SaveArtSpace is proud to present Patterns in Nature, a public art exhibition on bus shelter ad space in Miami Beach, Fl during Art Basel & Miami Art Week, starting December 1, 2023, curated by Jen Stark.

The Patterns in Nature selected artists are Bridget Klappert, Caro Arevalo, Chris Dyer, Di-Andre Caprice Davis, Helen Crispin, Jessica Alazraki, Michael Kutsche, Mieke Marple, Nicole Salcedo, and Olivia Maher.

Patterns in Nature explores the beauty of forms found in the natural world, where spirals and sacred geometries intertwine harmoniously. From camouflage and colors to intricate shapes, Patterns in Nature promises an enchanting exploration of the universe's artistry, revealing the breathtaking intersection of science, art and spirituality. With mathematical foundations such as the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence, patterns emerge at various levels and scales all throughout our world.

This public art exhibition aims to foster a deeper connection with our environment and acknowledge the subtle elegance woven into the fabric of existence, inspiring an appreciation for the underlying mathematical wonders that shape the universe. 

Starting December 1, 2023, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on bus shelter ad spaces in Miami Beach, Fl. The public art will be on view for at least one month.

Selected Artists

Location: Washington Ave & 16th St, Miami Beach, FL

Bridget Klappert was born in New York City and grew up in Topanga, California before studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her art practice functions as a continuing meditation on ideas about consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality. Working primarily in pen, marker, and paint on paper her drawings and paintings overflow with mesmerizing patterns and puzzle-like forms in psychedelic color palettes, existing in a realm that is constantly vacillating between chaos and order, playfulness and rigor, simplicity and mystical complexity.

Connect with Bridget on Instagram at @bridgetklappert.

Location: Alton Rd & N Bay Rd, Miami Beach, FL

My name is Caro Arévalo. I am a Peruvian visual artist based in Woodstock, NY.

My artwork is embodied in exploring the plant and fungi kingdoms as seen with our naked eyes and through the microscopes; the taxonomy and physicality of living beings as well as the invisible yet powerful spirit and consciousness each of them carries. My work starts by doing research in nature, followed by capturing it under the microscopes and then starting to work on paintings that express these microscopic observations as well as what has been recorded on the field.

My family comes from the jungle in Peru and from my Amazonian heritage I embrace the notion that we are all connected, the importance of rituals and ancestral wisdom, embracing our unity with nature in our daily lives. Through my paintings and videos I invite us to cultivate more love towards ourselves and our planet in order to stay creative, curious and aligned with our purpose in the world.

Connect with Caro on Instagram at @caro.arevalo.

Location: Collins Ave & 22nd St, Miami Beach, FL

Chris Dyer is a Peruvian Canadian visual artist now based in Saint Petersburg, Florida. 
A skateboarder since the mid 80’s his fine art career started with paintings on broken skates, which eventually led him to doing over 100 different commercial graphics for some of the biggest brands in that industry.

Chris’ funky expressions have always been important in his process of spiritual self-realization. These unique images has led him to be one of the most recognized artists of the Visionary Art movement. His canvas paintings have been exhibited at galleries and museums all over the planet.

Around 20 years ago Chris started to dive deeper into the medium of spray paint and by now has huge murals in magical places around the planet like the Bob Marley Museum in Jamaica, the Beatles Ashram in India, Balata refugee camp in Palestine, Havana DIY skate park in Cuba and Street Art Museums in Amsterdam, Peru and Russia.

Since 2004 Chris has been running a clothing brand called “Positive Creations” that has spread his soulful expressions as products worn by his many fans.

He also succeeded to sell out an NFT collection of 5555 units, creating a popular Web 3 community called the “Galaktic Gang” that still runs strong today.

In efforts to empower younger artists, Chris has taught art workshops all around the globe, including shamanic medicine retreats in the jungle of Peru, India and Thailand. 


His art has been included in several magazines including Thrasher, High Times and Juxtapoz, as well as been published in many books, a few of his own.

Other than this, he also enjoys creating video offerings like his Travel show and Podcast series on Youtube. 
Regardless of the medium or platform, Chris’ intentions is to serve as a spiritual Chanel of love and good vibes, hopefully serving medicine to humanity through his work. He is here as a servant of the Most High, which ives in every human.

Connect with Chris on Instagram at @chris_dyer.

Location: Washington Ave & 9th St, Miami Beach, FL

Di-Andre Caprice Davis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a self-described experimental artist whose practice focuses on a research-based alternative approach used to primarily explore form and the development of non-standard languages; through the engagement of the capacities inherent to new media. Abstraction, computer graphics, GIF art, glitch art, mathematics, photography and surrealism are some of the fascinations that animate her practice. Her works have been exhibited and screened in Jamaica, Australia, Barbados, Canada, UK, USA, Trinidad and Sweden.  

View more from my light my love vibration of colours (before the video art masterpiece) ongoing (2019 — ?) here: MLMLVOC

Notable exhibitions include the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Jamaica Biennial (2014 and 2017),Young Talent (2015), Digital (2016), Explorations VI Engaging Abstraction (2017 – 2018), Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora (2016) at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, United Kingdom and New Century/New Materials – Current Art Trends in Science and Technology (2019) at Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, USA. She completed art residencies at Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2016) and Alice Yard, Trinidad (2018). At the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, she won the award for Best Experimental Film for her work Chaotic Beauty, 2016, which has also been shown at The Dean Collection’s No Commission show during Art Basel Miami 2017.

Connect with Di-Andre on Instagram at @diandrecaprice and on Twitter at @diandrecaprice.

Location: 5th St & Meridian Ave, Miami Beach, FL

Helen Crispin, originally from Boulder, Colorado, is an artist and designer now based in the Bay Area. With a BFA in Drawing and Painting, and a MS in Architecture and Computational Ecologies, Helen combines these disciplines resulting in an overlap of geometric abstraction and biomorphic form making. Her work is primarily digital, utilizing 3D modeling, digital painting, custom generative software, and 3D animation.

Geometry, with its elegant ubiquity in the universe and natural world, is the primary inspiration in Helen’s creative practice. She views geometry as the substrate from which all forms emerge. She composes and manipulates geometry through operations like folding, mirroring, sculpting, warping and tessellating. This results in the emergence of complex digital realms of biophilic and geometric abstractions. The outcomes mimic nature, while also pointing to the limitless potential of incorporeal forms that can exist within digital environments.

Connect with Helen on Instagram at @helen_crispin_ and on Twitter at @Helen_Crispin_.

Location: 17th St & Pennsylvania Ave, Miami Beach, FL

Jessica Alazraki was born and raised in Mexico City, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Universidad Anáhuac. Since 1998, she’s been based in New York City. Jessica has exhibited her work in six solo exhibitions in the United States and in over 50 group exhibitions. In 2018, she received the Award of Excellence from the Huntington Arts Council and an Honorable Mention Award from the Barrett Art Center. In 2019, she participated in the ARTWorks Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and was selected into the Creative Capital NYC “El Taller” in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute. In 2020, Jessica completed the Trestle Art Space Residency Program, was awarded the New Work Grant by the Queens Art Fund, and won the Diane Etienne Founders Award from the Stamford Art Association. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Hopper Price Award and was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award. She participated in a group exhibit at MoCa Museum in Westport, CT. Jessica was named the 2021 MvVo AdArt Show winner and The Jackson Painting Prize Emerging Artist Award 2021. In 2022 she was selected for Fountainhead Artist Residency in Miami Fl. and participated in a group exhibit at Hudson Valley Moca Museum. And in 2023 was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award. Her work is featured in several publications including New American Paintings, No. 152, Northeast Issue.

Her works are in important collections like the Hort Family Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, the Jorge Perez Collection, the Lipson Collection, the Hornik Collection, the Whitley Collection, the 5M Collection, the Vascovitz Collection, the Gautereaux Collection, Straus Collection and more.

Art History inspires my narratives. Picnics are a common theme in European paintings; we see it with Manet, Seurat, and others. Colorful patterns dominate my contemporary version; using Latinx people, I distort the plane and the laws of anatomy and favor color and texture. I evoke a memory and a feeling more than a specific situation. 

Statement:

Jessica Alazraki brings together her experiences as an immigrant and artist to dismantle misconceptions of Latinx identity. By providing glimpses at the intimate moments of everyday life, her paintings immerse viewers in the radiant energy that challenges negatively perpetuated narratives with a celebration of people and culture.

With an in-depth knowledge of design, Alazraki translated her fascination with color palettes and patterns as an association of identity into new ways of communicating the unseen elements of daily life in immigrant households. Breaking apart traditional approaches to painting, she combines gestural and spontaneous elements associated with abstract painting into her figurative scenes. Textures and gestures emerge that heighten the development of not only the narrative of the overarching piece but also intensify the stories of her subjects.

As the abstract and realistic elements fuse together, the scenes teeter between the familiar and the surreal. Furthering this distortion, she plays with anatomical proportions, manipulates a sense of depth and perspective, and brings together unusual palettes of vibrant colors. The whimsical becomes the bizarre in her own collage aesthetic, allowing these characters' stories to differentiate from our own day-to-day.

Here, Alarzaki uses her raw, genuine, and free process of expression to emphasize the beauty and the energy inherent in these concealed displays of culture. Reimagining colors and patterns typically tied to the Latinx or immigrant identity, she creates relatable scenes that evoke shared sentiments of hope, loyalty, and family. She expresses the love, affection, and hardships that unite these families as they work to achieve a better life. In her displays, she invites viewers to rethink the impact and the cultural value of these individuals by recognizing the contributions of their resilient spirit.

By Charles Moore

Connect with Jessica on Instagram at @jessicaalazraki1.

Location: Washington Ave & 11th St, Miami Beach, FL

With an idiosyncratic approach of pairing seemingly contradictory visual elements of centuries-spanning artistic movements as well as mythical creatures, historical figures and pop culture elements, Michael Kutsche creates evocative paintings and animations that feel at once like fragments of anachronistic fairytales but also raise questions about the human condition and nostalgia, and ultimately force us to view past and present from a new angle.

His new work fragMental features elements from his previous works, such as the child-like characters that inhabit surreal spaces which are reminiscent of natural history museum dioramas but also elements which are subtle hints that these aren't real places, but rather a kind of digital afterlife or virtual reality.

The children seem to be symbolic for the child-like wonder and curiosity as we approach the new frontiers of the Metaverse, but the often slightly twisted fairytale-like beings who also roam these spaces are adding to a foreboding and mysterious atmosphere, and give reason to read these recurring pictorial arrangements as contemporary cautionary tales, and that to all this indulgence and promise of new technology and progress there is a tradeoff.

The large female figure that almost fills the entire frame evokes memories of the famous eat me cake-scene in Alice in Wonderland, and the rabbit hole analogy is also fitting with regards to the mysterious and highly contagious world of Web3 that seems to work by its very own set of rules. One other thing that stands out is that the girl seems to be a patchwork of different elements, and just like most of the figures in the work of the artist she is devoid of a face, as if to express that the further we move down that rabbit hole of social media and Web3 anonymity, the more fragmented our identities become.

One of the inspirations of the image is the enigmatic final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, of which the chair to the right of the moving painting was taken. It is no coincidence that the film's main theme is also a cautionary tale: It points at Pandora's box that artificial intelligence embodies, personified by the sentient control system Hal that spins out of control, and with AI applications currently evolving at unprecedented speed, the art fits right into the current Zeitgeist.

frag·men·tal was part of the Contemporary Discoveries | Down the Rabbit Hole sale by Sotheby's Hong Kong in February 2023.

Connect with Michael on Instagram at @michael_kutsche Twitter at @michaelkutsche.

Location: Collins Ave & 24th St , Miami Beach, FL

Mieke Marple is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Marple has exhibited internationally, including in "Techno-Healing" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia's first institutional NFT exhibition, and "Elan Vital" at MOCA Westport. Recent solo exhibitions include "Tarot Reckoning" and "Bed Feminist" at Ever Gold [Projects] in SF and "God is an Audiobook" at 1301PE in LA. She has been written about by The New York Times, W Magazine, The Guardian, Fortune, Elle, and Autre, among other publications. She has written for The Huffington Post, Lit Hub, Zyzzyva, ArtNews, and Artsy, among others. Through various charity art auctions, she has helped raise over a million and a half dollars for Planned Parenthood LA and a quarter million for prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance. She received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008. Marple was co-founder of NFTuesdayLA and co-owner of Night Gallery from 2011-2016. She is creator of the Medusa Collection, a set of generative art NFTs reframing the Medusa myth. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Crypto Art, Seattle NFT Museum, and McEvoy Family Collection.

Connect with Mieke on Instagram at @miekemarple.

Location: Washington Ave & 7th St, Miami Beach, FL

Nicole Salcedo is a Cuban-American multi-disciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida. She works in sculpture, fibers, performance and film, with a foundational practice in drawing and mark-making. Nicole’s drawings open up pathways that offer a deeper understanding of land-consciousness and the fractal connections between our bodies and the environment. Using repetitive marks to create patterns and webs of energy within her work. Incorporating human-elemental hybrid figures that reflect various scales of ecosystems and natural phenomena that exist within and around us. Salcedo’s influences include botany, fractals, the physics of electromagnetic energy, and her animistic spiritual practice. Her work builds off of a legacy of Cuban women artists such as Ana Mendieta and Belkis Ayón, whose imagery is potent with references to the spirits of nature and syncretic religions of the Caribbean.

Nicole currently has a studio residency at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, which is open to the public at 561 NW 32 St, Miami, Fl.

Connect with Nicole on Instagram at @nikkidreaming.

Location: 5th St & Michigan Ave, Miami Beach, FL

Olivia Maher is a 9-year-old elementary school student with a passion for art. Under the direction of her art teacher, Melissa Maxfield-Miranda, she created “Nature is Beautiful”, a woven watercolor piece. Nature is Beautiful was selected to be displayed in the 37th Annual Impressions in Watercolor Exhibition presented by the Miami Watercolor Society. Olivia’s favorite technique is watercolor, and she has recently begun taking portfolio classes and is experimenting with sketching. Olivia lives in Miami, Florida with her parents and little sister.

Connect with Olivia on Instagram at @olimaher14.

Curator

Location: Collins Ave & 21st St, Miami Beach, FL

Visual artist Jen Stark transforms complex ideas about fractals, evolution, color theory, topography, sacred geometries, and patterns of the universe into approachable and engaging works of art. Drawing upon an ever expanding use of material and technology, Stark allows her aesthetic to transcend all forms of media, ranging from paintings and sculptures, animations and installations, to interactive projections and NFTs.

Recently included as one of Fortune's "NFTy 50," Stark made history in March 2021 as the first female artist to make Foundation's top 10 highest selling NFT creatives. Over the course of her career, Stark's work has been exhibited globally, with major shows and public art installations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Thailand, and Canada. Her work is currently held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the West Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, NSU Art Museum, and MOCA Miami, among others. Stark lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Connect with Jen Stark on Instagram at @jenstark, or on Twitter at @Jen_Stark.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.