MIAMI-DADE
PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Florida Arcane
from The Society for the Preservation
of Lost Things and Missing Time
June
24 – September 19, 2010
Main
Library, 2nd floor exhibition space
101
W. Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665
[log in to unmask] / 305-375-5048 / www.mdpls.org
Reception: Thursday, June 24, 6:30-8:30pm
The Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and
Missing Time presents objects overlooked in history's master narrative. This
special installation of photographs, archival materials, and objects
documenting the odd, arcane and archaic in the State of Florida is curated by
TSPLTMT’s Executive Director, Solomon Graves. The exhibition includes displays
on Jacqueline Cochran, the Space Coast Polymath; the Archives of Dr. Eugene
Birchwood, documenting his involvement with the Godsped Airstream Community;
and brand new images of a failed city in the Okefenokee Swamp!
About The
Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time:
Our Mission is to Prevent the Loss of Fringe
Thought, to keep lit the Fire of Impossibility,
to find
that which lay Undiscovered beneath Dust and Sediment,/ out of Sight and
Forgotten./
Missing
time was recorded and we are witness after the fact./ Its
Products Whisper to Us across Timespace./It is our Mission to Thwart the all
too common Demise of Things,/ Stories, Ideas, which may not fit History's
Master Narrative./ We crave the Archaic and Arcane, the Strange, the
Paranormal,/ the Outer Edge, the Little Known , those Things imbued / with
Magical Properties, the Folkloric, the Homemade, the Story-told, /the Other
World-ly./Left-Field.
Paredolia
Derek Buckner
June
24 – September 26, 2010
Main
Library, 1st floor exhibition space
New York artist Derek Buckner
works obsessively on series of paintings in which he takes on a specific
subject (highway, truck, landscape), shown from a birds’ eye perspective, and
explores its variation on a theme. This exhibition features one of Buckner’s
latest series of oil paintings portraying images of UFOs as the dominant
feature; depictions of the cityscape, buildings, and the earth are implied
rather than a central figure. The dreamy yet haunting works explore the poetics
of the unfamiliar and accentuate the ambiguity and psychological impact of the
unknown.
About the artist:
Derek Buckner grew up in Brooklyn,
New York. He went on to study at Vassar College and received his B.F.A. from
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in New York, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Italy, Mexico, East Hampton, and Sante Fe. His work is in
numerous private and corporate collections in this country and abroad. This is
his first solo exhibition in Miami, Fl.