Aunque no me crean, mi relato es hermoso, y la víbora que lo cantó lo cantó al salir del pozo
—Leonora Carrington
Mindy Solomon is pleased to exhibit X Marks the Spot, a joint exhibition created by Ornella Pocetti and Marcelo Canevari. Built as a shared fictional landscape, the exhibition brings together painting and sculptural elements to create a series of scenes that feel familiar at first glance, yet quietly unsettling.
The “X” marks a metaphorical intersection: between two painters who have lived and worked together for over ten years, between different ways of building images, and between what is shown and what remains hidden. The works respond to one another, generating a dialogue shaped by proximity, influence, and differences. The “X” also carries other meanings: it is a sign of the unknown, the variable, the disguised — it opens a space for speculation. “X” can mark what is crossed out or censored, what is restricted or forbidden — an “X” that both reveals and conceals. In that sense, it also flirts with the idea of the X-rated: the erotic, the excessive, the inappropriate, the image that exceeds what can be comfortably shown. […]
X Marks the Spot is as performative as it is a visual exhibition. The works lead and unfold. The viewer will be surprised by all the secret narratives. In their first Miami debut, Canevari and Pocetti bring mystery and delight to the viewer.
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Zoe Schweiger at the gallery, Sun-Kissed, a love letter to Miami’s nightlife.
Drawing from scenes at places such as Twist on South Beach and Willy’s, a beloved gay bar that recently closed in Wynwood, alongside longtime favorites like Over Under, Mac’s Club Deuce, Floyd, and Gramps, Schweiger documents the intimacy and vitality of these environments. Her paintings are rooted in lived experience, where music reverberates, cigarette smoke drifts from nearby bodies, and the heavy Miami air clings to skin.
Within these spaces, friends and loved ones dance, laugh, reapply lipstick, and drink between conversations. Vibrant reds melt beneath them as lights flicker. A warm haze encompasses them, sweat trickling down faces as bodies warp, overlap, and wrap around one another. The figures blur into their surroundings, mirroring the fleeting nature of the night. This series of works encapsulates her love for music, intimacy, and friendship, where moments of Miami’s familiar queer community are suspended in time.
These paintings act as an archive of a city in flux, where many of the spaces depicted have closed, echoing a larger loss. Through these scenes, Schweiger represents a Miami that may soon no longer exist. Eroded not only by development and time, but by the rising waters that threaten to reshape the city. These looming realities are what spur her to make these works, preserving the warmth, sweat, love, and music of a changing Miami.
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present In Aludria, Lanise Howard’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Continuing with her tradition of masterful storytelling and graphic imagery, Howard explores a new body of work through an Afro-futurist lens. Afro-futurism is a cultural aesthetic and philosophy that blends African diasporic culture with science fiction, fantasy, and technology to reimagine the past, present, and future — fostering Black identity, liberation, and empowerment through art.
Howard writes:
“I am interested in creating an analogous world where hidden histories, personal allegories, and multiple periods of time merge. My work ranges from portraiture to large-scale allegorical figurative paintings and often exists between differing states of being. Through paint, I aim to construct spaces that allow the viewer to become transported. [..] Realism and abstraction are juxtaposed as I search for both the tangible and the intangible. This push and pull — between inner and outer space — is rendered through paint to offer a glimpse into the in-between, beyond what we typically see.”
With a focus on portraiture and delicately rendered landscapes, flora, and fauna, Howard once again demonstrates why she is one of the preeminent painters of Black storytelling today.
Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. The gallery represents artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, and video in both narrative and non-objective styles. The gallery program explores the intersection of art and design through an ongoing dialog between two and three-dimensional objects, while embracing diasporic voices. Utilizing the gallery space as a platform for inventive exhibitions, museum visitations, and public lectures, Solomon invites a sense of community and aesthetic enrichment.
Solomon founded the gallery in 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she established her reputation as a contemporary art dealer. She is a Board member of the Miami Art Dealers Association and is currently located in the Allapattah neighborhood in Miami.
