, the World Expo (Shanghai), the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art & Human Perception, and during the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at the Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), Art Center Nabi (Seoul), Brand Library and Art Center (Pasadena), and Art in Flux at the Barbican (London). Trenda’s practice has also been showcased at major contemporary art fairs, such as ZONAMACO and Art Miami. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Beinecke Library at Yale University. She earned a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from UCLA's Design and Media Arts program tiffanytrenda.com
Richard Garet
Richard Garet (b. 1972, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a multimedia artist exploring the intersections of materials, perception, and media. His work integrates sound art, installations, and digital media, focusing on the interplay between obsolete and contemporary technologies while engaging with sensory phenomena. Garet’s work is part of collections at MoMA NY, PAMM, MOLAA, and CIFO, among others. He has exhibited at institutions including MoMA NY, MoMA SF, MACBA, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museo del Barrio, the National Gallery of Art, and Times Square Alliance in NYC, as well as numerous private and cultural institutions. He earned an MFA from Bard College and has received recognition from the South Florida Cultural Consortium (FL), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz), Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, CIFO Grants & Commissions Program (FL), The Clocktower (NYC), Foundation of Contemporary Arts (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), New York State Council of the Arts (NYC), and Taliesin West, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (Scottsdale, Arizona).