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An Art Event Curated by Florida Mining

Presented at Gallery 180 inside Stanley Beaman & Sears

3 Wishes is the story of three artists from different worlds that are revising the way the world views the south.

I. Hiromi Moneyhun, Jacksonville Beach, FL

From Kyoto, Japan to Florida, Hiromi’s three dimensional paper-cuts combine ancient traditions with contemporary narratives presented in almost anamorphic sculpture.

Hiromi Mizugai moved to Jacksonville Beach, Florida, in 2004. Her work combines traditional Japanese visual art forms, such as Edo Period Japanese woodblock prints (moku hanga), with the super-modernity of contemporary urban Japanese and American cultures.

Huffington Post wrote: “Her enormous works do not sacrifice detail for size. She cuts the mythical-looking creatures and oversized faces with an X-Acto knife, in her living room. Seen in person, the shadows are as mesmerizing as the pieces themselves, playing on the gallery wall like a scene from a Balinese puppet show.”

Hiromi’s work has been featured in solo and group shows including the current State of the Art exhibition of America’s top 100 undiscovered artists at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas and in Delray Beach’s Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens.

II. Kedgar Volta, Jacksonville, FL

Kedgar’s next-level multimedia photographic work ranges from raw candid black and white photography to enormous portrait mosaics to projection mapping onto photographic prints.

Born and raised in Cuba, Kedgar graduated from the Design Institute of Havana in 2007 and emigrated to Jacksonville, Florida, in 2008. Since then, he has been able to draw from a dual cultural perspective. He creates multimedia photographic works that represent disparate lives and environments, but also serve as narratives that remind us of our common humanity.

His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Florida and he was one of the top 100 undiscovered artists featured in the State of the Art exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas.

III. Marcus Kenney, Savannah, GA

Marcus is a true southerner. Born in Louisiana, his pieces are engaging, fun and sardonic mixed-media sculptures, often crafted from found objects.

He earned his MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and currently works in collage, sculpture, paint, photography and installation.

Art in America wrote: “Kenney is a voracious consumer of materials and styles. Skulls are covered with sequins or bling. Tatty vintage taxi­dermy specimens are recycled into majestic otherworldly creatures. Ordinary items receive extraordinary adornments. Blithe dualism is the method of his alchemy.”

His work has exhibited all over the world, from New York to Hong Kong and has been included in group shows, international art fairs, private and public collections, and solo exhibitions, including a major ten year survey featuring nearly 50 works. A collection of his work was published by SCAD and he has been featured in numerous publications ranging from NY Times and Oxford American to New American Painter and New York Arts Magazine. Marcus is represented in Atlanta by the Marcia Wood Gallery.