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Artist News: May 2022

Bakehouse artist Luján Candria at La Providencia Art Residence. Photo by Brooke Davanzo.


Bakehouse artists Jenna Efrein and Christina Pettersson are currently presenting work in Pa-Hay-Okeethe land of ‘grassy water’, a group exhibition currently on view at ArtServe in Ft. Lauderdale. The show highlights ten artists that captures in unique and profound ways the beauty, fragility, and diversity of the Florida Wetlands and the flora and fauna that inhabits them.

Bakehouse artist Morel Doucet is presenting work in The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined, a group exhibition curated by Galerie Myrtis presented at the Palazzo Bembo in Venice. The show features artists that assert agency over narratives of Black life, offer discourse into the socio-political concerns of African Americans, and pay tribute to the resiliency, creativity, and spirituality that have historically sustained Black people.

Bakehouse artist Luján Candria was recently invited to the La Providencia Art Residence located in Edmundo B. Perkins, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of a group of interdisciplinary international artists who met in a collaborative experience to jointly reflect on the environmental destruction caused by the monoculture of soy. Through the lens of art and with the spirit of healing, they created works and produced documentation, actions, and interviews during their research.

Bakehouse artist Maritza Caneca recently debuted Garden Mirror, a site-specific installation made for the Instituto Brando Barbosa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The work is presented as part of CASACOR Rio de Janeiro and will be on view through June 26.

Bakehouse Jenna Efrein is currently presenting work in FLORIDA: In Transformation, a group exhibition at the Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibition features 37 of the best artists working in glass in the state of Florida.