Crossroads of Dystopia, Leonel Matheu

Crossroads of Dystopia, a solo exhibition of works by Leonel Matheu, opened on July 12 and will remain on view at Florida International University's Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum through October 19, 2014. Curated by Janet Batet and presented by Miami's Dot Fifty-One Gallery, the show features more than 70 works covering 20 years in Matheu's career. The artist's versatility is on display in a variety of works on media as diverse as paper, canvas, public art, video, and multimedia installations. Curator Janet Batet says about the work: "Matheu builds a personal yet universal iconography that intertwines with the fables of our everyday existence. Spirituality, technology, passion, loneliness, dreams, chimeras, and disappointments are all at the center of his reflective body of work." Matheu's works are found in the collections of museums such as MoCA in North Miami Beach, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, and the University Art Museum in Radford, Virginia, among others. To visit the show and check viewing times, go to http://thefrost.fiu.edu/exhibitions.htm