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“Spirit lives in everything” ‒ This iconic quote by the late artist Sari Dienes serves as the entryway to the standout new exhibitions presented by the Boca Raton Museum of Art (on view June 14 - October 22, 2023) . . . Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature; Sri Prabha: Resonator-Reanimator; and Matthew Schreiber: Orders of Light. All three exhibitions are curated by Kelli Bodle, the Associate Curator of the Museum. Video produced by NewsTravelsFast.com.Video:
“Spirit lives in everything” ‒ This iconic quote by the late artist Sari Dienes serves as the entryway to the standout new exhibitions presented by the Boca Raton Museum of Art (on view June 14 - October 22, 2023) . . . Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature; Sri Prabha: Resonator-Reanimator; and Matthew Schreiber: Orders of Light. All three exhibitions are curated by Kelli Bodle, the Associate Curator of the Museum. Video produced by NewsTravelsFast.com.Video:
Boca Raton Museum Presents Three Breakthrough Artists
https://artdaily.cc/news/158245/Boca-Raton-Museum-Presents-Three-Breakthrough-Artists-
Trio of experimental artists take on nature and spirit at Boca Museum
By Sandra Schulman
http://palmbeachartspaper.com/trio-of-experimental-artists-take-on-nature-and-spirit-at-boca-museum/
Spaced Out: Inside Sri Prabha’s Entangled Exhibition at Boca Museum
By John Thomason June 14, 2023
https://www.bocamag.com/spaced-out-inside-sri-prabhas-entangled-exhibition-at-boca-museum/
Auction Central News
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/top-news/boca-raton-museum-of-art-spotlights-three-artists-in-concurrent-shows/
Arts Explosion at Boca Raton Museum of Art. Tour the museum's recently unveiled quartet of exhibitions, showcasing works by Benn Mitchell, Matthew Schreiber, Sari Dienes, and Sri PrabhaBy Abigail Duffy July 6, 2023
https://www.palmbeachillustrated.com/arts-explosion-at-boca-raton-museum-of-art/
https://issuu.com/pbmg/docs/pbi_0723/112
The Boca Raton Museum of Art Presents Sri Prabha: Resonator Reanimator
July 13, 2023 Neel Achary
http://businessnewsthisweek.com/business/the-boca-raton-museum-of-art-presents-sri-prabha-resonator-reanimator/
Indian artist Sri Prabha's exhibition wows at Boca Raton Museum in Florida
https://www.cnbctv18.com/travel/culture/indian-artist-sri-prabha-exhibition-boca-raton-museum-in-florida-17234191.htm
Interesantes exhibiciones de verano rompen con todo y dan sentido en Miami, La Playa y Boca Ratón por Isabel Olmos
https://www.elnuevoherald.com/vivir-mejor/artes-letras/article277198578.html
SPIRITED AWAY
Anything can be art, suggests a Boca Raton Museum of Art show.
July 27, 2023 BY GRETEL SARMIENTO
https://palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/spirited-away/
This Hollywood-based artist traded his therapist job to make art
By Carlos Frías, Elisa Baena
https://www.wlrn.org/podcast/sundial/2023-07-20/hollywood-artist-sri-brabha-boca-raton-museum
https://artdaily.cc/news/158245/Boca-Raton-Museum-Presents-Three-Breakthrough-Artists-
Trio of experimental artists take on nature and spirit at Boca Museum
By Sandra Schulman
http://palmbeachartspaper.com/trio-of-experimental-artists-take-on-nature-and-spirit-at-boca-museum/
Spaced Out: Inside Sri Prabha’s Entangled Exhibition at Boca Museum
By John Thomason June 14, 2023
https://www.bocamag.com/spaced-out-inside-sri-prabhas-entangled-exhibition-at-boca-museum/
Auction Central News
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/top-news/boca-raton-museum-of-art-spotlights-three-artists-in-concurrent-shows/
Arts Explosion at Boca Raton Museum of Art. Tour the museum's recently unveiled quartet of exhibitions, showcasing works by Benn Mitchell, Matthew Schreiber, Sari Dienes, and Sri PrabhaBy Abigail Duffy July 6, 2023
https://www.palmbeachillustrated.com/arts-explosion-at-boca-raton-museum-of-art/
https://issuu.com/pbmg/docs/pbi_0723/112
The Boca Raton Museum of Art Presents Sri Prabha: Resonator Reanimator
July 13, 2023 Neel Achary
http://businessnewsthisweek.com/business/the-boca-raton-museum-of-art-presents-sri-prabha-resonator-reanimator/
Indian artist Sri Prabha's exhibition wows at Boca Raton Museum in Florida
https://www.cnbctv18.com/travel/culture/indian-artist-sri-prabha-exhibition-boca-raton-museum-in-florida-17234191.htm
Interesantes exhibiciones de verano rompen con todo y dan sentido en Miami, La Playa y Boca Ratón por Isabel Olmos
https://www.elnuevoherald.com/vivir-mejor/artes-letras/article277198578.html
SPIRITED AWAY
Anything can be art, suggests a Boca Raton Museum of Art show.
July 27, 2023 BY GRETEL SARMIENTO
https://palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/spirited-away/
This Hollywood-based artist traded his therapist job to make art
By Carlos Frías, Elisa Baena
https://www.wlrn.org/podcast/sundial/2023-07-20/hollywood-artist-sri-brabha-boca-raton-museum
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Wed, Jun 14, 2023 - Sun, Oct 22, 2023
Resonator - Reanimator at Boca Raton Museum of Art
This interactive exhibition can be climbed in and around, furthering the Fluxus concept that art is participatory. Prabha's work is holistic: viewers experience it through sight, sound, and feel. Visitors will observe video projections, interact with wall sculptures and learn from ephemera such as archaeological fossils. This exhibition addresses the totality of the universe and our place in it.Curated by Associate Curator Kelli Bodle
https://bocamuseum.org/art/sri-prabha-resonator-reanimator
Aspen Ideas: Climate 2023 Temporary Public Art
Film program to feature Cosmic occupancy March 7-9 2023
In conjunction with the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference taking place on Miami Beach March 6-9, 2023 the City of Miami Beach and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs will present a series of temporary site-specific public art commissions, film screenings, and performances highlighting issues related to climate change and sea level rise.
Fifteen (15) South Florida-based artists will present work, including visual artists Laurencia Strauss, Orlando Estrada, Cornelius Tulloch, Magnus Sodamin, Justin H. Long, Claudio Marcotulli, and Michelle Weinberg.
The Film program will feature artists Cheryl Maeder, Shireen Rahimi, Sri Prabha, and Coral Morphologic (artist duo Colin Foord, and J.D. McKay). Performances will include works by artists Amanda Crider and Liony García, and a sound installation by Juraj Kojš. The program will also feature two satellite exhibitions in Miami Beach by visual artists Beatriz Chachamovits, Mira Lehr, and Lauren Shapiro at the Jewish Museum of Florida, and Jessy Nite at the Avalon Hotel.
Aspen Ideas: Climate is presented by the City of Miami Beach and the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. In collaboration with the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County and a diverse group of partner institutions in and beyond South Florida, the Aspen Institute is enlisting global and local policymakers, scientific experts, corporate leaders, inventors and innovators, artists, young leaders, influencers, and engaged members of the public to participate in Aspen Ideas: Climate 2023.
With the support of the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,the Miami Dade County Mayor, and Board of County Commissioners. #MiamiDadeArts @MiamiDadeArts #AspenIdeasClimate #MiamiBeach #ecoart #contemporaryart #videoart
In conjunction with the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference taking place on Miami Beach March 6-9, 2023 the City of Miami Beach and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs will present a series of temporary site-specific public art commissions, film screenings, and performances highlighting issues related to climate change and sea level rise.
Fifteen (15) South Florida-based artists will present work, including visual artists Laurencia Strauss, Orlando Estrada, Cornelius Tulloch, Magnus Sodamin, Justin H. Long, Claudio Marcotulli, and Michelle Weinberg.
The Film program will feature artists Cheryl Maeder, Shireen Rahimi, Sri Prabha, and Coral Morphologic (artist duo Colin Foord, and J.D. McKay). Performances will include works by artists Amanda Crider and Liony García, and a sound installation by Juraj Kojš. The program will also feature two satellite exhibitions in Miami Beach by visual artists Beatriz Chachamovits, Mira Lehr, and Lauren Shapiro at the Jewish Museum of Florida, and Jessy Nite at the Avalon Hotel.
Aspen Ideas: Climate is presented by the City of Miami Beach and the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. In collaboration with the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County and a diverse group of partner institutions in and beyond South Florida, the Aspen Institute is enlisting global and local policymakers, scientific experts, corporate leaders, inventors and innovators, artists, young leaders, influencers, and engaged members of the public to participate in Aspen Ideas: Climate 2023.
With the support of the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,the Miami Dade County Mayor, and Board of County Commissioners. #MiamiDadeArts @MiamiDadeArts #AspenIdeasClimate #MiamiBeach #ecoart #contemporaryart #videoart
CODAmagazine: Technology & Art VII
Digital technology enhancing the experience of art : design + art projects that use video, sound, augmented reality & more.
Main Page:
https://flipboard.com/@codaworx/codamagazine-technology-art-vii-hqcdit5tz
Project page:
https://flipboard.com/@codaworx/codamagazine-technology-art-vii-hqcdit5tz/spaceresearchcentre-aka-southern-lights---codaworx/a-MvXihMe2S6CYY4WBwWnWrg%3Aa%3A77177216-7204231508%2Fcodaworx.com
How We're Adapting: Fountainhead
As part of our ongoing commitment to the arts and our institutional partners, we're checking in to see how they've adjusted to these challenging times. First, we caught up with artists from Miami's Fountainhead Residency and Studios.
10 April 2020
https://www.phillips.com/article/56467325/fountainhead-residency-studios-miami-artists?
As part of our ongoing commitment to the arts and our institutional partners, we're checking in to see how they've adjusted to these challenging times. First, we caught up with artists from Miami's Fountainhead Residency and Studios.
10 April 2020
https://www.phillips.com/article/56467325/fountainhead-residency-studios-miami-artists?
P: What is the broader meaning of your work, and how does it relate to the current global situation?
SRI PRABHA: My message in my artwork has been that humans need Earth. Earth doesn’t need us. We are interconnected to either the vitality or the destruction we bring. What we focus on manifests. It's unfortunate that it takes a pandemic for everyone to stop ‘business as usual’ and be forced to reflect upon how we are stewarding the planet. Works that address the environmental stressors that humans are placing on the world are even more necessary than ever. My eco-based artwork hasn't changed due to the pandemic, it's now even more urgent. Encouraging a holistic approach, I have been making more photo-based works that are more regionally inspired.
SRI PRABHA: My message in my artwork has been that humans need Earth. Earth doesn’t need us. We are interconnected to either the vitality or the destruction we bring. What we focus on manifests. It's unfortunate that it takes a pandemic for everyone to stop ‘business as usual’ and be forced to reflect upon how we are stewarding the planet. Works that address the environmental stressors that humans are placing on the world are even more necessary than ever. My eco-based artwork hasn't changed due to the pandemic, it's now even more urgent. Encouraging a holistic approach, I have been making more photo-based works that are more regionally inspired.
Art Loft
Stunning Large-Scale Visuals | Art Loft 801Season 8 Episode 1 | 26m 46s
https://www.pbs.org/video/artist-profile-sri-prabha-art-loft-801-j0u7oh/
Light, color, and even chemistry create this stunning world in our ART LOFT Season 8 premiere! Artists featured: 1. Teresita Fernández: Elemental at PAMM - on view NOW until Feb. 9, 2020 2. Paola Gracey - @PaolaStudios on Instagram 3. Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach - www.cornellartmuseum.org 4. German artist Otto Piene 5. Sri Prabha - www.sriprabha.com
Art Loft is a weekly 30-minute art program showcasing local artists, exhibitions, performances, and, arts organizations that are positioning South Florida as an emerging leader in the world of art. Art Loft is a collaboration between WPBT2, local artists, producers and other PBS stations around the country.
Stunning Large-Scale Visuals | Art Loft 801Season 8 Episode 1 | 26m 46s
https://www.pbs.org/video/artist-profile-sri-prabha-art-loft-801-j0u7oh/
Light, color, and even chemistry create this stunning world in our ART LOFT Season 8 premiere! Artists featured: 1. Teresita Fernández: Elemental at PAMM - on view NOW until Feb. 9, 2020 2. Paola Gracey - @PaolaStudios on Instagram 3. Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach - www.cornellartmuseum.org 4. German artist Otto Piene 5. Sri Prabha - www.sriprabha.com
Art Loft is a weekly 30-minute art program showcasing local artists, exhibitions, performances, and, arts organizations that are positioning South Florida as an emerging leader in the world of art. Art Loft is a collaboration between WPBT2, local artists, producers and other PBS stations around the country.
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Sri Prabha: Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Posted by Elman + Skye + Colmenares
http://inspicio.fiu.edu/interviews/sri-prabha/
Sri Prabha: Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Posted by Elman + Skye + Colmenares
http://inspicio.fiu.edu/interviews/sri-prabha/
Virtual views: The Joys of Broward Illuminated
https://www.browardilluminated.com/
Commissioned by Broward County through its Public Art & Design Program.
While this project was originally commissioned for the Governmental Center in Fort Lauderdale, not everyone is able to physically visit the site; because of restrictions due to the Covid 19 pandemic, I've decided to make an online version accessible to all. I wanted everyone to be able to take home part of the artwork and enjoy it in their own environment. You can now stream the video art that is in the video pillars on your smartphones or tablets. Let the videos play in the background and experience some of what it feels like to be at the physical location. There are 3 specific videos that address the following elements: trees, water, and flora/ fauna. One video has all three combined. If you have more than one phone or tablet, I recommend streaming a different one on each device at the same time. You can create a little installation around your home. Turn each device on its vertical axis, enlarge the viewing window, adjust the volume, and soak in the experience.
THE ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART
FLORIDA PRIZE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Opening Preview Party will be on May 31st, 2019.
The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, runs from May 31st to August 18th, 2019
The Orlando Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the artists for the 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art: Robert Aiosa, Joe Fig, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Lola Gómez, Amer Kobaslija, Pepe Mar, Anja Marais, Edison Peñafiel, Vickie Pierre, and Sri Prabha. Each artist featured in this exhibition will be represented by a recent or site-specific body of work that provides an in-depth view of their practice. One artist will be selected to receive the $20,000 award which has been made possible by the generous support of Gail and Michael Winn. “The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art is an opportunity to discover artists who are expressing ideas relevant to our time in new and visually exciting ways,” said Glen Gentele, Director & CEO.
Organized and curated by the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), the Florida Prize exhibition brings new recognition to the state’s most compelling and progressive artists. Artists range from emerging to mid-career, and each is engaged in exploring significant issues of contemporary art and society in original and visually exciting ways. In all cases, they are artists whose achievements are marked by a record of notable exhibitions and awards. “Now in its sixth year, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art has consistently demonstrated the depth of important work being done by artists throughout the State,” said Hansen Mulford, Senior Curator at the Orlando Museum of Art.
The exhibition presents artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and immersive installations with each advancing their practice in innovative directions. Issues addressed by these artists are diverse, exploring such topics as the architecture of home, Florida’s threatened environment, the overdose epidemic in Central Florida, the refugee’s journey, the artist’s studio as a portrait of the artist and the technology of transcendental experience. “Woven through this year's show is a connecting thread that seems to touch upon the notion of humanity. Some artists open a dialogue about latent tensions or actual clashes, and others provide an escape” says Associate Curator, Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon.
The exhibition Opening Preview Party will be on May 31st, 2019. The VIP hour is 6-7pm and General Admission is 7-10pm. The ticketed event will feature a sampling of the culinary artistry of Orlando’s most sensational restaurants and caterers sponsoring the event, each offering dishes inspired by the 10 Florida Prize artists. Guests can also enjoy beer, wine and specialty cocktails from our beverage sponsors, mingle with the artists, listen to great live music, explore the exhibition and create the best social/cultural mix to be experienced in the state.
The artist selected to receive the Florida Prize will be announced at the opening night party. Guests will have the opportunity to cast a “People’s Choice” vote for their favorite artist which is sponsored by Corkcicle. For more information on the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, the artists, our sponsors and the Opening Preview Party, please visit www.omart.org. Funds from the event will support the Florida Prize exhibition. For press images or additional information, please contact Nicolaas Guaderrama, Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations Manager, at [email protected] or at 407.896.4231 ext. 233.
FLORIDA PRIZE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Opening Preview Party will be on May 31st, 2019.
The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, runs from May 31st to August 18th, 2019
The Orlando Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the artists for the 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art: Robert Aiosa, Joe Fig, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Lola Gómez, Amer Kobaslija, Pepe Mar, Anja Marais, Edison Peñafiel, Vickie Pierre, and Sri Prabha. Each artist featured in this exhibition will be represented by a recent or site-specific body of work that provides an in-depth view of their practice. One artist will be selected to receive the $20,000 award which has been made possible by the generous support of Gail and Michael Winn. “The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art is an opportunity to discover artists who are expressing ideas relevant to our time in new and visually exciting ways,” said Glen Gentele, Director & CEO.
Organized and curated by the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), the Florida Prize exhibition brings new recognition to the state’s most compelling and progressive artists. Artists range from emerging to mid-career, and each is engaged in exploring significant issues of contemporary art and society in original and visually exciting ways. In all cases, they are artists whose achievements are marked by a record of notable exhibitions and awards. “Now in its sixth year, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art has consistently demonstrated the depth of important work being done by artists throughout the State,” said Hansen Mulford, Senior Curator at the Orlando Museum of Art.
The exhibition presents artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and immersive installations with each advancing their practice in innovative directions. Issues addressed by these artists are diverse, exploring such topics as the architecture of home, Florida’s threatened environment, the overdose epidemic in Central Florida, the refugee’s journey, the artist’s studio as a portrait of the artist and the technology of transcendental experience. “Woven through this year's show is a connecting thread that seems to touch upon the notion of humanity. Some artists open a dialogue about latent tensions or actual clashes, and others provide an escape” says Associate Curator, Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon.
The exhibition Opening Preview Party will be on May 31st, 2019. The VIP hour is 6-7pm and General Admission is 7-10pm. The ticketed event will feature a sampling of the culinary artistry of Orlando’s most sensational restaurants and caterers sponsoring the event, each offering dishes inspired by the 10 Florida Prize artists. Guests can also enjoy beer, wine and specialty cocktails from our beverage sponsors, mingle with the artists, listen to great live music, explore the exhibition and create the best social/cultural mix to be experienced in the state.
The artist selected to receive the Florida Prize will be announced at the opening night party. Guests will have the opportunity to cast a “People’s Choice” vote for their favorite artist which is sponsored by Corkcicle. For more information on the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, the artists, our sponsors and the Opening Preview Party, please visit www.omart.org. Funds from the event will support the Florida Prize exhibition. For press images or additional information, please contact Nicolaas Guaderrama, Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations Manager, at [email protected] or at 407.896.4231 ext. 233.
Opening Reception:
February 28, 2019
7-10pm
The Annex
Gesamtkunstwerk Building
2930 NW 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
(Map)
For Immediate Release — Spinello Projects and Fordistas are proud to present the second installment of The Annex, an experimental, non-commercial arts space dedicated to offering a safe space for promising up-and-coming Miami-based curators and artists. Focusing on underrepresented and underserved communities, The Annex provides a platform and resources to realize thought-provoking experiences through art. RCS 51-75 Exhibit is a multimedia group show featuring participants of Rocking Chair Sessions podcasts 51-75, curated by BABA Collective. The Exhibition runs through March 29, 2019.
Established in 2017, BABA Collective, comprised of Elysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist, have engaged in dialog within our Miami art community; inquiring artists and cultural producers about their personal narratives and creative processes. The conversations have been archived as online podcasts - RCS: Rocking Chair Sessions. Joining the global burgeoning club of audio interviews, BABA Collective is keeping it local and grassroots by interviewing peers only from South Florida inside the modest sized Studio #14 at the Bakehouse Art Complex with the aim to build bridges via South Florida’s oral history and multifaceted creative practices
This show is a celebration of both visual artwork and audio collected, presenting a tapestry of works by 25 artists and cultural producers focusing on histories:
- Histories of immigration
- Histories of the body
- Histories of material
- Histories of our environment
- Histories of South Florida
And embodies how those histories are then processed and used as the impetus into creative outlets such as photography, performance, printmaking, painting, video, sculpture, and curation. The archives of sessions in themselves becoming a part of a living oral history. Not one history is the same, but they all collide and coexist here… in present South Florida, whose surface, environment, and individuals have also been changing the past couple of years. How do you capture history? It all begins in the now… with the telling of a story. This exhibit opens up to the community to see, hear, and witness a part of that history.Participating Artists: Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Judith Berk King, Roxana Barba, David Rohn, Sri Prabha, Amalia Caputo, Anja Marais, Gianna Riccardi, Jacqueline Gopie, Morel Doucet, Scott Brennan, Ana Mendez, Brookhart Jonquil, Kerry McLaney, Kiki Valdes, Jill Deupi, Maria Lino, Sarah Michelle Rupert, Sterling Rook, Yuneikys Villalonga, Regina Jestrow, Sandra Ramos, Pedro Wazzan, Tamara Despujols, Mike Rivamonte
RCS is supported by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
Listen to RCS Podcasts!
RCS: Rocking Chair Sessions — Maria Theresa Barbist and Elysa D. Batista are both locally based South Florida artists that collaborate as the BABA Collective. They originally met at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, FL during their individual artist residencies in 2016. The idea of the BABA Collective was born when in discussion of the diversity of artists that were found at the BAC, and other institutions in Miami, they realized the lack of archives providing the ability to access interviews of these individuals. Thus RCS: Rocking Chair Sessions was created. A publicly accessible forum where one could find individual recordings describing the professions, media, and life of South Florida based creatives. Launching their collaborative endeavor in 2017, the BABA Collective seeks to amass a window into the lives and process of SoFla based professionals in the arts.
DONATE
BABA Collective is raising money to match a Community grant that was awarded from the Miami Dade Departement of Cultural Affairs for future exhibitions.
The Annex program is a partnership of Spinello Projects and Fordistas.
Spinello Projects is a Miami-based contemporary art program founded in 2005. It is a gallery, creative space, and an innovative platform for nomadic site-specific and curatorial projects.
Fordistas is a platform for emerging arts and culture focused on nurturing and elevating homegrown talent. We are artists, writers, filmmakers and creators. We are the outliers. We believe in disrupting the flow and actively affecting culture. We believe in celebrating and equalizing art. We believe in backing projects that make us think past our own beliefs. We are #Fordistas.
December 2, 2018
11-4PM Open Studio in Miami
Please join me for 2018 Open Studios.
My studio is #113
I will be open 11-4pm with light snacks and drinks.
Various new works now available just in time for the holidays.
There will be other Fountainhead artists open as well.
7338 NW Miami Ct.
Studio #113
Miami,Fl 33150
https://goo.gl/maps/qg6vwhweCYJ2
786.220.2774
[email protected]
www.sriprabha.com
11-4PM Open Studio in Miami
Please join me for 2018 Open Studios.
My studio is #113
I will be open 11-4pm with light snacks and drinks.
Various new works now available just in time for the holidays.
There will be other Fountainhead artists open as well.
7338 NW Miami Ct.
Studio #113
Miami,Fl 33150
https://goo.gl/maps/qg6vwhweCYJ2
786.220.2774
[email protected]
www.sriprabha.com
Voyage MIA article:
http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-sri-prabha-hollywood-fl/
Meet Sri Prabha in Hollywood
Today we’d like to introduce you to Sri Prabha.
Sri, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I immigrated to the US as a kid from India and lived in the Boston area before roaming the world. Once here, my focus on exploring our world grew and transformed into using art as a way to exploring the complexities and wonder of our natural environment. I went to several art schools, Mass Art, Cal Arts, and Cornish College of the Arts. I learned what was interesting to me in those places and further developed my work within my own perspective of being from an Eastern culture. I lived in San Francisco teaching and making work for 13 years before moving to South Florida in 2010.
Moving down here I found an open atmosphere to create and experiment. I had several studios in Miami, the one at the Fountainhead was probably the most useful and productive, and I wish we had something similar in Broward. I started showing my work at The Deering Estate, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Moca North Miami, downtown Miami pop ups, Young at Art Museum, The Fountainhead, and the Fat Village Project Space.
I received the Best Artist Award by Broward New Times in 2015, and the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award in 2016. I also have a permanent installation at the Governmental Center in downtown Fort Lauderdale installed end of 2017.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
The road for me has been like the game Chutes and Ladders. Better hang on and know what you want out of life! From a family perspective, being of Indian heritage, going into art was very unheard of. It’s still non-existent in our upbringing, but I learned to forge my own path and not to care too much what others thought of me early on. We only get one shot to discover and exist as we are meant to be.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Sri Prabha story. Tell us more about the business.
I’m known for my multidisciplinary approach to art making. My work raises awareness of ecology, mindful consciousness, and our relationship to the natural world.
My work manifests across a range of mediums that include installations, video, sculptural paintings, and photo based works. Additionally, I integrate into my aesthetic process, tenants of geography, nature, time, human origins, and the cosmos. I illuminate new possibilities and reconcile the old and new by synthesizing deeper understandings of our relationship to the natural world. I ask how our intellectual understandings compare with our emotional responses. I travel the world to conduct research connecting geological identities, man’s drive for scientific exploration, and humanities connection to The Universe. Asking the questions where are we going and how will we get there? Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized and expressed through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos.
What I enjoy especially is bringing these experiences to diverse communities thru partnerships with counties, and other non-profit organizations. I also enjoy making commissioned works on different scales, such as public art or for private collectors. What really sets me apart is that I am a true fusion of Eastern and Western knowledge. My Eastern heritage informs and develops the Western Ideas in Art making and consciousness. I think about Vedic ideas about interconnectedness, and how contemporary science points to similar concepts. Old knowledge fused and supported by current science. These threads about how I make my work conceptually sets me apart from anyone else.
On a recent project, a client commissioned me to make work for her law office. A glass conference room in which I made a lighted mixed media work titled Cosmic Stream. The really interesting thing about this work is that you can see it from both sides, and you see two different works. One side references large stellar bodies and the cosmos on a large scale, while the other is inspired by the microspic interactions of star formations and plate techtonics. These concepts are nature based yet abstracted in a contemporary way to engage and open a dialogue with visitors to the office.
Another project I am proud of was commissed by Broward County Public Art and Design for the Governmental Center in downtown Fort Lauderdale. This project involved transforming some uninspiring corridors into something that made visitors feel welcomed and transported into nature. I shot video around Broward County parks and integrated it with light to make 3 light pillars incorporating video art and artifacts from nature. I also made an Ibis and a live oak tree LED form that look like neon for the corridors. The finished installation is a regenerative experience that will connect people back to nature and remind us of what’s in our own backyard. Another client choose works from my Anthropocene and Natural processes series. These works explore our relationship to ecology and deep time. They are a profound fusion of intellectual and emotional inquiry thru visual art.
And last, but certainly not least, I am clearly very proud of The South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant I received in 2016, the largest regional, government-sponsored artists’ grant in the United States. This award was very satisfying to receive for its recognition of the quality of work I’ve done. There are lot of people behind the scenes that invest their time into growing the cultural value of South Florida and I want to thank them for their efforts and passion.
Select works available on my website www.sriprabha.com and Alessandro Berni Gallery https://www.alessandrobernigallery.com/artists, and for commissions contact me directly at [email protected].
Founded on 2012, Alessandro Berni Gallery had been hosted by OPEN SPACE FOR ARTS Art Space directed by Giancarlo Pastonchi in Perugia until 2016. From 2017 Alessandro Berni Gallery has been based in NYC.
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
The line between chaos and organization are sometimes truly indecipherable. Being active in the art community definitely increases your chance of being noticed. That has worked for me to a point, however, that same activity goes unnoticed by others. Paraphrasing from the Bhagavad Gita, all I can say is do something if you enjoy it, and not for its rewards.
http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-sri-prabha-hollywood-fl/
Meet Sri Prabha in Hollywood
Today we’d like to introduce you to Sri Prabha.
Sri, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I immigrated to the US as a kid from India and lived in the Boston area before roaming the world. Once here, my focus on exploring our world grew and transformed into using art as a way to exploring the complexities and wonder of our natural environment. I went to several art schools, Mass Art, Cal Arts, and Cornish College of the Arts. I learned what was interesting to me in those places and further developed my work within my own perspective of being from an Eastern culture. I lived in San Francisco teaching and making work for 13 years before moving to South Florida in 2010.
Moving down here I found an open atmosphere to create and experiment. I had several studios in Miami, the one at the Fountainhead was probably the most useful and productive, and I wish we had something similar in Broward. I started showing my work at The Deering Estate, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Moca North Miami, downtown Miami pop ups, Young at Art Museum, The Fountainhead, and the Fat Village Project Space.
I received the Best Artist Award by Broward New Times in 2015, and the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award in 2016. I also have a permanent installation at the Governmental Center in downtown Fort Lauderdale installed end of 2017.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
The road for me has been like the game Chutes and Ladders. Better hang on and know what you want out of life! From a family perspective, being of Indian heritage, going into art was very unheard of. It’s still non-existent in our upbringing, but I learned to forge my own path and not to care too much what others thought of me early on. We only get one shot to discover and exist as we are meant to be.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Sri Prabha story. Tell us more about the business.
I’m known for my multidisciplinary approach to art making. My work raises awareness of ecology, mindful consciousness, and our relationship to the natural world.
My work manifests across a range of mediums that include installations, video, sculptural paintings, and photo based works. Additionally, I integrate into my aesthetic process, tenants of geography, nature, time, human origins, and the cosmos. I illuminate new possibilities and reconcile the old and new by synthesizing deeper understandings of our relationship to the natural world. I ask how our intellectual understandings compare with our emotional responses. I travel the world to conduct research connecting geological identities, man’s drive for scientific exploration, and humanities connection to The Universe. Asking the questions where are we going and how will we get there? Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized and expressed through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos.
What I enjoy especially is bringing these experiences to diverse communities thru partnerships with counties, and other non-profit organizations. I also enjoy making commissioned works on different scales, such as public art or for private collectors. What really sets me apart is that I am a true fusion of Eastern and Western knowledge. My Eastern heritage informs and develops the Western Ideas in Art making and consciousness. I think about Vedic ideas about interconnectedness, and how contemporary science points to similar concepts. Old knowledge fused and supported by current science. These threads about how I make my work conceptually sets me apart from anyone else.
On a recent project, a client commissioned me to make work for her law office. A glass conference room in which I made a lighted mixed media work titled Cosmic Stream. The really interesting thing about this work is that you can see it from both sides, and you see two different works. One side references large stellar bodies and the cosmos on a large scale, while the other is inspired by the microspic interactions of star formations and plate techtonics. These concepts are nature based yet abstracted in a contemporary way to engage and open a dialogue with visitors to the office.
Another project I am proud of was commissed by Broward County Public Art and Design for the Governmental Center in downtown Fort Lauderdale. This project involved transforming some uninspiring corridors into something that made visitors feel welcomed and transported into nature. I shot video around Broward County parks and integrated it with light to make 3 light pillars incorporating video art and artifacts from nature. I also made an Ibis and a live oak tree LED form that look like neon for the corridors. The finished installation is a regenerative experience that will connect people back to nature and remind us of what’s in our own backyard. Another client choose works from my Anthropocene and Natural processes series. These works explore our relationship to ecology and deep time. They are a profound fusion of intellectual and emotional inquiry thru visual art.
And last, but certainly not least, I am clearly very proud of The South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant I received in 2016, the largest regional, government-sponsored artists’ grant in the United States. This award was very satisfying to receive for its recognition of the quality of work I’ve done. There are lot of people behind the scenes that invest their time into growing the cultural value of South Florida and I want to thank them for their efforts and passion.
Select works available on my website www.sriprabha.com and Alessandro Berni Gallery https://www.alessandrobernigallery.com/artists, and for commissions contact me directly at [email protected].
Founded on 2012, Alessandro Berni Gallery had been hosted by OPEN SPACE FOR ARTS Art Space directed by Giancarlo Pastonchi in Perugia until 2016. From 2017 Alessandro Berni Gallery has been based in NYC.
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
The line between chaos and organization are sometimes truly indecipherable. Being active in the art community definitely increases your chance of being noticed. That has worked for me to a point, however, that same activity goes unnoticed by others. Paraphrasing from the Bhagavad Gita, all I can say is do something if you enjoy it, and not for its rewards.
Origin- solo show thru May 20, 2018
Opening Reception :
March 16, 6-9pm
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
1650 Harrison Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
ORIGIN
Slipping between resin pours, meditative states, and explorations into the cosmos through everyday objects, Sri Prabha challenges our sense of gravity and simultaneously asks us to find our center. His coalescing galaxies are fluid yet contained within their solid resin forms. Poetically, “Anthropocene 1” renders a discarded sneaker as an animalistic object with gritty toenails poking out from the geometric treaded sole. The object is captured from above as though it is a specimen of another species, a disruption in the natural order. Curated by Laura Marsh, discrete objects and poetic photographs complement the immersive. Prabha will install an encompassing meditative environment for “Nightlands 3,” an oscillating video that explores our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Prabha is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Hyderabad, India. He holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University in San Francisco, CA and a B.A. in Studio Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. Recent shows include the Historic South Florida Survey Show 100+Degrees in the Shade and an expansive solo installation at Young at Art Museum. Prabha won a 2016 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship. He is an alumnus of Hambidge Center Creative Residency Program in Georgia and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residence Program in Wyoming. His works are in private collections in Chicago, Ft Lauderdale, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Washington, DC, and Copenhagen.
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood 1650 Harrison Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
954. 921. 3273 fax
[email protected]
Opening Reception :
March 16, 6-9pm
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
1650 Harrison Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
ORIGIN
Slipping between resin pours, meditative states, and explorations into the cosmos through everyday objects, Sri Prabha challenges our sense of gravity and simultaneously asks us to find our center. His coalescing galaxies are fluid yet contained within their solid resin forms. Poetically, “Anthropocene 1” renders a discarded sneaker as an animalistic object with gritty toenails poking out from the geometric treaded sole. The object is captured from above as though it is a specimen of another species, a disruption in the natural order. Curated by Laura Marsh, discrete objects and poetic photographs complement the immersive. Prabha will install an encompassing meditative environment for “Nightlands 3,” an oscillating video that explores our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Prabha is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Hyderabad, India. He holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University in San Francisco, CA and a B.A. in Studio Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. Recent shows include the Historic South Florida Survey Show 100+Degrees in the Shade and an expansive solo installation at Young at Art Museum. Prabha won a 2016 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship. He is an alumnus of Hambidge Center Creative Residency Program in Georgia and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residence Program in Wyoming. His works are in private collections in Chicago, Ft Lauderdale, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Washington, DC, and Copenhagen.
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood 1650 Harrison Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
954. 921. 3273 fax
[email protected]
RCS: ROCKING CHAIR SESSIONS
Artist Interview #55 Sri Prabha
Maria Theresa Barbist and Elysa D. Batista are both locally based South Florida artists that collaborate as the BABA COLLECTIVE. They originally met at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, FL during their individual artist residencies in 2016.
The idea of the BABA COLLECTIVE was born when in discussion of the diversity of artists that were found at the BAC, and other institutions in Miami, they realized the lack of archives providing the ability to access interviews of these individuals. Thus RCS: ROCKING CHAIRS SESSIONS was created. A publicly accessible forum where one could find individual recordings describing the professions, media, and life of South Florida based creatives. Launching their collaborative endeavor in 2017, the BABA COLLECTIVE seeks to amass a window into the lives and process of SoFla based professionals in the arts.
Artist Interview #55 Sri Prabha
Maria Theresa Barbist and Elysa D. Batista are both locally based South Florida artists that collaborate as the BABA COLLECTIVE. They originally met at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, FL during their individual artist residencies in 2016.
The idea of the BABA COLLECTIVE was born when in discussion of the diversity of artists that were found at the BAC, and other institutions in Miami, they realized the lack of archives providing the ability to access interviews of these individuals. Thus RCS: ROCKING CHAIRS SESSIONS was created. A publicly accessible forum where one could find individual recordings describing the professions, media, and life of South Florida based creatives. Launching their collaborative endeavor in 2017, the BABA COLLECTIVE seeks to amass a window into the lives and process of SoFla based professionals in the arts.
Artist Tours at Norton Museum of Art May 3rd. 2018
Join me as I give my perspectives on some selected works in the Norton collection.
https://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Events.Details&content_id=3996
May 3, 2018, 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Norton Museum of Art,
1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, United States
Artist Sri Prabha leads an informal, 30-minute gallery tour to offer unique perspectives on works in the Norton's collection and special exhibitions.
The program was started to provide visitors with the opportunity to engage with artists whose artistic interests are reflected in the Norton's works on view.
The artists were chosen for their diverse practices. They range from emerging to established, and live and work in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. They work in a variety of media—from sculpture and painting to installation and digital media. They exhibit their works, attend residencies and receive commissions internationally, nationally, and locally. Among them are several South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellows.
Join me as I give my perspectives on some selected works in the Norton collection.
https://www.norton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Events.Details&content_id=3996
May 3, 2018, 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Norton Museum of Art,
1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, United States
Artist Sri Prabha leads an informal, 30-minute gallery tour to offer unique perspectives on works in the Norton's collection and special exhibitions.
The program was started to provide visitors with the opportunity to engage with artists whose artistic interests are reflected in the Norton's works on view.
The artists were chosen for their diverse practices. They range from emerging to established, and live and work in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. They work in a variety of media—from sculpture and painting to installation and digital media. They exhibit their works, attend residencies and receive commissions internationally, nationally, and locally. Among them are several South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellows.
Night Lands 3 now showing at E4c 4Culture Media Gallery November 2017 / https://www.4culture.org/gallery_work/sri-prabha/
101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Night Lands 3 is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of time, space, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are surrounded by and enriched by water, but also occasionally sieged by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, Prabha was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience.
Prabha started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. He thanks the Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where he had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Night Lands 3 is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of time, space, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are surrounded by and enriched by water, but also occasionally sieged by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, Prabha was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience.
Prabha started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. He thanks the Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where he had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
South Florida Cultural Consortium Show at Moca North Miami
https://mocanomi.org/2017/06/south-florida-cultural-consortium/
June 8, 2017 – August 6, 2017
Artists Reception Thursday, June 15th, 2017 | 7–9pm
RSVP: 305.893.6211
The South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) identifies, supports, and celebrates our regional artists, promoting the appreciation and production of the arts in South Florida. In the United States, the SFCC is the largest government-sponsored grant program for artists living in the counties of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach. Each year, hundreds of artists apply and this exhibition showcases the winners of this prestigious prize for the years 2014 and 2016. Celebrating the breadth of artistic production from South Florida, this exhibition presents the work of 25 individuals, who collectively embody the diverse culture of our region. Several of these artists engage with strategies of conceptual art, addressing themes about contemporary experiences such as technology and the internet, notions of migration, local and mainstream cultures, or ideas of representation. Other artists make use of traditional techniques, such as painting, drawing and sculpture, providing exquisite forms, colors and shapes in abstract compositions. Ranging from a diverse media, their works present creative voices conscious of the complex dynamics of today’s culture, as well as the desire to keep pushing the possibilities of human perception. Supporting artistic creation in a pivotal moment of an artist’s career, this exhibition celebrates the innovation and potential of these South Florida artists to continue their paths as expressive leaders of their generation.
https://mocanomi.org/2017/06/south-florida-cultural-consortium/
June 8, 2017 – August 6, 2017
Artists Reception Thursday, June 15th, 2017 | 7–9pm
RSVP: 305.893.6211
The South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) identifies, supports, and celebrates our regional artists, promoting the appreciation and production of the arts in South Florida. In the United States, the SFCC is the largest government-sponsored grant program for artists living in the counties of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach. Each year, hundreds of artists apply and this exhibition showcases the winners of this prestigious prize for the years 2014 and 2016. Celebrating the breadth of artistic production from South Florida, this exhibition presents the work of 25 individuals, who collectively embody the diverse culture of our region. Several of these artists engage with strategies of conceptual art, addressing themes about contemporary experiences such as technology and the internet, notions of migration, local and mainstream cultures, or ideas of representation. Other artists make use of traditional techniques, such as painting, drawing and sculpture, providing exquisite forms, colors and shapes in abstract compositions. Ranging from a diverse media, their works present creative voices conscious of the complex dynamics of today’s culture, as well as the desire to keep pushing the possibilities of human perception. Supporting artistic creation in a pivotal moment of an artist’s career, this exhibition celebrates the innovation and potential of these South Florida artists to continue their paths as expressive leaders of their generation.
Installation views of The Light That Brings Hope. Documentation photos by Silvia Ros.
Sri Prabha, The Art of Universal Connection - WPB Magazine Sandra Schulman
http://www.wpbmagazine.com/sri-prabha/
For an artist who has only been in South Florida for a few years, Sri Prabha has made a stellar impact. He has created major installations outdoors on museum walls, been in several group and solo shows and won Best Visual Artist from the Broward New Times last year. His spellbinding work is unclassifiable though he uses photography, video, painting and found objects to create environments that viewers are able to project whole worlds onto.
“I want my art to be inclusive, to engage everybody on their own terms,” he says in his sunny art filled home studio. A visit to his house is like being in one of his installations as video art in lightboxes swirl with colors and rotating shapes on the walls, paintings line the hallways and numerous objects – glass domes filled with bones and fossils and rock prop themselves on the coffee tables.
Sri Prabha“I don’t use people in my art for a reason, because then it represents something specific, it becomes THAT. My characters are nature, space, elements. I didn’t jive with art school because it had a certain philosophy. I did agree with the Dada School which connected to installations, freewheeling thought, disconnection from reality and connecting with universal consciousness. In my work it’s more important how it makes people feel and when they are in the installation it completes the work.”
Sri Prabha was born and lived in India for a few years before relocating to the US, earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology at Argosy University near San Francisco, where he lived before moving to Florida in 2013 with his wife.
“I think my degree in psychology has helped me to connect with people through my art. I’m interested in how things make you feel and also visually by science fiction, mandalas and Hinduism, Mayan cultures and circular symbols. I like Flash Gordon too,” Prabha says with a laugh. “India inspired my color palette with it’s rich symbols and gods. I was inspired by music in the 70s like Kraftwerk and shows on the BBC radio. I sometimes feel like I am creating a new language as I want the art to be useful to people. Moving here I immediately started connecting with artists groups and studios, finding a support network that led to meeting curators and getting shows.”
One of these curators was Jane Hart, then curator at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood who immediately gave Sri Prabha a show at the Center and another at her 100 Degrees in the Shade Gallery in Miami’s Design District where he took over a glass enclosed office in the back of the gallery. In the office he made a new installation called The Night Lands that fused four video projections with paintings and photos. The trippy room also had sound he created, a warm throbbing hum that reverberated throughout the rest of the gallery. I ran the space as Director for four months and turned the installation on and off every day, feeling slightly hypnotized by the soundtrack and glow of the room. Gallery goers were drawn to the room and its womb like aura.
“Having met Sri, I was very taken with his overall interest in the intersection between art, science, and metaphysical concepts,” Hart says.” I’m especially impressed by his ability to thoroughly activate spaces through the use of various media and objects, creating a truly transcendent, multi-sensory experience. I see limitless possibilities for Sri to do even larger scale installations and public art projects, given the opportunity and resources.”
His website says his art is about “Synthesizing the possibilities across ecology, geology, and science. Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos,” but it’s really about awe and wonder and curiosity.
At a recent panel at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach curated by Elle Schorr, Sri Prabha showed slides and videos that included some of his current inspirations. He spoke about the new worlds that are being discovered all the time, about the black holes in the galaxies that actually bend time when you go down in them. One of the video he screened was of a little lunar lander that NASA had shot into space to land on a comet and beam back info. Watching this small man made spidery thing bounce around on the surface and struggle to secure its little feet amused him to no end.
“You start projecting feelings onto this metal object that’s so far away, you root for it to connect in the cosmos and finish its mission. I include astronauts and monkeys in space suits in my art – the only figures I use. They are guides for both the past and the future – sometimes I feel like the man, sometimes I’m the hapless monkey. It’s humbling to just look at the stars.”
After his hour long talk inside the Center, Sri Prabha surprised the group by leading us outside to a back courtyard where he had projections set up against three of the walls. When the skies opened up and a deluge of rain came down, it actually made it all more beautiful as the rain slicked palm trees and walls and even the raindrops themselves reflected the projections in a rainbow of colors.
To add to the drama Sri had brought a pack of fireworks and had each of us set one down and light it up in the courtyard, oohing and aaahing as the sparklers and firecrackers popped and exploded in the rain. The Center provided champagne and the night turned into a full experience of art, wonder, flash and awe. For more information on Sri Prabha, visithis website: www.sriprabha.com
Sandra Schulman is an arts writer, music and film producer. Born in Miami, her work has appeared in Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, Ocean Drive, Country Music Magazine, The New York Daily News, News From Indian Country, and Entertainment Weekly. She was an entertainment columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for 8 years. She has authored three books on pop culture. She currently lives in West Palm Beach with her blue eyed whippet.Sandra Schulman’s column appears weekly. Contact her at [email protected].
http://www.wpbmagazine.com/sri-prabha/
For an artist who has only been in South Florida for a few years, Sri Prabha has made a stellar impact. He has created major installations outdoors on museum walls, been in several group and solo shows and won Best Visual Artist from the Broward New Times last year. His spellbinding work is unclassifiable though he uses photography, video, painting and found objects to create environments that viewers are able to project whole worlds onto.
“I want my art to be inclusive, to engage everybody on their own terms,” he says in his sunny art filled home studio. A visit to his house is like being in one of his installations as video art in lightboxes swirl with colors and rotating shapes on the walls, paintings line the hallways and numerous objects – glass domes filled with bones and fossils and rock prop themselves on the coffee tables.
Sri Prabha“I don’t use people in my art for a reason, because then it represents something specific, it becomes THAT. My characters are nature, space, elements. I didn’t jive with art school because it had a certain philosophy. I did agree with the Dada School which connected to installations, freewheeling thought, disconnection from reality and connecting with universal consciousness. In my work it’s more important how it makes people feel and when they are in the installation it completes the work.”
Sri Prabha was born and lived in India for a few years before relocating to the US, earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology at Argosy University near San Francisco, where he lived before moving to Florida in 2013 with his wife.
“I think my degree in psychology has helped me to connect with people through my art. I’m interested in how things make you feel and also visually by science fiction, mandalas and Hinduism, Mayan cultures and circular symbols. I like Flash Gordon too,” Prabha says with a laugh. “India inspired my color palette with it’s rich symbols and gods. I was inspired by music in the 70s like Kraftwerk and shows on the BBC radio. I sometimes feel like I am creating a new language as I want the art to be useful to people. Moving here I immediately started connecting with artists groups and studios, finding a support network that led to meeting curators and getting shows.”
One of these curators was Jane Hart, then curator at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood who immediately gave Sri Prabha a show at the Center and another at her 100 Degrees in the Shade Gallery in Miami’s Design District where he took over a glass enclosed office in the back of the gallery. In the office he made a new installation called The Night Lands that fused four video projections with paintings and photos. The trippy room also had sound he created, a warm throbbing hum that reverberated throughout the rest of the gallery. I ran the space as Director for four months and turned the installation on and off every day, feeling slightly hypnotized by the soundtrack and glow of the room. Gallery goers were drawn to the room and its womb like aura.
“Having met Sri, I was very taken with his overall interest in the intersection between art, science, and metaphysical concepts,” Hart says.” I’m especially impressed by his ability to thoroughly activate spaces through the use of various media and objects, creating a truly transcendent, multi-sensory experience. I see limitless possibilities for Sri to do even larger scale installations and public art projects, given the opportunity and resources.”
His website says his art is about “Synthesizing the possibilities across ecology, geology, and science. Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos,” but it’s really about awe and wonder and curiosity.
At a recent panel at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach curated by Elle Schorr, Sri Prabha showed slides and videos that included some of his current inspirations. He spoke about the new worlds that are being discovered all the time, about the black holes in the galaxies that actually bend time when you go down in them. One of the video he screened was of a little lunar lander that NASA had shot into space to land on a comet and beam back info. Watching this small man made spidery thing bounce around on the surface and struggle to secure its little feet amused him to no end.
“You start projecting feelings onto this metal object that’s so far away, you root for it to connect in the cosmos and finish its mission. I include astronauts and monkeys in space suits in my art – the only figures I use. They are guides for both the past and the future – sometimes I feel like the man, sometimes I’m the hapless monkey. It’s humbling to just look at the stars.”
After his hour long talk inside the Center, Sri Prabha surprised the group by leading us outside to a back courtyard where he had projections set up against three of the walls. When the skies opened up and a deluge of rain came down, it actually made it all more beautiful as the rain slicked palm trees and walls and even the raindrops themselves reflected the projections in a rainbow of colors.
To add to the drama Sri had brought a pack of fireworks and had each of us set one down and light it up in the courtyard, oohing and aaahing as the sparklers and firecrackers popped and exploded in the rain. The Center provided champagne and the night turned into a full experience of art, wonder, flash and awe. For more information on Sri Prabha, visithis website: www.sriprabha.com
Sandra Schulman is an arts writer, music and film producer. Born in Miami, her work has appeared in Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, Ocean Drive, Country Music Magazine, The New York Daily News, News From Indian Country, and Entertainment Weekly. She was an entertainment columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for 8 years. She has authored three books on pop culture. She currently lives in West Palm Beach with her blue eyed whippet.Sandra Schulman’s column appears weekly. Contact her at [email protected].
Hi-Tech/Lo-Tech: An Exploration of the Ever-changing Spectrum of Art and Technology At
Young At Art Museum,Davie,FL
Group show:Ongoing thru May 2017
Created by Young At Art Museum, this exhibition explores how technology and art intertwine and will feature an array of technological artwork produced by contemporary South Florida artists. Through various media, artworks and a series of other interactive actvities, visitors will learn about a broad range of technological developments and their effects on art both before and after the turn of the 21st century. Featured artists include Jessie Laino, Joe Winograd, Sri Prabha, Mattia Casalegno, Jonathan Rockford, Oliver Sanchez and Ron Erlih. Additionally, marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay will use a unique methodology to blend science and art in a way that portrays the beauty of coral while inspiring the next generation to restore coral reefs.
Young At Art Museum,Davie,FL
Group show:Ongoing thru May 2017
Created by Young At Art Museum, this exhibition explores how technology and art intertwine and will feature an array of technological artwork produced by contemporary South Florida artists. Through various media, artworks and a series of other interactive actvities, visitors will learn about a broad range of technological developments and their effects on art both before and after the turn of the 21st century. Featured artists include Jessie Laino, Joe Winograd, Sri Prabha, Mattia Casalegno, Jonathan Rockford, Oliver Sanchez and Ron Erlih. Additionally, marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay will use a unique methodology to blend science and art in a way that portrays the beauty of coral while inspiring the next generation to restore coral reefs.
I will be showing new work at Art Palm Beach Jan 18- 22.
Booth 307
"Art Palm Beach Celebrates 20 Years with Selections from
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art"
Location
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Panel Discussion
Friday, January 20, 2PM
Panel Discussion Moderated by PAMM Curator Rene Morales "Tropicurban: What Differentiates the Art Scene
in SoFLA?" Partial List of Panelists: Francie Bishop Good, Noor Blazekovic, Dana Donaty, Morel Doucet,
Jane Hart, Sri Prabha
Booth 307
"Art Palm Beach Celebrates 20 Years with Selections from
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art"
Location
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Panel Discussion
Friday, January 20, 2PM
Panel Discussion Moderated by PAMM Curator Rene Morales "Tropicurban: What Differentiates the Art Scene
in SoFLA?" Partial List of Panelists: Francie Bishop Good, Noor Blazekovic, Dana Donaty, Morel Doucet,
Jane Hart, Sri Prabha
Sri Prabha receives 2016 South Florida Cultural Consortium Award
http://www.broward.org/Arts/Artists/SouthFloridaCulturalConsortium/Pages/Sri-Prabha.aspx
Created in 1985, the South Florida Cultural Consortium is an alliance of the local arts agencies of Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. The Consortium’s mission is to develop cultural excellence and accessibility through collaboration among our counties. The arts agencies share strategies from the great cultural work in each of our communities and pool resources to initiate joint projects that take advantage of this collaboration.
Each year, more than 300 artists who live and work throughout the five counties submit their applications for consideration to the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Grant Program for Visual and Media Artists. The Consortium is a partnership of the local arts agencies of these five counties. Through these agencies, applications are made available to artists in the region. Submissions are grouped by County.
A regional panel of visual and media art experts from South Florida is convened to provide an initial review of the submissions. The regional panel forwards its recommendations to the national panel. This national panel – with expertise in visual art, film, and media and chosen from a variety of academic and major visual arts institutions from around the country – is given the responsibility of recommending the final recipients.
During a day-long deliberation, the submissions are viewed by the national panel in a series of rounds. The panelists then reduce the selection to the final group of awardees. The funding available from each county determines the number of awards presented from each county. The dynamics of the panel shape the selections from year to year. Merit is determined based on individual accomplishments as evidenced by the work submitted for review, with the highest premium placed on coherent bodies of work.
The national panel’s recommendations are reviewed and ratified by the South Florida Cultural Consortium.
All panelists are required to follow the conflict of interest policy established by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
http://www.broward.org/Arts/Artists/SouthFloridaCulturalConsortium/Pages/Sri-Prabha.aspx
Created in 1985, the South Florida Cultural Consortium is an alliance of the local arts agencies of Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. The Consortium’s mission is to develop cultural excellence and accessibility through collaboration among our counties. The arts agencies share strategies from the great cultural work in each of our communities and pool resources to initiate joint projects that take advantage of this collaboration.
Each year, more than 300 artists who live and work throughout the five counties submit their applications for consideration to the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Grant Program for Visual and Media Artists. The Consortium is a partnership of the local arts agencies of these five counties. Through these agencies, applications are made available to artists in the region. Submissions are grouped by County.
A regional panel of visual and media art experts from South Florida is convened to provide an initial review of the submissions. The regional panel forwards its recommendations to the national panel. This national panel – with expertise in visual art, film, and media and chosen from a variety of academic and major visual arts institutions from around the country – is given the responsibility of recommending the final recipients.
During a day-long deliberation, the submissions are viewed by the national panel in a series of rounds. The panelists then reduce the selection to the final group of awardees. The funding available from each county determines the number of awards presented from each county. The dynamics of the panel shape the selections from year to year. Merit is determined based on individual accomplishments as evidenced by the work submitted for review, with the highest premium placed on coherent bodies of work.
The national panel’s recommendations are reviewed and ratified by the South Florida Cultural Consortium.
All panelists are required to follow the conflict of interest policy established by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
Career City at Dillard Elementary with Ranger Good Works Non Profit outreach.
Career City at Dillard Elementary
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 ~ 7:30am – 12:00pm
Ranger Good Works opens its arms to the community, friends, and family. Our member base consists of at-will Volunteer Professionals who dedicate their time and talent to aid and improve the quality of life for our citizens. Giving back to the community is a core value for our organization and our members. Through volunteer hours, donations, technology solutions, marketing efforts, software services, and connections, Ranger Good Works supports programs and organizations that address the needs of our local under-resourced communities throughout South Florida.The Ranger Good Works initiative was designed to meet the needs of our employees, friends, family and each of our interest in helping and making a difference in the community we live in. We all feel good when we know we have changed a person’s life for the better.
Career City at Dillard Elementary
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 ~ 7:30am – 12:00pm
Ranger Good Works opens its arms to the community, friends, and family. Our member base consists of at-will Volunteer Professionals who dedicate their time and talent to aid and improve the quality of life for our citizens. Giving back to the community is a core value for our organization and our members. Through volunteer hours, donations, technology solutions, marketing efforts, software services, and connections, Ranger Good Works supports programs and organizations that address the needs of our local under-resourced communities throughout South Florida.The Ranger Good Works initiative was designed to meet the needs of our employees, friends, family and each of our interest in helping and making a difference in the community we live in. We all feel good when we know we have changed a person’s life for the better.
ART SALON: May 3rd 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Sri Prabha - Art As a Conduit to the Interconnected Cosmos - Synthesizing the Possibilities Across Ecology, Geology, and Science
Armory Art Center
1700 Parker Ave, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Please click on link for details.
https://www.prod.facebook.com/events/196453650746068/
Sri Prabha - Art As a Conduit to the Interconnected Cosmos - Synthesizing the Possibilities Across Ecology, Geology, and Science
Armory Art Center
1700 Parker Ave, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Please click on link for details.
https://www.prod.facebook.com/events/196453650746068/
10 Broward Visual Artists You Need to Know, by Andrea Richard,
Broward Palm Beach New Times
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/ten-broward-visual-artists-you-need-to-know-7590313
Excerpt
A trippy journey to the cosmos is what viewers can experience when exploring one of Sri Prabha's mixed-media installations. The Indian-born, Seattle Cornish College of the Arts educated artist, knows how to playfully introduce scientific discoveries into art making. His works, nearly fantastical in nature, explore his deepest thoughts and questions about the nature of humanity. He integrates subjects often not seen around the South Florida art-sphere, such as geology, nature, time, and human origins, into his work. A walk around his large-scale installations features a dash of sensory overload through his use of experimental sounds and abstract video projections juxtaposed with sculpture, paintings, and prints. Onlookers can take it all in, in a meditative state as the artist intended, or stargaze while enjoying a geological time exploration before heading off into another orbit.
Broward Palm Beach New Times
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/ten-broward-visual-artists-you-need-to-know-7590313
Excerpt
A trippy journey to the cosmos is what viewers can experience when exploring one of Sri Prabha's mixed-media installations. The Indian-born, Seattle Cornish College of the Arts educated artist, knows how to playfully introduce scientific discoveries into art making. His works, nearly fantastical in nature, explore his deepest thoughts and questions about the nature of humanity. He integrates subjects often not seen around the South Florida art-sphere, such as geology, nature, time, and human origins, into his work. A walk around his large-scale installations features a dash of sensory overload through his use of experimental sounds and abstract video projections juxtaposed with sculpture, paintings, and prints. Onlookers can take it all in, in a meditative state as the artist intended, or stargaze while enjoying a geological time exploration before heading off into another orbit.
The Night Lands, video installation on view thru January at 100+ Degrees in The Shade
Art Basel Week Reception, Tuesday, December 1st , 7-10pm
3900 North Miami Ave. (Design District)
December 1st, Tuesday, 7-10PM Reception
Excerpt about The Night Lands by Sri Prabha from Broward Palm Beach New Times By Andrea Richard Tuesday, November 10, 2015 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/punky-curator-jane-hart-resurfaces-with-an-ambitious-all-media-show-7384426
Broward resident Sri Prabha, a major installation mixed-media artist who was named New Times Best Visual Artist 2015, is showing new work called The Night Lands, featuring other-worldly video projections and actual geological samples such as optical calcite, volcanic rock from craters of the moon, and fossils he collected during a summer artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming.
"If you take someone and put them on a different planet — we are 50 years away from manned expeditions on Mars; it's not too far away — you realize it equalizes our ethnographic differences," Prabha says. "The Night Lands looks at geology, time, consciousness, and how they all interplay in our daily lives. The idea is to feel like you are on an archaeological survey on some planet somewhere."
His installation will be shown at 3900 N. Miami Ave., in Miami's Design District.
Art Basel Week Reception, Tuesday, December 1st , 7-10pm
3900 North Miami Ave. (Design District)
December 1st, Tuesday, 7-10PM Reception
Excerpt about The Night Lands by Sri Prabha from Broward Palm Beach New Times By Andrea Richard Tuesday, November 10, 2015 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/punky-curator-jane-hart-resurfaces-with-an-ambitious-all-media-show-7384426
Broward resident Sri Prabha, a major installation mixed-media artist who was named New Times Best Visual Artist 2015, is showing new work called The Night Lands, featuring other-worldly video projections and actual geological samples such as optical calcite, volcanic rock from craters of the moon, and fossils he collected during a summer artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming.
"If you take someone and put them on a different planet — we are 50 years away from manned expeditions on Mars; it's not too far away — you realize it equalizes our ethnographic differences," Prabha says. "The Night Lands looks at geology, time, consciousness, and how they all interplay in our daily lives. The idea is to feel like you are on an archaeological survey on some planet somewhere."
His installation will be shown at 3900 N. Miami Ave., in Miami's Design District.
Miami Herald. South Florida galleries provide Art Basel’s local afterglow
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article47393270.html
By Anne Tschida
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article47393270.html
By Anne Tschida
Inclusion in the 2015 International Photo Review Competition Issue.
http://www.photoreview.org/wordpressindex/wp-content/gallery/2015-competition-winners/PrabhaSr_1.jpg
Seventh All-Media Juried Biennial
September 19 – November 1,2015
Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 18, 2015
6 – 9 pm
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
SUMMER RESIDENCY in WYOMING!
I'll be away July for an awesome artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.brushcreekarts.org/
http://www.photoreview.org/wordpressindex/wp-content/gallery/2015-competition-winners/PrabhaSr_1.jpg
Seventh All-Media Juried Biennial
September 19 – November 1,2015
Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 18, 2015
6 – 9 pm
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
SUMMER RESIDENCY in WYOMING!
I'll be away July for an awesome artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.brushcreekarts.org/
Best Visual Artist 2015
Broward New Times : http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/best-of/2015/arts-and-entertainment/best-visual-artist-7039281
Broward New Times : http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/best-of/2015/arts-and-entertainment/best-visual-artist-7039281
At Young at Art, rooms of one's own
By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com
Official Broward 100 Sanctioned Event #broward100
http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-sri-prabha-davie-young-art-museum-20150127,0,6053467.story
http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-orbiting-cathedrals-sri-prabha-20150128,0,4933709.premiumvideo
By Phillip Valys
At Young at Art Museum in Davie, artist Sri Prabha has turned one gallery into a crystal-filled grotto where video art collides with science and spiritual meditation.
Light from nine video projectors dances and shimmers on the walls and ceiling, which are encrusted with crystal stalactites (not real, but painted Styrofoam) that stick out at 45-degree angles. On nearby pedestals are personal belongings such as metal cups and lockets covered in more crystal (real), which Prabha creates by dipping the objects in a solution of potassium aluminum sulfate. Images of mandalalike kaleidoscopes twist and jump around the room, as does video footage of solar flares, tides, crystal formations, trees and star clusters.
"It's like making an awesome curry, a huge beautiful medley. It's controlled chaos," Prabha, 45, says during a walkthrough of his new "Orbiting Cathedrals" exhibition, stopping to admire the color patterns.
Starting Friday, Jan. 30, four rooms in the museum will house the Hollywood artist's otherworldly video-projected art, where Prabha says visions of outer space can collide with spirituality and the unconscious mind.
"I don't want to be so conceited and say this is a place of enlightenment, obviously, but you can let your senses go and your consciousness expand in here," Prabha says. "In the old days, we went to cathedrals to find enlightenment. I figure these rooms will let us reflect on our own humanity. In a way, I feel like all my video art is like a Rorschach test, because what you see is unique to you."
Prabha collected a master's degree in clinical psychology at Argosy University near San Francisco, where he lived before moving to Hollywood in 2013 with his wife. He cites Bill Viola's experimental videos and David Lynch's eerie, "Eraserhead"-era films as inspiration for his video art. Though he no longer practices Hinduism, Prabha is fascinated with Hindu meditation principles learned in his hometown of Hyderabad, India.
"I'm more of an agnostic now. I do it for myself. But I also want to honor Jung's theories about the deep unconsciousness," says Prabha, who earned his undergraduate degree in video art at Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle and taught graphic design until 2005.
This is why science and spirituality, he says, tend to intertwine often in his video animations, created using five graphic-design software programs. Visitors who duck through a crawlspace carved into the crystal room, for example, will emerge into a room filled with a slowly rotating International Space Station, coral reefs and schools of sea bass darting along the walls, set to Claude Debussy's "La Mer."
To Zach Spechler, who operates Young at Art's in-house art collective Bedlam Lorenz Assembly, the rooms are "places where Mother Nature is taking over."
"These crystal structures take over our personal belongings and turn it into a time capsule for the future," Spechler says.
By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com
Official Broward 100 Sanctioned Event #broward100
http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-sri-prabha-davie-young-art-museum-20150127,0,6053467.story
http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-orbiting-cathedrals-sri-prabha-20150128,0,4933709.premiumvideo
By Phillip Valys
At Young at Art Museum in Davie, artist Sri Prabha has turned one gallery into a crystal-filled grotto where video art collides with science and spiritual meditation.
Light from nine video projectors dances and shimmers on the walls and ceiling, which are encrusted with crystal stalactites (not real, but painted Styrofoam) that stick out at 45-degree angles. On nearby pedestals are personal belongings such as metal cups and lockets covered in more crystal (real), which Prabha creates by dipping the objects in a solution of potassium aluminum sulfate. Images of mandalalike kaleidoscopes twist and jump around the room, as does video footage of solar flares, tides, crystal formations, trees and star clusters.
"It's like making an awesome curry, a huge beautiful medley. It's controlled chaos," Prabha, 45, says during a walkthrough of his new "Orbiting Cathedrals" exhibition, stopping to admire the color patterns.
Starting Friday, Jan. 30, four rooms in the museum will house the Hollywood artist's otherworldly video-projected art, where Prabha says visions of outer space can collide with spirituality and the unconscious mind.
"I don't want to be so conceited and say this is a place of enlightenment, obviously, but you can let your senses go and your consciousness expand in here," Prabha says. "In the old days, we went to cathedrals to find enlightenment. I figure these rooms will let us reflect on our own humanity. In a way, I feel like all my video art is like a Rorschach test, because what you see is unique to you."
Prabha collected a master's degree in clinical psychology at Argosy University near San Francisco, where he lived before moving to Hollywood in 2013 with his wife. He cites Bill Viola's experimental videos and David Lynch's eerie, "Eraserhead"-era films as inspiration for his video art. Though he no longer practices Hinduism, Prabha is fascinated with Hindu meditation principles learned in his hometown of Hyderabad, India.
"I'm more of an agnostic now. I do it for myself. But I also want to honor Jung's theories about the deep unconsciousness," says Prabha, who earned his undergraduate degree in video art at Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle and taught graphic design until 2005.
This is why science and spirituality, he says, tend to intertwine often in his video animations, created using five graphic-design software programs. Visitors who duck through a crawlspace carved into the crystal room, for example, will emerge into a room filled with a slowly rotating International Space Station, coral reefs and schools of sea bass darting along the walls, set to Claude Debussy's "La Mer."
To Zach Spechler, who operates Young at Art's in-house art collective Bedlam Lorenz Assembly, the rooms are "places where Mother Nature is taking over."
"These crystal structures take over our personal belongings and turn it into a time capsule for the future," Spechler says.
The Art World Finds a New Home in Broward County,
Anthony Cave, Broward ,Palm Beach New Times September 2014
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2014/09/culture_in_broward_its_finally_here.php
Excerpt:
In January, prolific and emerging man-of-the-hour Sri Prabha will give a solo show at the museum. His "Orbiting Cathedrals" includes beautiful, science-meets-art, dreamy animation projections, sculptures, and installations. Spechler says that with "the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and all the great collectors in Miami, it's a very important time right now for Broward to find its own personal identity. With Art Basel becoming bigger and bigger... it's actually become one of the more important fairs in the world. Art Basel's presence is starting to project a yearlong vibe throughout South Florida that we can benefit from. In the past, Miami and Wynwood were happening in just December and only people in the art world knew about the art events year-round, but now that's changed. Miami is almost supersaturated, and Broward is local enough to create its own identity."
Anthony Cave, Broward ,Palm Beach New Times September 2014
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2014/09/culture_in_broward_its_finally_here.php
Excerpt:
In January, prolific and emerging man-of-the-hour Sri Prabha will give a solo show at the museum. His "Orbiting Cathedrals" includes beautiful, science-meets-art, dreamy animation projections, sculptures, and installations. Spechler says that with "the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and all the great collectors in Miami, it's a very important time right now for Broward to find its own personal identity. With Art Basel becoming bigger and bigger... it's actually become one of the more important fairs in the world. Art Basel's presence is starting to project a yearlong vibe throughout South Florida that we can benefit from. In the past, Miami and Wynwood were happening in just December and only people in the art world knew about the art events year-round, but now that's changed. Miami is almost supersaturated, and Broward is local enough to create its own identity."
Artist Talk: Tuesday, October 21st, 6:30 - 8 pm
Conversation on Art, Science & Design with artist Sri Prabha, critic Margery Gordon and astronomer & designer Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego
Sri Prabha will illuminate the multifaceted ideas and influences that inspired Outpost, his site-specific installation at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
Margery Gordon, founder of Arts Encounters, will moderate a discussion with Prabha and Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego, an astronomer who develops exhibitions at the science museum, on how artists can use innovative design and technology to explore how humans relate to the natural world.
Conversation on Art, Science & Design with artist Sri Prabha, critic Margery Gordon and astronomer & designer Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego
Sri Prabha will illuminate the multifaceted ideas and influences that inspired Outpost, his site-specific installation at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
Margery Gordon, founder of Arts Encounters, will moderate a discussion with Prabha and Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego, an astronomer who develops exhibitions at the science museum, on how artists can use innovative design and technology to explore how humans relate to the natural world.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
http://artandculturecenter.org/sri-prabha-outpost
Outpost
Sept. 6 – Nov. 2, 2014
Outpost is a site specific installation inspired by space, biology, and exploration. An otherworldly campsite is presented bathed in video and natural sounds. On view are basic shelters and a symbolic fireplace surrounded by mixed-media works inspired by images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, particle physics, microbiology, and an ongoing collaboration with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum.
http://artandculturecenter.org/sri-prabha-outpost
Outpost
Sept. 6 – Nov. 2, 2014
Outpost is a site specific installation inspired by space, biology, and exploration. An otherworldly campsite is presented bathed in video and natural sounds. On view are basic shelters and a symbolic fireplace surrounded by mixed-media works inspired by images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, particle physics, microbiology, and an ongoing collaboration with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum.
Critic’s review by Carlos Suarez de Jesus,
2012 Basel Edition,Irreversible Art Magazine
Sri Prabha’s uncanny work is inspired by an interest in popular science and by an inherent attraction to the ways all things appear to be interconnected. The native of Hyderabad, India, employs scientific iconography and recent discoveries that combine to convey not only the furthest boundaries of the heavens but also interior realms and everything in between. One also immediately notes his bold use of color and the labor-intensive process the artist engages in while creating works that are exquisitely detailed and meticulously crafted. For example in a recent piece titled Coalescing Galaxies, Varanasi, created from epoxy resin and pigment on wood, Prabha covers his composition in a deep field of crimson and upon the pristine surface places a glowing blue orb. It refracts interior patterns of swirling light suggestive of a twinkling celestial sphere or a star cluster. In it the artist also pays tribute to his homeland by naming India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges in the work’s title. In another work from the series, Coalescing Galaxies, Bahamas, rendered in the deep azure hue of the Caribbean waters, Prabha also places a shimmering orb on its surface but this time it transports viewers to the deepest depths of the ocean. In a cluster of smaller works from the series that appear more to allude to deep space rather than to the earthly bound, Prabha utilizes an almost twilight blue color across his compositions covered by iridescent yellow and orange globes that bring to mind far away galaxies while casting the illusion they are in a process of coalescing and dissolving at the same time.
2012 Basel Edition,Irreversible Art Magazine
Sri Prabha’s uncanny work is inspired by an interest in popular science and by an inherent attraction to the ways all things appear to be interconnected. The native of Hyderabad, India, employs scientific iconography and recent discoveries that combine to convey not only the furthest boundaries of the heavens but also interior realms and everything in between. One also immediately notes his bold use of color and the labor-intensive process the artist engages in while creating works that are exquisitely detailed and meticulously crafted. For example in a recent piece titled Coalescing Galaxies, Varanasi, created from epoxy resin and pigment on wood, Prabha covers his composition in a deep field of crimson and upon the pristine surface places a glowing blue orb. It refracts interior patterns of swirling light suggestive of a twinkling celestial sphere or a star cluster. In it the artist also pays tribute to his homeland by naming India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges in the work’s title. In another work from the series, Coalescing Galaxies, Bahamas, rendered in the deep azure hue of the Caribbean waters, Prabha also places a shimmering orb on its surface but this time it transports viewers to the deepest depths of the ocean. In a cluster of smaller works from the series that appear more to allude to deep space rather than to the earthly bound, Prabha utilizes an almost twilight blue color across his compositions covered by iridescent yellow and orange globes that bring to mind far away galaxies while casting the illusion they are in a process of coalescing and dissolving at the same time.
Planetarium AstroJam!
World Redeye
October 10,2014.
Planetarium AstroJam! is a special evening of live music, animation, improvisational dome projections and wonder. A stellar collision of science with visual, sonic & media arts under the historic Planetarium dome!
http://worldredeye.com/2014/10/planetarium-astrojam-at-patricia-and-phillip-frost-museum-of-science/
Miami, FL – October 10, 2014 - The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science continued its Astronomy Day: Stargazing into the Future celebration on Friday with Planetarium AstroJam!, a stellar collision of science with visual, sonic and media arts under the historic Planetarium dome. In partnership with the Borscht Film Festival, the event began with the Miami premiere of filmmaker Bernardo Britto’s animated short film, “Yearbook,” a 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Animation. This six-minute film follows the story of a man hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the impending demise of the planet. Following the film, Caroline Simpson, Ph.D., associate professor at Florida International University, gave a brief talk on exoplanets research. Guests then had the chance to observe the night sky on the Museum’s rooftop observatory before heading into the Planetarium to enjoy live music provided by local musicians Rob Goyanes and Brad Lovett, who specialize in combining punk, electronica, and rhythm into unique and fresh soundscapes. The music was accompanied by live improvisational dome projections provided by Miami artists Sri Prabha and Nayib Estefan, who synthesize science and engineering and the senses into art. The evening featured delicious libations courtesy of Reyka Vodka, Monkey Shoulder and Biscayne Bay Brewing Company.
World Redeye
October 10,2014.
Planetarium AstroJam! is a special evening of live music, animation, improvisational dome projections and wonder. A stellar collision of science with visual, sonic & media arts under the historic Planetarium dome!
http://worldredeye.com/2014/10/planetarium-astrojam-at-patricia-and-phillip-frost-museum-of-science/
Miami, FL – October 10, 2014 - The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science continued its Astronomy Day: Stargazing into the Future celebration on Friday with Planetarium AstroJam!, a stellar collision of science with visual, sonic and media arts under the historic Planetarium dome. In partnership with the Borscht Film Festival, the event began with the Miami premiere of filmmaker Bernardo Britto’s animated short film, “Yearbook,” a 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Animation. This six-minute film follows the story of a man hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the impending demise of the planet. Following the film, Caroline Simpson, Ph.D., associate professor at Florida International University, gave a brief talk on exoplanets research. Guests then had the chance to observe the night sky on the Museum’s rooftop observatory before heading into the Planetarium to enjoy live music provided by local musicians Rob Goyanes and Brad Lovett, who specialize in combining punk, electronica, and rhythm into unique and fresh soundscapes. The music was accompanied by live improvisational dome projections provided by Miami artists Sri Prabha and Nayib Estefan, who synthesize science and engineering and the senses into art. The evening featured delicious libations courtesy of Reyka Vodka, Monkey Shoulder and Biscayne Bay Brewing Company.
Hollywood Artcenter 2020 Art Walk Opening Features Sri Prabha's "Noise Reduction Experiment # 3" March 15,2014Broward New Times, Liz Tracy: September 2014
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2014/03/hollywood_artcenter_2020_sri_prabha_art_walk.php
Excerpt:
A new art space in Hollywood, FL, is getting some hype from Kimmy Drake, the singer of the city's super popular indie band, Beach Day. Drake calls Artcenter 2020, "really raw and super rad." She told us that tomorrow night is the perfect time to check out this hot spot. For one night only, at this month's Hollywood Art Walk on March 15, the gallery is showing an interactive, super spaced-out installation by Sri Prabha, Noise Reduction Experiment # 3.
"Noise Reduction Experiment # 3" is an interactive video art installation that, described in detail: "As you walk through the installation, the work reminds you of walking through the cosmos the stars, sea life, and DNA. The images are dynamic and moving. The idea is to remind ourselves that we are a part of humanity, and as a species, to think about the universe." He sees that as a way to dissolve the barriers of race and gender, uniting humanity.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2014/03/hollywood_artcenter_2020_sri_prabha_art_walk.php
Excerpt:
A new art space in Hollywood, FL, is getting some hype from Kimmy Drake, the singer of the city's super popular indie band, Beach Day. Drake calls Artcenter 2020, "really raw and super rad." She told us that tomorrow night is the perfect time to check out this hot spot. For one night only, at this month's Hollywood Art Walk on March 15, the gallery is showing an interactive, super spaced-out installation by Sri Prabha, Noise Reduction Experiment # 3.
"Noise Reduction Experiment # 3" is an interactive video art installation that, described in detail: "As you walk through the installation, the work reminds you of walking through the cosmos the stars, sea life, and DNA. The images are dynamic and moving. The idea is to remind ourselves that we are a part of humanity, and as a species, to think about the universe." He sees that as a way to dissolve the barriers of race and gender, uniting humanity.
Crystal Rover Beacon
Mixed media and multi projectors. Dimensions Variable.2014 At Haptic Colors, Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
uly 26th- August 30th
Haptic Colors at Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
Curated by Leah Brown, Christian Feneck and Peter Symons
Haptic; adjective:Relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects .
Haptic Colors is a group exhibition of artists who are using color in space to transcend the 2-dimensional picture plane. The five installations and two videos that are on view are non-representational, and necessitate physical proximity to the work to fully experience the optical and visually tactile malleabilities of each piece.
Mixed media and multi projectors. Dimensions Variable.2014 At Haptic Colors, Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
uly 26th- August 30th
Haptic Colors at Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
Curated by Leah Brown, Christian Feneck and Peter Symons
Haptic; adjective:Relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects .
Haptic Colors is a group exhibition of artists who are using color in space to transcend the 2-dimensional picture plane. The five installations and two videos that are on view are non-representational, and necessitate physical proximity to the work to fully experience the optical and visually tactile malleabilities of each piece.
Monthly Art Roundtable
July 15, 2014
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
http://www.moafl.org/home/events/2014/07/15/monthly-art-roundtable-sri-prabha-immersive-video-art-and-mixed-media
Reservations are required. RSVP to Collette Spence-Wilson at [email protected] or (954) 262-0221.
July 15, 2014
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
http://www.moafl.org/home/events/2014/07/15/monthly-art-roundtable-sri-prabha-immersive-video-art-and-mixed-media
Reservations are required. RSVP to Collette Spence-Wilson at [email protected] or (954) 262-0221.
May 23rd Cosmic Whirl Video Installation.
Video Projections at Young At Art Museum / Bedlam Lorenz Assembly
751 SW 121st Ave, Davie, FL 33325
http://bedlamlorenzassembly.wordpress.com/supersaturated/
MAY 23, 2014 | 7:30 – 11pm | ART RAFFLE | YOUNG AT ART MUSEUM
Video Projections at Young At Art Museum / Bedlam Lorenz Assembly
751 SW 121st Ave, Davie, FL 33325
http://bedlamlorenzassembly.wordpress.com/supersaturated/
MAY 23, 2014 | 7:30 – 11pm | ART RAFFLE | YOUNG AT ART MUSEUM
History Miami Dupont Building Installation
April 11,2014
Falarara and Prabha Projects Mixed media installation in the vault by Sri Prabha and Charles Falarara. "Untitled" dimensions variable,mixed media, and single channel video projection,2014. Lobby projections by Sri Prabha.
April 11,2014
Falarara and Prabha Projects Mixed media installation in the vault by Sri Prabha and Charles Falarara. "Untitled" dimensions variable,mixed media, and single channel video projection,2014. Lobby projections by Sri Prabha.
Noise Reduction Experiment #2 Installation ,Multiple projectors,mixed media,dimensions variable,2014.
February 2014. Ingraham Building,Miami Fl.
February 2014. Ingraham Building,Miami Fl.
APRIL- MAY 2013
6th All-Media Juried Biennial at The Hollywood Art and Culture Center.
Opening Reception: Fri., April 26, 6 – 9 pm
The All-Media Juried Biennial includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based artists. This year’s jurors are Hunter Braithwaite, Miami Rail editor, and Gean Moreno, founder of [NAME] Publications, critic, curator, and artist.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
Tel: 954. 921. 3274
Fax: 954. 921. 3273
Email: [email protected]
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Deering Estate Festival of the Arts
"SPEAK NOW" EXHIBITION OPENING
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
(Meet the Artist Reception at 6:00 pm. – Free and open to the public.)
Special Projects Curator Ralph Provisero and Artists
Deering Estate,
Cutler Bay,FL
http://www.deeringestate.org/pages/SoBay-Festival-of-the-Arts.aspx
Friday February 15,2013
Open Studios 7-10PM
Fountainhead, 7328 NW Miami Ct, Miami,FL 33150
6th All-Media Juried Biennial at The Hollywood Art and Culture Center.
Opening Reception: Fri., April 26, 6 – 9 pm
The All-Media Juried Biennial includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based artists. This year’s jurors are Hunter Braithwaite, Miami Rail editor, and Gean Moreno, founder of [NAME] Publications, critic, curator, and artist.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
Tel: 954. 921. 3274
Fax: 954. 921. 3273
Email: [email protected]
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Deering Estate Festival of the Arts
"SPEAK NOW" EXHIBITION OPENING
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
(Meet the Artist Reception at 6:00 pm. – Free and open to the public.)
Special Projects Curator Ralph Provisero and Artists
Deering Estate,
Cutler Bay,FL
http://www.deeringestate.org/pages/SoBay-Festival-of-the-Arts.aspx
Friday February 15,2013
Open Studios 7-10PM
Fountainhead, 7328 NW Miami Ct, Miami,FL 33150
July 18, 2012 - October 7, 2012
Big Art: Miniature Golf
The Boca Raton Museum of Art
T E E- O F F
Tuesday, July 17 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Enjoy light refreshments on the “19th hole”
Attire: Country club casual
11 artist designed fully-playable miniature golf courses. Designed by artists from across the United States, Big Art: Miniature Golf is a unique exhibition that explores the fusion between art, design and play.
501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432
In Mizner Park
T: 561.392.2500
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/stage/mini-golf-in-the-swamp-with-john-muir.jpg-20120717,0,2587700.photo
Artists Statement for our entry, a collaborative project by Sri Prabha and Charles Falarara :
The mini golf hole mixed media installation, “Golf in the Swamp With John Muir” is inspired by the intrepid and fabled explorer, John Muir. In 1867, he traveled into various swamplands in Florida and discovered amazing sights. We were enchanted by the discoveries he made and have recreated a small snapshot of those wonders in a playful setting for all to enjoy. Exotic flora and fauna along with the iconic Florida alligator in the swamplands set the stage for an amusing interplay of fun and history.
BigArt-Mini Golf Exhibit at The Boca Raton Museum of Art images of entry:
Golf in the Swamp with John Muir
RESIDENCY JUNE 2012
SESYNC (The Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) and Invasive Species
Water ballast and invasive species issues. Dr. Palmer head of SESYNC coordinated a visit with Dr. Tamburri from MERC, The Maritime Environmental Resource Center. The discussion was entitled ACT/MERC Fluorometry for Ballast Water Compliance Monitoring Workshop. (ACT is Alliance for Coastal Technologies.) trying to find the best ways and methods to limit invasive organisms that hitch a ride in the ballast of giant cargo ships from around the world.
SESYNC (The Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) and Invasive Species
Water ballast and invasive species issues. Dr. Palmer head of SESYNC coordinated a visit with Dr. Tamburri from MERC, The Maritime Environmental Resource Center. The discussion was entitled ACT/MERC Fluorometry for Ballast Water Compliance Monitoring Workshop. (ACT is Alliance for Coastal Technologies.) trying to find the best ways and methods to limit invasive organisms that hitch a ride in the ballast of giant cargo ships from around the world.