06/23/2026
☕️✨ Opening June 25th at the Perez Art Museum Miami: Held in Layers: Selections from Collection, featuring Clara Varas’ The Altar, organized by , PAMM Curator
Held in Layers brings together a selection of contemporary paintings from PAMM’s collection, all of which are being presented for the first time. The exhibition offers a focused look at how painting is being approached today across a range of practices, highlighting diverse techniques, materials, and methods to image-making. From abstraction to works that engage figuration and objecthood, each painting reflects a distinct approach—foregrounding decisions around surface, structure, and process. Seen together, these works invite close looking. They draw attention to how paintings are built, revised, and resolved, offering insight into the varied languages contemporary painters employ. By bringing these works into view, the exhibition creates space to encounter painting in its current moment through the diversity of practices represented in the museum’s collection. Presenting artists are Lucy Bull, Tomm El-Saieh, Justine Hill, Paulo Nimer Pjota, and Clara Varas.
🗓️ June 25, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Museum Hours:
Thursday | 11am-9pm
Friday-Monday | 11am-6pm
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📍Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
Image:
Clara Varas. The Altar, 2016. Oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas, bedsheet, lamp, and coffee maker. 58 x 48 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by PAMM’s Young Collectors Council and Aliette H. Carolan, Christina and Oscar Castellón, Carlyle and Jennifer Coffin, Rachel and Joseph Furst, Paula Kroll, Dino and Thelma LaCapra, and Diana Wyant. © Clara Varas. Image courtesy Spinello Projects