Don’t Forget To Hydrate
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present a sizzling hot summer show featuring the works of Basil Kincaid, Terri Friedman, and Adam Miller. Full of color and energy, each artist brings their own unique approach to material and content.
Basil Kincaid brings a sense of spirituality and optimism in his work through deep self-exploration. “I am a Vessel, a Vivid Dreamer, and a World Builder. My work is guided by my connection to ancestral courage and related insights, filtered through observation and expanded by imagination. My quest is to understand the tapestry of my own personal and cultural identity within the African Diaspora, contextualized by the scaffolding of my American experience. I practice self-exploration, historical investigation, and critical social questioning to cultivate healing towards a remedy for Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. My goal is to co-create sites that stimulate the ancestral memory of love as freedom within us, activating space to participate in shared liberation on local and global scales. “. Bringing the viewer into the inner workings of his process allows for a sense of connectedness, as well as education and empathy. Terri Friedman also draws from life experience to fabricate her vivid tapestries.
Friedman’s most recent work explores the relationship between mind and body, considering the effects brain chemistry has on creating elevated emotional states and utilizing color, fiber, language, and abstract gestures to activate chemicals like Serotonin, Endorphins, Dopamine, and Oxytocin. Cultivating these elevated states and happy hormones is a political and personal weapon for Friedman that serves as barrier against despair. Though Friedman’s weavings feel spontaneous, they are meticulously planned from the composition to the fiber choices. She draws the work on an iPad, selecting fibers at the same time, then grids out the drawings and begins weaving. She explores in her woven portraits a range of elevated emotions. Though not representational or figurative, her larger abstract work is also imbued with a body like quality: orifices, uvulas, eyes, cords appearing intestinal, veiny, and hairy are primary in the work. Gaping holes and cracks allow light to penetrate the piece. There is a sunniness to the works that belies the seriousness of the subject matter- a form of art therapy that inspires joy.
Adam Miller’s work is all about abundance. Vibrant, curvaceous and welcoming, each jar is a celebration. From the humorous use of the multi-faceted mushroom to his own interpretation of the “Moon Jar”, each piece brings a painterly sensibility to the ubiquitous vessel form. Creating work from the position of an art gallerist gives Miller a particular appreciation for the value of the creative process and how much of our work is a reflection of our personal narrative. Pushing and pulling clay, experimenting with firing temperatures and glazes is both a cathartic and challenging act. With all the energy and time management required to make space for making, Miller exemplifies the notion of Don’t Forget to Hydrate. We are excited to bring these three dynamic artists together for the first time in Miami.
About the Artists
Adam D. Miller was born in Bellevue, WA (1982) and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Design in 2008 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Sacramento in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include The Future Perfect NYC, Gattopardo Los Angeles, Lefebvre & Fils Paris, and a 2 person exhibition at the Newsstand Project Los Angeles with Ryan Schneider, among various other exhibitions. In 2012 he was selected as one of Art Review’s “future greats”. Miller is also the co- founder of the artist-run gallery The Pit in Los Angeles, as well as the lead designer and owner of Reaperware, a functional ceramics line launching in 2023. He has curated dozens of exhibitions in California and New York including at The Torrance Art Museum, Verge Center of the Arts in Sacramento CA, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles among others. He has also designed, edited, and published dozens of artist publications through The Pit’s former Risograph imprint. He is represented by The Future Perfect (LA, NYC, SF), Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami), and Le Febvre & Fils (Paris).
Terri Friedman received her BA with Honors from Brown University and her MFA from the Claremont Graduate School. After graduate school, she moved to Los Angeles where she began exhibiting her multi-media works both nationally and internationally. She made a mid-career transition from a sculpture and painting practice to weaving on a floor loom in 2014. Having received critical reviews in Artforum, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and more, in 2019 she was included in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press. She has exhibited at such venues as the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, SF Contemporary Jewish Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, CODA Museum Netherlands, CUE Art Foundation NYC, Berkeley Art Museum (Art Wall), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, James Cohan Gallery, P.P.O.W. and more. Most recently she had a solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, 2023. She received a San Francisco Artadia Award in 2021. Included in many private and public collections, recent acquisitions include the De Young Museum San Francisco, 2022, and the Denver Art Museum, 2024. She resides in El Cerrito, California with her family and is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts.
Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) is a post-disciplinary artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. With found, salvaged and donated materials, Kincaid employs resourcefulness and freedom of imagination as critical components in the liberation of spirit.
Kincaid studied drawing and painting at Colorado College, graduating in 2010. Kincaid has exhibited works with Hauser & Wirth, Mindy Solomon, Kravets Wehby, Kavi Gupta, Carl Kostyal and others. In 2019, Kincaid debuted a first museum performance, “The Release,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis MO.
In 2020 Kincaid received the Regional Arts Commission Fellowship. In 2021, Kincaid became a United States Artist Fellow and joined the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2022, Kincaid debuted new quilt works in both the Legacy Russell-curated show, “The New Bend” at Hauser & Wirth’s New York and Los Angeles locations, and the Ekow Eshun-curated exhibition, “New African Portraiture” at the Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. Kincaid also produced a ceremonial installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, wrapping a Manuel Neri figure in a quilt entitled “Take Me Home” just days after Neri’s passing. Thus far in 2023, Kincaid has exhibited “Dancing the Wind Walk”, a semi-permanent fabric monument during Frieze LA, with support from the Art Production Fund.
