Echenique is a prolific artist, a caretaker, daughter and mother. Her works are most notably delicate slab built vessels with colorful glossy and matte 1950-ish patterns embossed and painted on the surfaces. The container is of a utilitarian form yet betrays itself by it's tender wavering lip and sculptural fragility.It is too beautiful to be put to use.
Larmier teaches and creates personal works that speak about her place in the world. Recently she downsized out of the house she had lived in for decades and the sculpture in this show revealed a black clay female "skin" suit hanging from a small metal hanger. Was it being packed away? Or is she laying "bare" and preparing for a future?
Pasternack had two separate porcelain and mixed media works hanging in the show. They were a "collage" of elements reminiscent of the coral bedrock of south Miami and the creatures inhabiting the shore. It is hard to know just where the illusion and the found object define themselves. Her pieces call for lots of hard looking!
The opening was last night, yet the show is up through the 2nd of January. The Coral Gables museum is located at 205 Aragon Avenue next to Books and Books.
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