University of Miami Gallery presents Anna Meier: Outsider

Saturday, May 12th from 6-9pm join us for the opening reception of a Master of Fine Arts exhibition by Anna Meier at the University of Miami Art Gallery in Wynwood. The University of Miami presents Outsider, a community-based project that draws on the complex history of Miami and focuses on the social and racial structures within the city’s different neighborhoods. Using natural materials gathered from the streets of Miami, artist Anna Meier has created ten wearable sculptures or body-scapes, each representing a different neighborhood in the city. She then returns to each neighborhood with the completed bodyscape and asks a passerby to take her photograph.

Outsider will feature these wearable sculptures and the 10 photographs of them taken in different locations around the city by different community members. The intention behind this work, is to explore and test the boundaries of racial, social, and class divides within Miami by inverting the traditional roles of subject and photographer, and to stimulate a dialogue about how race relations in Miami and the country can be improved. The work featured in Outsider is strange, eerie, and a little silly, a reminder that laughter is often the best way to break down barriers. Outsider will be on view from May 8 – 27, 2018.

Image: Anna Meier, Pinecrest/Coco Plum, 2018, 24″ x 36″ – photo credit: David William Carson