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.

We've been thinking about who gets to shape what museums hold—and why an artist giving their own work is still treated s...
09/01/2026

We've been thinking about who gets to shape what museums hold—and why an artist giving their own work is still treated so differently from a collector doing the same. The asymmetry runs deeper than tax law, though tax law makes it visible.

Artists have always had the power to rethink the structures we move through—Michelle Grabner is the evidence.

Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova,Gate Composition (Insulated), 2026,Found photos, aluminum gate, wood, MDF, glass, paper, found...
09/01/2026

Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova,
Gate Composition (Insulated), 2026,
Found photos, aluminum gate, wood, MDF, glass, paper, found fabric, sponges, straps, styrofoam
Dimensions variable, Installation view at Dimensions Variable, Photos by Francesco Casale

Leyden Rodriguez

Thank you all for joining us at Hotel Croydon for Verdure including the work of Nicole Burko Moira Holohan Karen Staros...
08/31/2026

Thank you all for joining us at Hotel Croydon for Verdure including the work of Nicole Burko Moira Holohan Karen Starosta. What a lovely evening of food, drinks, and gathering. Stay tuned for more off-site projects coming soon.

Join us Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 7 pm, off-site at Soho Beach House for this conversation. Make sure to RSVP on ...
08/31/2026

Join us Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 7 pm, off-site at Soho Beach House for this conversation. Make sure to RSVP on the website to get in.

For this discussion, Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova is joined by Gean Moreno to consider State of Transition, Rodríguez-Casanova’s recent solo project at Dimensions Variable, which draws on the material systems of migration and displacement—the gates, hardware, and mass-produced domestic objects that trace the threshold between restraint and protection. Their conversation moves from the work itself to the conditions that make such work possible, situating the exhibition within Rodríguez-Casanova’s role as co-founder of DV and the artist-run model he has built alongside Frances Trombly.

The exchange is grounded in a shared history. For over two decades, both Rodríguez-Casanova and Moreno have helped shape Miami’s art ecosystem from within its artist-run and nonprofit spaces—as makers, organizers, and advocates for a culture that supports experimental practice outside the logic of the market. Their conversation reflects that long vantage, turning a solo exhibition into an occasion to think about how artists build and sustain the infrastructure their work depends on.

Leyden Rodriguez Soho House & Co Soho Beach House

Carrie Sieh, The Hollies - The Air That I BreatheGraphite, acrylic, and cyanotype on panel36”x36”2026Carrie Sieh: Limbic...
08/28/2026

Carrie Sieh, The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
Graphite, acrylic, and cyanotype on panel
36”x36”
2026

Carrie Sieh: Limbic Geometries opening this Saturday, 3-6pm at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Carrie Sieh

Donna Ruff, 4.22.22, De-acidified hand-cut newspaper, gold leaf on Mylar, 2022-26, 15.5 x 11.5 in.Donna Ruff
08/26/2026

Donna Ruff, 4.22.22, De-acidified hand-cut newspaper, gold leaf on Mylar, 2022-26, 15.5 x 11.5 in.

Donna Ruff

We're launching the Artist Member Microgrant—direct financial support for our artist community, offered to eligible Arti...
08/21/2026

We're launching the Artist Member Microgrant—direct financial support for our artist community, offered to eligible Artist Members across the country. The program is backed by a Los Angeles-based private foundation.

We trust artists to know what their practice needs. Materials, documentation, travel, caregiving that clears time to work, the overhead that keeps a studio running—the Microgrant supports the real, everyday costs that rarely fit conventional funding, yet often decide whether the work continues.

Applications open this fall. Membership makes you eligible—and makes the whole community stronger. By artists, for artists.

Link in bio to become a member.

Dimensions Variable presents Verdure at Hotel Croydon, featuring works by Karen Starosta-Gilinski, Nicole Burko, and Moi...
08/19/2026

Dimensions Variable presents Verdure at Hotel Croydon, featuring works by Karen Starosta-Gilinski, Nicole Burko, and Moira Holohan. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, August 28, with a Members reception at 6 pm followed by the public opening from 7–9 pm. Hors d’oeuvres and Prosecco will be served. Hotel Croydon is located at 3720 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.

Taking its name from the medieval tapestry tradition of lush, foliage-filled weavings, Verdure brings together three artists whose works explore green through shifting relationships to landscape, surface, material, and image. Moving between underwater perception, chroma green, and the tactile memory of the natural world, the exhibition considers green not simply as a color, but as a condition.

Karen Starosta-Gilinski Moira Holohan Nicole Burko Hotel Croydon

08/18/2026

We continue to be invited into these conversations because the field is asking these questions now more than ever. What it needs are more inventive ways of supporting one another—structures artists build together—inside an ecosystem that grows more exclusive and scarcity-driven the harder it works to preserve the status quo.

Dimensions Variable was built on exactly this premise. Since our founding in 2009, we’ve run an artist-led ecosystem in which artists are co-builders rather than recipients—the people who make and sustain the structure itself through stable studios, membership, exhibitions, conversations, and a journal that holds the work in critical dialogue. “Artists supporting artists” isn’t a tagline here; it’s the advocacy we’ve practiced from the start, an example of how to self-organize instead of waiting for the market to make room.

This conversation—“Tomorrow’s Nomadic, Collaborative, and Experimental Gallery Model”—was part of Future Talks by Artlogic (), recorded at Future Fair () in New York this past May. Thanks to moderator Elise Carrollo () and to fellow panelists Seoyoung Kim (), Brett Lee () for a generative exchange on where the gallery model goes from here.

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