Alissa Alfonso’s solo exhibition “Weathering” brought art, joy, and biocentrism to the Miami Beach Botanical Garden this Fall. By making local plants and the South Florida landscape the subject, Alfonso’s artwork de centers humans, the unequivocal focus of Western art and culture since the Renaissance. Her work exemplifies biocentrism, an ethical framework that assigns equal moral consideration and intrinsic value to all life forms. Alfonso raises awareness about the climate

Justyna Kisielewicz confronts the legacies of colonialism and our shared pursuit of freedom in Living Space, her most ambitious exhibition to date. According to the artist, the work “explores Polish history within the context of multiple sites of global oppression, including the colonial project in the Americas and our current climate crisis.” Her kaleidoscopic, atemporal oil paintings weave together disparate historical periods, lush Florida vegetation, a pantheon of symboli