Beatriz Milhazes: Botanical Garden

The exhibition Beatriz Milhazes: Botanical Garden consists of over 40 large paintings, collages and serigraphies created in the last 25 years of the Brazilian artist's career. Open to the public until January 11 of 2015, the show presented at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) surveys the development of her unique painting style characterized by the use of loud colors and superimposing geometric forms. Organized by curator Tobias Ostrander, the exhibition is arranged in chronological order with secuential sections that focus on formal research. The groups of works range from pieces from the 1990s, with laces, flounces, decorative pinls and pearls, to bold colors, stars, hearts and diagonal lines, to the incorporation of large scale horizontal and vertical lines from the 2000s. Beatriz Milhazes: Botanical Garden includes works never before shown in the US, and three new paintings specifically created for the presentation at the PAMM. The show underscores Milhazes's singular artistic process, in which collage and painting are combined to explore movement and materiality. The title of the exhibition, Botanical Garden, refers to the neigborhood in Rio de Janeiro—where his studio is located—the dychotomy between the structure and rational order contained in his works, and the sensuality, expression and emotion that they convey.