FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios and CasaCuba are proud to launch Contemporary, a new series of virtual conversations highlighting the influence of Cuban art. Join us for the inaugural event: Exploring Cuban Identity and the Other, featuring art historian and gallerist David Castillo in conversation with independent curator Danielle Damas.

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About David Castillo:

David Castillo cultivates artists with a far-reaching national and international impact on cultural and critical spaces. These spaces include museums and other institutions, private collections, and, importantly, also discourses on art through art publications and media. The gallery is an important platform for artists once excluded from the history of art and history more generally and who are now defining the aesthetics and critical ideas of our time. By successfully placing the work of its artists, David Castillo has advanced conversations on overlooked histories and has become an important space for inclusion and diversity of today’s great artists. The gallery’s artists are doing the work of reframing history: outlining their cross-disciplinary nature and their disobedience to be contained and fully understood. In multitudes of histories carried within, the artists’ works become diverse sites for reflection on the past and on the conditions of the present moment.
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About Danielle Damas:

Danielle Damas is an independent curator and creative consultant based in Miami, FL. She received her MFA in Visual Arts: Curatorial Practice in 2018 from Florida International University. Damas has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions at David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Bakehouse Art Complex. Her fine art writing has been published in the Miami Rail, Inspicio Magazine, and Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine.