SaveArtSpace is proud to present Neo.Rev, a cross-media public art exhibition on bus shelter and billboard ad space during Miami Art Week 2021 and Art Basel.

A new renaissance? A birth of the new age? What will our post pandemic reality become? We’ve went from being self-involved to being self-reflective; Reinventing ourselves to form a new strategy from our collective experience. Creating a new chapter to push ourselves to do more for oneself and ones community. Now is the time to be reborn back into a new era of creativity.

The SaveArtSpace: Neo.Rev selected artists are Brian Butler, RUTAMFI, Logan Fazio, Aminta Paiz, Denise Treizman, Leah Guzman, Tara Chadwick, Lizzie Suarez, Carolina Kleine Samson, Monica McGivern, Lou Patrou, Mary Lindstrom, Gigi Chen, Jennifer Deppe Parker, Jeff Bartell, Kamal X, Faith Aya, Stephanie Hatch, and Benzi.

Curated by local Miami artist Haiiileen.

During the week of November 22, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on billboard and bus shelter ad spaces throughout Miami, FL. An exhibition with the original artwork will mount at The Missing Paart 380 NW 24th St, Miami, FL from December 1 to December 5, 2021, 11a-1a, with an opening reception on December 1, 6p-1a.

Selected Artists

Location: 3484 NW N River Dr, Miami

Brian Butler is a Miami based artist and sketchbook wrestler. His talents range from drawing concerts and painting murals, to strategizing campaigns, and teaching professional basketball players how to paint. 3D modeling cartoon clams has been a recent hobby.

Miami's landscape and dynamics are forever evolving. It is the responsibility of the artist to evolve weirder. Enter clams. They are a visualization of that.

Connect with Brian on Instagram at @upperhandart.

Location: 2441 NW 2nd Ave, Miami

My name is Ruth Burotte i.e. RUTAMFI, a Haitian-American Multimedia Illustrator. I indulge in the visual language of character design to examine the ideas of capitalist consumptions, identity, and self-awareness of first world culture. I am a visual storyteller creating culturally engaging motifs combining manga style character designs, graphic images and digital components with street wear, hip-hop, anime and sneaker culture. By utilizing art direction methods and mix media techniques to further conceptualize my illustration interests. My goal is to have the viewer become aware of the place and time we currently reside in and to understand that many of the items and objects we interact with can become a part of our identity.

My works stem from illustrations of a character that can be deemed underrepresented, usually black and female. I fit the character into outfits I study from fashion magazines and clothing accessories that can be bought, sold, and resold for hundreds of dollars and meant for wealthy figures, but subvert those items to make them fit in a rugged and aggressive fashion. By embracing the things that societies and cultures might deem as publicized, I add an anti-establishing element to overtake expectations.

Connect with RUTAMFI on Instagram @rutamfi.

Location: 3335 NW 7th Ave, Miami

Logan Fazio is a Florida native photojournalist and fine art photographer with an eye for capturing candid anonymous subjects on analog 35mm film. The negatives are altered during the processing stage by introducing various liquids, such as seawater, which causes an unpredictable effect on the film's emulsion. While part of the photographic process is deliberate and calculated, the final image results can vary greatly. This playful experimentation allows the artist to relinquish control in anticipation of a random outcome. The results are akin to psychedelic snapshots of unidentified figures in a surrealistic setting that allow the viewer to engage in their own memories, dreams, and colorful visions.

Connect with Logan on Instagram @loganfazio.

Location: 2336 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Aminta Paiz is passionate about experimenting, exploring, trying multiple mediums at once if possible. I love to play and be free, not following rules or structure. I enjoy the surprise factor. I experience extreme joy and extreme pain. I'm an emotional roller coaster.

I create to connect with myself, to dive deep into my emotions, to heal, to liberate, to flow, to exist.

The more I know myself, the better I can interact with the world around me and contribute to make it a better place with kindness and compassion towards others.

My piece is called - Rebirth

I find myself being reborn everyday, unlearning old patterns and becoming who I decide to be.

Connect with Aminta on Instagram @aminta_paiz.

Location: 3225 SW 8th St, Miami

Denise Treizman is an artist born and raised in Chile, currently based in Miami, FL. She has an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has been exhibited in several cities of the world, including Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Shanghai (China), Madrid (Spain), Berlin (Germany), San Francisco, New Jersey, Miami, Chicago and New York (USA). Treizman has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center Residency receiving the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation fellowship award for Latin American Artists (Johnson, VT), Ox-Bow Residency (Saugatuck, MI), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), ACRE Residency (Steuben, WI), Triangle Workshop (Salem, NY) and MASS MoCA Assets for the Artists Residency. (North Adams, MA). She was a fellow at the Bronx’s Museum Artist in the Marketplace program (AIM program), where she was also awarded a commission for a public art installation at Randall’s Island Park. Between 2015-2018, she was a studio resident at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City. Treizman has had solo exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery (New York, NY), Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space (Bronx, NY), Soho20 Gallery +/- Project Space (Brooklyn, NY) and Proto Gomez Gallery (New York, NY). She is currently a new resident at the Laundromat Art Space in Miami.

Denise Treizman is an artist that creates sculptures and installation-based works, combining found objects with drawings, weavings and ceramics. Her work questions pervasive consumer culture, waste and excess by re- appropriating overlooked and underutilized materials into playful works of art. Guided by intuition, she explores material relationships, chance and resourcefulness. For Denise, the city is the ultimate creative source, providing her with an unending supply of eclectic and everyday objects. Working both on the street and the studio, she examines how worthless fragments can be transformed into unexpected art experiences. Her process is at once an act of artistic ownership over her materials as well as an exploration of the infinite possibilities that they afford her.

Connect with Denise on Instagram @denisetreizman.

Leah Guzman Celestial Being I & II

Location: 2700 N Miami Ave, Miami

Leah Guzman is a professional artist and Board Certified Art Therapist. Leah is a mixed media painter whose style is contemporary, symbolic, and spirited in nature.

Her mission is to offer the gift of creativity to others as a way to heal and manifest their most authentic self and best life. She provides online art therapy sessions and programs to support creatives teaching the tools to align your energy and attract your desires. She incorporates a holistic approach to up-level every area of your life. Her most recent best seller book is, “The Art of Healing and Manifesting”.

This series of paintings are about connecting to a higher power (also known as Source). As you connect you can call in your desires. This is about listening to your intuition and tapping into the Universe's power. I personally love dreaming big about my art and life. Whenever I am in alignment I receive signs from the Universe, such as the rainbow.

Connect with Leah on Instagram at @leah.guzman.art.

Location: 3136 NW 27th Ave, Miami

Since the age of four, Tara Chadwick has engaged local and international audiences in the art of achieving harmony with nature through music, percussion, movement and experiential knowledge production. After pursuing studies in sociocultural anthropology and a professional practice in archaeology and museology spanning three decades, Tara has returned to her childhood passion of community education through art and cultural engagement.

Tara’s work has been included in local, national and international settings, from Toronto to Minneapolis/ Saint Paul to Belize, Sydney, Hong Kong and Mexico City. In recent years, Tara has led movement based interactive art installations at the Orlando Museum of Art, Perez Art Museum, and the Doral Contemporary ArtMuseum. She has recently showed at Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, Alliance for Arts, Winter Park, Bayfront Park and the AIM Biennial. This winter, Tara will be launching “Proyecto Papalotl,” engaging Golden Age Adults in the art of Mesoamerican Danza, made possible with support from the Broward County Cultural Division and sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Tara is an Indigenous woman, a member of the African Diaspora, a grandchild of the Maya and Mesoamerican People of Belize, Mexico and Central America and a granddaughter of the original people of the land we now know as Western Europe. It is her vision that we can all return to a life of harmony with the cycles of nature.

As we attempt to balance our attention equally on past, present and future, an inner voice of reason and nature coaxes us to glide with the rhythms of the universe; to practice kindness to ourselves and by extension, each other’s selves; to take note of things we do to enact change within and without.

The emergence of a new self from a chrysalis of unfathomable transformation models a path to an ideal not yet imagined. A destination where infinity exists in cycles powered by love, for that is the true role of a matriarch: hold fast to the past and future and ensure the present generation is guided and grounded in traditions of empathy.

In this moment we are all children of the matriarch, responsible and beholden to ensure her wellbeing and in doing so, also our own. Journeying together on the winds of time to remember and repair what we’ve forgotten; preparing a path to wellbeing, accountability and justice.

Proyecto Papalotl uses the art of dance to heighten public awareness of the role all humans play in our ecosystem by infusing South Florida with opportunities for residents and visitors of all ages to engage in high quality, transformative experiences in traditional Mesoamerican danza. This project is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture (Section 286.25, Florida Statutes).

Connect with Tara on Instagram at @bawshkeengwabigun.

Location: 3050 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

​Lizzie, a.k.a Mama Lucha, is a digital art worker and illustrator born and raised in Miami, FL. Lizzie’s work centers a queer, abolitionist politic that amplifies the actions of community and labor organizers and agitates audiences to think about a world where everyone is cared for and no one is left behind. Art is not separate from politics and it’s through this lens that Mama Lucha remains accountable to people’s movements and struggles.

Connect with Lizzie on Instagram at @mama____lucha.

Location: 1227 NW 29th St, Miami

Carolina Kleine Samson is an artist who was born in the internet cloud to later bring those practices to physical space “from the screen to the floor”

Her development began in 2015, questioning the use of social media. Through the creation of an anonymous and open profile "Sacha Toncovich" (anyone could log in), she started to interact with a group of anonymous users that began to use Facebook as a tool for artistic creation and collective exchange, where the interfaces and the meta message were an everyday language within this microworld.

Carolina is currently running @loading.festival a project for digital and internet artists in Miami, and she is skate painting the facebook passwords of the open profile that she used to have.

Connect with Carolina on Instagram @carolina_toncovich or on Facebook.

Location: 900 Washington Ave, Miami Beach

Monica McGivern is a multi-disciplinary artist who is best known for her work documenting music and contemporary art culture. Her extensive archive explores the role of photography, both analog and digital, in society as art object, and witness. 

Photographic studies in social awareness are often combined with McGivern’s creative writing and performance art, to result in enigmatic live shows featuring original music compositions and visuals. 

McGivern studied editorial photography at the Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale, and established her career photographing for publications such as the Palm Beach Daily News, Miami Herald, L'Express (Paris),  Miami New Times, LA Weekly, and OOR Muzikant Magazine (Netherlands), among others.

She has exhibited in group shows at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, The Bass, Locust Projects, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, had work projected in Times Square, The Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes, France, and broadcast on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

When she’s not photographing, she’s making waves playing bass guitar with her band, Haute Tension. The surf noir trio’s debut album was recognized by the Miami New Times as “Best Local Album.” 

Lauded for capturing the raucous energy of their live performances, the band recently presented a new track entitled “Surfin’ in the M.I.A.” that represents their reemergence as one of Miami’s most active and critically acclaimed rock units.

Connect with Monica on Instagram @monicamcgivern.

Lou Patrou Blue Barney & Red Betty

Location: 4119 NW 2nd Ave, Miami

Lou Patrou is an American born artist who lives in the greater New York City region in the Hudson Valley NY.

He has been drawing and painting faces and figures since the mid 1960s and has a portfolio that spans over four decades. Lou’s work is some times difficult to categorize because he doesn’t always use the same artistic language, repeat the same disciplines or follow a predictable straight direction with his work. Some pieces may be whimsical and colorful that have a playful feel, others a strong design sense, some are serious black & white surrealistic pieces and others pop iconic graphics.

In the 1980’s he did a lot of spontaneous works and now plans his drawings and paintings out more carefully with more design focus and also has scaled up the work considerably.

The one definitive thing you could say is that he is obsessed with making faces and finding new ways to create designs and forms out of them as well as inside of them.

Over the past 10 years Lou has been very involved in product development and licensing, and has been incorporating his work into product and brand design. His pair of two large black & white drawings called Hank & Sylvie done in 2010 have since been digitally colorized and converted into a lifestyle and apparel brand.

Lou has exhibited his work in galleries in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles, London and upstate New York. He exhibits his original work in galleries and also produces limited edition prints and NFTs. His images have been published in multiple international magazines and in countless online art & design blogs.

Connect with Lou on Instagram at @loupatrou.

Location: 821 17th St, Miami Beach

Mary Lindstrom is a Russian born, Miami raised interdisciplinary artist and 3D designer. She is currently based in New York where she majored in 3D Animation and VFX at The School of Visual Arts. Her work is enigmatic and imbued with a sense of mysticism. Her creative scope includes illustration, 3D animation with an emphasis on procedural/algorithmic workflows, and creative programming for synesthetic interactive immersive experiences.

Mary’s body of work recruits mundane elements of everyday life and juxtaposes them to create uncanny spaces, inducing mundanity with a sense of alien familiarity and enigmatic intrigue. The dynamic metaphysical compositions with layered depths are guided by automatism - creating a computational narrative that still adheres to an abstract, human framework. There is control over the process, but also a release and surrender to the universe. This parallel relates to 3D software as well, which is powered by mathematical equations and physical computations that pertain to our real tangible earthly world, that then get combined with the artist's input. Automatism is ever present as the universe is always a co-collaborator on every work, whether it’s letting your consciousness guide your drawing or allowing for real world math and science to take the wheel of one's creations. At times one will sense rare, odd, effervescent glimpses and occurrences that are imbued with transcendental meaning and comprise a puzzle piece to an existing imagined network. Always in the pursuit of a certain flash of iridescence. The glittering magical epiphanous fleeting feeling is what she depicts. It ultimately signifies one’s reverence for life and affirms the sacredness of humanity.

Her 3D work is heavily influenced and derived from her fine art. The tangible physicality of painting creates a balanced contrast with the infinite digitized depths of computer art. Invoking the push and pull between body and mind. Interlooping symbiosis of technology and self.

Self Catalyzing Structure of Creation's Energetic Essence by Mary Lindstrom.

The title of this piece is meant to relay the nature of people coming together for the sake of artwork. People may become entangled in the commercial and socio-political implications of the art world. However, taking a moment to detach from that aspect and appreciating a community of people coming together and revolving around something as abstract, hedonistic and human as art (as witnessed here during Art Week in Miami) is truly touching and beautiful. Energy of creation organizes and catalyzes itself.

In the piece "Self Catalyzing Structure of Creation's Energetic Essence", a trailing of energetic glass geometries loop from the central flower over to the person’s head. The shapes are varied yet cohesive - analogous to artists within a creative community. Around the person’s head the geometric shapes change their form and elongate, conveying a burgeoning motion of expansion, almost explosion. The shapes then trail back into the composition, into the darkness of the sky. It depicts creative inertia, interconnectivity and impact of creation.

Connect with Mary on Instagram at @mary_lindstrom.

Location: 1638 NW 20th St, Miami

Born in Guang Dong, China and raised in New York City, Gigi Chen’s work creates an aesthetic that combines her training as a traditional animator and painter, along with her love of  the techniques  of Old Masters. Entrenched in the art of storytelling, the work pulls together her love of  contemporary idioms of cartooning, photo realism, texture and design to produce works that coalesce into Love, Craft and Fun.

My recent paintings touch upon my complex feelings about Home, Safety and Love. Using different motifs such as animals, neon, urban scenes and nature, I play with different metaphors involving family, decorating, rearranging, moving and continuously chasing the Ideal of Home. 

Connect with Gigi on Instagram at @gigichen.art.

Location: 1805 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

In Jennifer Deppe Parker’s work, she examines how the unconscious mind can be engaged by combining her knowledge of design with her background in fine art. She thinks about art and design as integral to each other. Whether through Deppe Parker’s paintings, photographs, or mixed media collages, she believes that the most effective method for a person to connect with a complex message is through visual imagery. She explores layers of understanding and contemplates how colors, forms, patterns and abstract representations can influence our perspective.

Jennifer Deppe Parker has participated in exhibitions across the United States and internationally in Canada, Europe, and Asia. In 2019 she curated a permanent exhibition in Mount Sinai Hospital.

American, b. 1981, born, raised, & based in New York, New York

I create mixed-media macro portraits of the eyes of various individuals using pictured materials influenced by the subjects themselves. This approach is to highlight their perspective conveyed through the context of the most unique element of each living being -their eyes.

These eye portraits expanded into a series of black and white editioned prints that were created specifically to reflect the patterns and shapes that I saw within the iris. I am sensitive to how the vibrancy of a design awakenings feelings of excitement within us. At the same time, the composition of light and dark is intended to draw the viewer closer to the piece in order to focus on the contrast of the geometric shapes without a hidden agenda or distraction.

Connect with Jennifer on Instagram at @thingsisee_jdp.

Location: 101 SW 17th Ave, Miami

Jeff Bartell is a Brooklyn, NY based multi-disciplinary artist and creative, currently focused on digital drawings. Born and raised in Massachusetts, his work has been featured in dozens of solo and group shows across New England and beyond since 2005.

My current work is a reflection of—and reaction to—the absurdities, new found dimensions, and abstract qualities of the modern world. Humans are being forced to contend with numerous paradigm shifts simultaneously occurring in nature that create a sense of chaos and disorder as our new world reveals itself. I believe there is beauty in this liminal and transitional epoch that is inviting us all to increase our shared sense of fluidity and mutability. My work seeks to capture this complex and challenging dichotomy.

Connect with Jeff on Instagram at @thejeffbartell.

Location: 1228 NW 23rd St, Miami

Kamal X is self-taught documentary photographer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Photography found Kamal in 2015, after deciding to travel the world in honor of his best friend who passed away due to colon cancer. A hard truth that serves as a major influence in his creative style, which is rooted in telling stories that showcase the hidden truths of humanity that are often misunderstood. Last year Kamal’s work covering the BLM Protests of Oakland, CA and D.C. granted him the opportunity to be featured in the New York Times. Those works also generated him his first gallery appearance with 111 Minna Gallery of San Francisco, CA. Deciding to mold those images into a mini-series entitled The Beautiful: Oakland to D.C. he won 2nd place in Lensculture’s Black & White Photography Awards. More recently, Kamal was featured in Apple’s “Hometown” campaign which highlighted black photographers across America. Lastly, this year Kamal self-published his debut photography book, A Quest Supreme, which documents 5 years of traveling to over 40 countries in search of inner peace.

Photography found me at a time in my life where I felt confused and voiceless. I wasn’t sure of where I was internally and what direction I wanted my life to go. As I overcame my challenges I found myself drawn to creating images that evoke emotions rooted in the many universal elements of the human experience. My goal is to tell stories from all walks of life and give a raw voice to the world we live in, through compassion and honesty.

Connect with Kamal X on Instagram at @iamkamalx.

Faith Aya Oomza Uni & Two Suns

Location: 597 NW 27th Ave, Miami

Faith Aya is a multi-hyphenate creative, data scientist, and Afrofuturist living in Los Angeles. Her work sits at the intersection of media, art, and technology. She explores how human creativity and algorithms can collaborate together to create speculative visuals. She received a Stanford University BlackAir Grant to develop an AI co-creative system that enables her to imagine and render new worlds based on books and music lyrics.

As a Nigerian-American, Miami, FL native, and avid traveler, Faith Aya’s artwork is inspired by the fusion of Afrofuturism and Art Deco. Through coding, she infuses bright and deep colors from the tropics and the galaxy to create new worlds that expand our imagination. These AI-generated visuals are heavily influenced by Afrofuturism texts that cast visions of the future centering on the African diaspora blossoming with advanced science and technology, and culture. Afrofuturism is a lens to imagine the impossible and establish a space where black culture can thrive. Faith Aya believes that Afrofuturism generated by AI has the power to affirm the global Black experience.

“Afrofuturism should be a big tent of expanding borders of the possibilities for Black life.” - Alondra Nelson

Generating Binti Worlds is a multi-media collection that explores the intersection of Afrofuturism and Artificial Intelligence. The visuals are inspired by the Hugo award-winning book Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Faith Aya’s motivation for this collection was to co-create with AI to generate images that center on black joy experience as opposed to the historic focus on black trauma series explores these questions: Can humans and computers collaborate together to create innovative artifacts through co-creativity? Given the copious amount of negative imagery on the black experience in the media, can Creativity AI be used to change the narrative of the black experience?

Fueled by those questions, Faith Aya collaborated with the AI agent to render images and animations from the Binti text and images from the internet that describe the themes Behold and New Worlds Ignite Superpowers. Oomza Uni and Two Suns are two visuals from the Generating Binti Worlds collection that are a part of the Neo. Rev exhibit. These two visuals are from the first book of the Binti Trilogy. Faith Aya and her team are currently working on developing the complete Binti Trilogy visuals collection and adapting this approach to the music industry.

Connect with Faith on Instagram @creativeaya.ai.

Location: 1501 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Stephanie Hatch has been an artist her entire life, beginning her art career at a young age by winning coloring contests at the local department stores. She continued her art journey by exhibiting art in high school, then studying at Lewis & Clark College, abroad in Angers, France, and at Southern Oregon University, where she earned her BA in Art in 2006. After several years in Oakland, CA, where her work was included in over 20 shows in 4 years, she moved to Portland, OR, in 2017, where she currently resides. Her work is in the permanent collection at the University of Oregon, and has been published in a number of publications, including Portland’s Buckman Journal.

Growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Stephanie’s love and respect for the natural world came alive at an early age. She was also inspired by the vibrant neon colors of late 80s design and fashion and the saturation of Lisa Frank stationary. These early influences resurfaced in Stephanie’s work during the pandemic, as she incorporated neon hues into her palette, and began creating surreal landscapes after years of focusing on female figures in her work. For Grow Where It Will, Stephanie created acrylic paintings on paper, which she then cut apart and incorporated into her analog collage landscape. The resulting landscape combines feelings of optimistic childhood memories, carefree joy, and endless possibilities with a sense of awe and respect for the natural world.

Connect with Stephanie on Instagram @stephaniemariehatch.

Location: 3301 NE 2nd Ave, Miami

My name is Benzi and this is my Imagination.

I took my initial steps into the realm of visual and digital creation back in 2014, although the seeds that blossomed my artistic journey were planted in my home country of Israel. I began acting when I was just six years old, starring in TV commercials, as well as several box office hit movies. 

I was imprinted upon by the creative processes of filming, editing, and abstract expressionism at an early age. I believe that those childhood experiences influenced who I would later become as an artist and creator.

Years later, in my early 20’s, I embarked on a journey away from home and moved overseas to New York City. I was determined not only to discover my passions, but put all my energy into pursuing them. During those early years in NYC I kept myself busy in the food Industry and in 2008 co-founded the cupcake concept Baked By Melissa. 

In 2014, As fate would have it, I decided to create a video compilation for my sister’s 40th birthday because I could not travel home to celebrate with her in person, this became my first ever attempt at filming and editing. During that process, I felt a mix of emotions, including joy, curiosity, and fulfillment, which was something I had never before experienced from my professional career and it left me hungry for more.

I soon began filming every day and nearly everywhere I went, New York City was the perfect place to develop my style for audiovisual recording. For the next three years I continued to explore new ways to edit video with 'digital paint’, allowing me to translate my imagination into visual art. 

Suddenly, I was able to convey my imagination and communicate to others without the use of words. 

In 2016 I decided to dedicate my full time into digital art. In November 2017, I was offered an opportunity to showcase my work at an underground gallery during Art Basel Miami. I understood that in order to present my art I would need to create digital devices. Since then, I have sold over 150 custom digital objects incorporating my art.

From day one of my video art creation process, I’ve been passionate about working with and filming inspirational creatives whose art or music I can capture their message and then reinterpret through my own art. 

Connect with Benzi on Instagram at @benzistudio.

Curator

Location: 167 NE 13th St, Miami

First-generation Cuban-American and Miami, FL native Aileen Quintana, also known as Haiiileen, is an interdisciplinary artist known for her neo-acid experimental works that span through several different mediums and facets. Her dedication to the local artistic community fuels her capacity to create and tear down the boundaries that have yet to be explored within her own mind. Her initial breakthrough as a self-taught makeup artist led her to build a highly successful career utilizing faces as her canvases.

What makes Haiiileen’s practice so intrinsically distinctive is her synesthesia, a rare sensory condition which transforms everything she hears into visual imagery. For her, it is essential to explore emotional language and self-evolution, driven by a never-ending curiosity. This has led her to study physics, she is able to grasp a full understanding of how sound, light, and color all interact with one another. Haiiileen then incorporates her findings into 3-dimensional mediums and installations, where she can bring her synesthetic visions to life and transport her viewers to transcendent, alternate worlds. 

Haiiileen continuously exhibits her ability to create thought-provoking material that provides a deep expression and experimental approach to our environmental perceptions and conventional ideas of reality through her work.

Haiiileen is the lead visual artist for Tidal, a Google ambassador, and has worked on several commissions for III Points, Space Miami, SoHo Beach House, Delano Hotel, The City of Miami Beach, Art Basel, Frost Museum of Science, and more. 

Along with her practice, she is also a consultant, director, producer, designer, filmmaker, performance artist, sculptor, and installation artist.

Haiiileen was a SaveArtSpace selected artist for Miami Art Week 2020.

“My Forever Triiip” in essence represents the feeling an individual embraces when looking at themselves in the mirror. The ultimate guide to self-reflection and seeking truth with oneself in infinite ways by accepting the beauty and other versions of ourselves we have yet discovered. The takeaway for this reflective image is meant for you to dive deep into your self-awareness and grow in free flow. The artwork depicted is a mirror with custom-made paint creating a distorted effect as one looks down into the image portraying a universe within a universe. As of now, the artwork is displayed at the Edition Hotel in Miami Beach and “My Forever Triiip” 16’x52’ image is on a billboard and can be seen from the I95 Highway.

Connect with Haiiileen on Instagram at @haiiileen.

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