Dot Fiftyone Gallery presents Queer Atlantics, a focused exhibition of new works by Bex McCharen (they/them), developed during their current residency at Oolite Arts.
Following a preview at Untitled Miami (Special Projects, December 2025), this exhibition marks the first expanded gallery presentation of the evolving body of work.
Through quilts, photography, and watercolors, McCharen transforms the language of fashion into a meditation on queer and trans community, care, and connection to South Florida’s waterways. Rooted in aquatic ecology, the works function as visual archives of gathering—documenting solace, acceptance, and renewal within oceans, springs, and bays.
Textile becomes sanctuary and resistance. Drawing from generations of quilters in their Virginia family lineage, McCharen threads ancestral and chosen communities into works that frame artmaking as healing and collective dreaming.
“I see quilts as an extension of the oceanic embrace—textiles that carry a warm, loving energy,” says McCharen.
Bex McCharen is an interdisciplinary artist and founder of Chromat. Recipient of the Smithsonian National Design Award (2021), their work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and featured in The New York Times, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. Based in Miami, they are currently an artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts and the Miami Cancer Institute.
Dot Fiftyone is a Miami based gallery with a focus on contemporary Latin American art. Founded in 2003 by Alfredo Guzman and Isaac Perelman, the gallery is dedicated to exhibiting emerging and established artists whose works encourage dynamic ideas and discourses. Workshops, lectures, events, as well as philanthropy are also part of the gallery program.
Mr. Perelman, former President of the Miami Art Dealers Association (MADA), and Mr. Guzman, former chairman on the Board of the Wynwood Arts District Association (WADA), have reinforced their involvement in the development of the arts in the city.
Dot Fiftyone enjoys a strong collector base in Miami, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and Latin America.
