Mindy Solomon is pleased to present Cuando el gato no está, a group exhibition featuring works by Kate MacDowell, Hannah Banciella, and Ella Stouse. Curated by Sophia Ballesteros, the exhibition takes its title from the proverb “Cuando el gato no está, los ratones hacen fiesta” (“When the cat’s away, the mice will play”), a phrase that imagines the hidden behaviors that emerge in the absence of authority. Following the animal figures that populate each artist’s practice, the exhibition invites viewers to consider what critters might do when their human counterparts are out of sight.
Kate MacDowell’s hand-built porcelain sculptures merge ecological awareness with psychological inquiry. In this selection of works, each animal — from the extinct Carolina parakeet to the humble ant — appears with human hands, materializing the allegorical relationships we project onto the natural world. A pair of Carolina parakeets perched on a branch engage in a series of ambiguous interactions, their gestures varying between care and conflict. Elsewhere in the gallery, a trio of ants is absorbed in an animated exchange, their postures revealing personality and social complexity.
Beyond the Veil marks the first exhibition at Mindy Solomon Gallery of Miami-based artists Pangea Kali Virga, Andrea Spiridonakos, and Lisu Vega, curated by Sophia Ballesteros. Bringing together three distinct textile practices, the exhibition considers cloth as both object and conduit, capable of carrying memories that extend beyond a single body or lifetime. Through processes of felting, weaving, stitching, and assemblage, each artist engages fiber not only as material, but also as a structure to record inheritance and reflection.
At the center of the exhibition, Andrea Spiridonakos creates a sense of ascension with an twenty-foot hand-painted silk swath shifting from the ground upwards, adorned in colors of turquoise, pink, and red. The silk becomes a metaphorical veil between Heaven and Earth as one walks below the drapery, illuminated from above by the natural skylights of the gallery space. The title wall holds two felt archways, one of which depicts a rocky passage opening onto an expanse of deep blue sky and a soft pink horizon line. The title of this work, Ad Te Solo (2026), references The Canticle of the Creatures by St. Francis of Assisi (1225), a poem praising God through the personification of the natural world, including “Brother Wind and Air,” “Sister Earth,” and later “Sister Death, from whose embrace no mortal can escape.” Across these works, the felt becomes a slow accumulation of gesture with simultaneous surrender. There is a peacefulness captured within the bright, scenic, colors of Spiridonakos’ work, complemented by the softness of her choice materials.
That Which Comes Together is Joyce Billet’s first exhibition at Mindy Solomon Gallery. Curated by Sophia Ballesteros, the exhibition assembles the varied yet interconnected facets of Billet’s practice, continuing her exploration on the relationships between material, form, and abstraction. From textured paintings to freestanding sculptures, elements of one work reappear in another — fragmenting and growing within the gallery space.
Grounded in Billet’s signature use of wood, That Which Comes Together reflects the balance between form and representation. Poised on the center wall of the gallery, a composition of geometric and biomorphic forms takes place. Dark, angular fragments hold presence among delicate and gilded stems. Inspired by the kinetic sculptures of Calder, the composition recalls a mobile frozen in time and dispersed. The shapes derive from previous drawings and textures utilized in Billet’s work, inspired by observations of the natural world. As a whole, they represent structure. Individually, they they distill nature into simplified forms. This composition, though unique to Billet’s oeuvre, is not an isolated incident. As a whole it exists as a less defined, yet more expressive, evolution of works like Stroke (2020) and Spatial (2018).
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.
