Design Miami: December 2-7
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DESIGN MIAMI: BOOTH C19
Friends Artspace is delighted to exhibit at Design Miami on its milestone 20th year. The gallery is presenting artists Aspen Golann, Joanna Bloom, Kawabi, Meg Callahan, Nour Hage, Theju Nimmagadda, and Trey Jones.
The works in this collection transform tradition, reclaiming inherited forms and techniques while reimagining their meaning. Aspen Golann reinterprets 18th and 19th century broom-making, turning domestic tools into sculptural tributes to collective labor. Kawabi’s wood and paper lighting draws on Japanese joinery to create sacred objects for an imagined ancestral home. Artists create contemporary heirlooms that slip outside of time, challenging the boundaries between past and future, such as Trey Jones’ futuristic Nerikomi-patterned woodworks, which could as easily belong to a centuries-old cabinet of curiosities as on a starship.
Material is treated as memory, carrying stories, lineages, and the labor of those who came before. Nour Hage weaves hand-dyed cloth as acts of remembrance and resistance, reconnecting to matrilineal histories. Meg Callahan quilts from scraps of bedsheets and deadstock fabrics, while Theju Nimmagadda mosaics mass-produced cedar into intricate, precious forms. Joanna Bloom's ceramics are a mystical rumination on her connection to the Pacific Northwest landscapes. Each piece is made with deliberate, care-filled processes that imbue the work with a quiet power and an enduring presence.
By elevating the accessible, the imperfect, and the overlooked, these artists remove their materials from the industrial stratum and transform them into objects of lasting presence—works that hold both the intimacy of craft and the power of reimagined tradition.