Dimensions Variable

Dimensions Variable Dimensions Variable (DV) is a project lead by artists committed to the education, presentation, and and James L.
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Dimensions Variable (DV) is an exhibition space committed to the presentation and support of contemporary art. Through a collaborative exchange with artists and institutions, DV develops an exhibition program that engages the community and promotes new and experimental ideas. Dimensions Variable was founded in 2009 by artists Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova who currently serve as dir

ectors. Support for Dimensions Variable is provided by Cannonball through its WaveMaker Grants program, which is part of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting Program. WaveMaker Grants is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, John S. Knight Foundation, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for Dimensions Variable is provided by the donation of its exhibition space by Miami Dade College.

Flag for Demagogues—Alfredo TraviesoOngoing on the building exterior Reception on June 10, 6—9 pmIn this foray into publ...
05/31/2026

Flag for Demagogues—Alfredo Travieso
Ongoing on the building exterior
Reception on June 10, 6—9 pm

In this foray into public sculpture, color and form converge on a shared visual plane. The work belongs to an ongoing series in which Travieso explores the notion of “spatial paintings,” compositions that extend the logic of abstract geometric painting into three-dimensional space. Through the interplay of light, air, and color, these sculptures define presence and absence at once, emphasizing how emptiness can carry as much weight as matter itself.

In Flag for Demagogues, the artist invokes the Venezuelan flag as a fractured emblem, a banner of vanished promises and exhausted ideals. Its warped geometry and cartoonish exaggeration suggest both parody and lament, transforming national symbolism into a poetic device for disillusionment. Travieso twists politics and abstraction into a single contemplative structure, where formal restraint meets emotional gravity, a meditation on failure, longing, and the fragile hope embedded in collective symbols.

Liene Bosquê: What Still Stands at The Wolfsonian–FIU and curated by Luna Goldberg. On view through September 6, 2026.Wh...
05/31/2026

Liene Bosquê: What Still Stands at The Wolfsonian–FIU and curated by Luna Goldberg. On view through September 6, 2026.

What persists after buildings are lost? What Still Stands explores architectural legacy, bringing museum objects into conversation with new work by Miami-based visual artist Liene Bosquê. Having researched the Wolfsonian collection in 2024 as the institution's first Creative Fellow, Bosquê focused on architectural drawings and decorative elements from the Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau styles, including a Hector Guimard cast-iron balustrade the artist exposed to sun to capture haunting afterimages. Presented with several of Bosquê's other architecturally inspired works, these cyanotypes invite questions about permanence and impermanence in built spaces.

The installation is presented in the Bridge Tender House (Josephine Baker Pavilion) outside the museum and on the 2nd floor—where original vault doors, relics of the Wolfsonian building's storage warehouse past, recall our site's earlier use and remind us of architecture's lasting power and many lives.

Liene Bosquê Luna Goldberg The Wolfsonian-FIU

Richard Garet, Claudia Vieira, and Felice Grodin in What's My Line? Drawing as Experience curated by Dimitry Saïd Chamy ...
05/30/2026

Richard Garet, Claudia Vieira, and Felice Grodin in What's My Line? Drawing as Experience curated by Dimitry Saïd Chamy for Edge Zones at the Miami Beach Regional Library on view through July 16, 2026.

Join us for the solo exhibition of DV Co-founding Director Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova on June 10, 2026, 6—9 pm.At the cen...
05/30/2026

Join us for the solo exhibition of DV Co-founding Director Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova on June 10, 2026, 6—9 pm.

At the center of the exhibition is a question about the fine, often invisible line between restraint and protection—between being held in place and holding things together. As Gaston Bachelard argued in The Poetics of Space, inhabited space carries within it the very essence of home. But what happens to that idea when home is not a place of dwelling but a place of departure and transition? When do the objects of everyday life become the things you bundle up and carry toward an uncertain horizon? Rodríguez-Casanova’s practice has long explored these questions through the material logic of everyday objects—what Arjun Appadurai identified as the “social life of things,” the capacity of objects to accumulate meaning as they move across different contexts, economies, and hands. Here, those same objects are pressed into new urgency as the material vocabulary of migration and escape.

This exhibition is made possible in part by a 2026 Creator Award, from The Ellies, Oolite Arts Awards.

Leyden Rodriguez Oolite Arts

Congratulations to DV Co-founding Director Frances Trombly on opening her solo show today at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in L...
05/30/2026

Congratulations to DV Co-founding Director Frances Trombly on opening her solo show today at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in L.A.

Opens today May 30, 2026 from 4—6 pm. On view through July 18.



05/28/2026

Join us and so many amazing arts and culture organizations for the next LHLR Art Days. It’s a fact, we’re stronger together. Come out, say hi, see art!


Visit lhlrartdays.com to learn more and view the map!

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05/27/2026

What an inspiring and intimate afternoon getting to know Amy Galpin, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College.

Amy Galpin is respected as a curator who makes time to learn about this place and all the dedicated and talented artist who work here. We know because so many artists have told us. Research is at the core of curatorial practice, we appreciate the work the she does and look forward to more thoughtful projects. Thank you Amy for spending an afternoon with us.

Our members get to meet, share, and learn from some of the most influential leaders in contemporary art. This intimate setting allows for natural connection and exchange as it can be difficult in bigger settings.

Join us in the next one—become a member.



05/27/2026

Bringing students to artist studios. Collaborating with schools and universities. Students from visit our gallery and studios
to DV to learn about the work we do.

Special thanks to for coordinating this amazing inquisitive group

A Distant Blue by Marisabela Tellería, curated by Sophie Bonet at Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry Miami. The exhibition unfo...
05/21/2026

A Distant Blue by Marisabela Tellería, curated by Sophie Bonet at Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry Miami.

The exhibition unfolds through questions of distance, memory, and what it means to remain connected to a place that cannot be easily returned to. In this exhibition, Marisa Tellería moves across sky, map, and material, tracing how identity is shaped not only by geography, but by what is carried—through memory, through the body, and over time.

Marisabela Tellería (b. Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan- born multidisciplinary artist based in Miami whose practice spans sculpture, painting, and installation. Through a minimalist and contemplative approach, her work explores perception, memory, displacement, and belonging. Tellería has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and Pérez Art Museum Miami, and her work is held in major public collections such as PAMM and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Tellería is a resident at Dimensions Variable.

Sophie Bonet (b. 1986) is a South Florida-based curator whose practice is informed by social and cultural anthropology. She currently serves as Chief Curator of The Frank C. Ortis Gallery and has organized exhibitions at institutions including CAMH, MACBA, and MOCA North Miami.

Frances Trombly: What HoldsOpens May 30, 2026Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los AngelesShoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to pre...
05/18/2026

Frances Trombly: What Holds

Opens May 30, 2026
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present What Holds, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Frances Trombly. Marking Trombly’s return to the gallery following her 2016 solo exhibition, this body of work continues her investigation into weaving, labor, and the structures that make visibility possible.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Leah Ollman described Trombly’s sculptures, weavings, and installations as “confident trespassers,” works that “meander into all sorts of territory, straddling genre lines and tunneling through hierarchical divides.” Nearly a decade later, that trespass has become more deliberate. In What Holds, the works resist a fixed category. They move across painting and sculpture, appearing as supports, tools, remnants, and propositions. The works seem to have arrived from the studio still carrying the pressure of their own making. At the center of the exhibition is the warp, the longitudinal threads that carry tension and give structure to woven cloth. Trombly brings this underlying system forward, where it operates as both subject and support. Warps hang exposed. Textiles slip from wooden frames. Handwoven surfaces are suspended, layered, or left partially formed. The conditions of making are not concealed or smoothed over. They remain. Process is not a step toward something else. It is the work.

Her structures recall looms, stretcher bars, warping boards, and scaffolds. They hold and distribute tension. They point toward painting while refusing the stability of the canvas. They remain tied to the logic of cloth even as they occupy space. In What Holds, Trombly returns painting to its material condition: a woven support shaped by tension, labor, and time.

Frances Trombly Shoshana Wayne Leah Ollman Los Angeles Times

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