PAMM – Perez Art Museum Miami

The Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Herzog & de Meuron’s visual inspiration were Stiltsville in Biscayne Bay and Miami’s tropical trees, in particular banyans.
https://www.herzogdemeuron.com/projects/306-perez-artmuseum-miami/

“The Basel-based firmʼs latest foray into Miamiʼs unique milieu has produced the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), an inspired response to cityʼs subtropical climate and to its waterfront. Slender concrete columns support a deck raised over ground-level parking and a canopy that soars 23 metres high to shade a three-storey block of galleries and support spaces. The museum’s previous home was a hermetic Philip Johnson bunker that turned its back on the city; by contrast this new structure feels fluidly open and transparent. It reaches out through landscaped terraces to engage the bay, a string of public parks, the towers along Biscayne Boulevard, and its near neighbour, Grimshaw Architects’ Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science.” Michael Webb, The Architectural Review

PAMM – PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
“The Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County (PAMM) has been the flagship museum for Miami-Dade for almost 35 years. At its founding in 1984, the Museum was dedicated to international art of the 20th and 21st centuries, aiming to fill a void in a young city where no contemporary art museum existed. In 1994, we became a collecting institution, and recognizing the massive demographic change that took place in Miami in the previous decade, we refocused our mission to ensure the Museum reflected the city’s plurality of communities. In 2013, we continued to grow with our city, expanding into a 200,000-square foot campus prominently located on Biscayne Bay, between the American Airlines Arena to the south and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts to the north. Today we launch forward from this past. In line with the 400-year history of art collecting museums, we believe art and ideas have the power to enrich the lives of all people – they are an integral part of creating a more humane and just world. As a 21st-century institution, we believe that museums, alongside places of worship, libraries, schools, concert halls, and stadiums, are town halls for the people. These are places that offer opportunities for the healthy exchange of ideas paramount to citizens, promoting inclusivity across our communities, backgrounds, and experiences. We recognize that our city contains a diversity, and we seek to reflect that diversity in everything we do while embracing the power of art and creativity. PAMM aspires to fulfill these beliefs for the Miami of today and tomorrow. We are committed to international modern and contemporary art, and our home at the crossroads of the Americas also uniquely positions us to be the best at presenting art from the U.S. Latino experience, the African diaspora, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We showcase the diversity of 20th- and 21st-century artists, and our programs seek to educate and ensure that all people can participate in a conversation that shares art at its center.”
https://www.pamm.org/en/about/

ACCESS
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
Telephone: 305.375.3000
https://www.pamm.org/en/

MISSION
“Our mission is to be a leader in the presentation, study, interpretation, and care of international modern and contemporary art, while representing and cherishing the unique diversity of Miami-Dade. Through our exhibitions and programs, we aim to encourage everyone to see art as an incentive for genuine human interaction, communication, and exchange.”

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OR LONG-TERM LOAN

Rawles. On the Other Side of Everything, 2021. PAMM. Miami.

RAWLES. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING, 2021.
“Calida Rawles creates photorealistic yet ethereal depictions of Black bodies in water. Her paintings are based on hundreds of photographs that the artist takes of her subjects as she directs their movements in a swimming pool. Among the conceptual touchstones of Rawles’s work is an idea articulated by Toni Morrison in her essay “The Site of Memory,” in which the author states that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”Paintings such as On the Other Side of Everything feature subjects that appear to be drowning, as if submerged in the abominable history of the Transatlantic slave trade. Rawles’s imagery also touches on the connotations of water as a site of exclusion for Black people post-slavery, alluding, for example, to the Jim Crow-era segregationist laws that relegated Black Americans to less favorable beaches while banning them altogether from most public pools. Yet, at the same time, for Rawles, water still serves as a signifier for joy, healing, purification, and transcendence.”

RIOS. PLUMMED CREST, 1993.
“The mixed media and moving image artist Miguel Angel Ríos explores Latin America and its colonial past through a dynamic and conceptual investigation using the history of European map making as its base. Plumed Crest is part of the artist’s examination of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus arriving in the Caribbean Islands. The way that the artist cuts, contorts, and re-creates the maps is offered as criticism of the “discovery of the Americas” that has been a cornerstone of American history. The title and shape of this piece is a direct reference to El Penacho de Moctezuma, or Moctezuma’s headdress, a featherwork crown that tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma Il, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest.”

Soto. Penetrable BBL Blue 2/8, 1999. PAMM, Miami.

SOTO. PENETRABLE BBL BLEU, 1999.
“The Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection is pleased to announce the loan of Penetrable BBL Bleu to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)…First conceived in the late 1960s, Penetrables are recognized as some of the most comprehensive manifestations of Soto’s investigations into movement, matter, space and viewer participation. Penetrable BBL Bleu (2/8), produced in 1999, invites the visitor to freely walk into the work of art and become part of a vibrating world, where everything around seems to disappear, and reappear, as if dematerializing before our eyes.”
https://www.jcmc.art/artart-collection-announces-the-long-term-loan-of-penetrable-bbl-bleu-to-the-perez-art-museum-miami/

TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS LECTURE NOTES