Bhakti Baxter: ROMPELOTAS at Gallery Diet, Opening Reception, Oct 7, 2011, 7-9PM
ROMPELOTAS is the first Miami solo exhibition in four years for locally based artist Bhakti
Baxter. The exhibition will include sculpture, painting, collage, and installation based work.
ROMPELOTAS is a collection of work assembled through a careful balance between play and
placement. Found objects such as soccer balls and office desk drawers collide with concrete and
enamel to behave like irrational models of natural phenomena. Though various layers of media
stack up against each other unsettlingly throughout the gallery, the work consists of very basic
organic and geometric patterns such as branching, spherical implosion, vertical and panoramic
support structures, both rendered and actual. Viewed as a whole, the parts function as
components of an expanded portrait, with sculptures and drawings embracing the micro and
macro at every junction. Working closely with the laws of gravity, density, and the malleability of
mass, Baxter transforms quotidian objects into forms imbued with metaphysical propositions,
further defined by the self-made aesthetic of these forces.
The word ROMPELOTAS is a play on the term rompe pelotas, which means ball breaker in Spanish.
Bhakti Baxter has exhibited at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in
Paris, Bravin Lee Programs, and Guild and Greyskhul in New York. He has also exhibited at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, where he is in the permanent collection, The Bass
Museum of Art Miami Beach, The Museum of Contemporary Art Washington DC, and The Ft.
Lauderdale Museum of Art. His work is also included in the permanent collection of the NOMAS
Foundation in Rome. This will be Baxter's first solo exhibition at Gallery Diet.
The exhibition is being accompanied by a 120-page hard cover retrospective publication including
texts by Geir Haraldseth, Gean Moreno, and Hugh Stockton.
October 7th – November 12th, 2011
Opening Reception: October 7th, 7-9pm
Gallery Diet
174 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
www.gallerydiet.com
305 571 2288
For additional information, interviews or images please contact Jon Handel at
jon@sparkplug-pr.com or 347-742-4380.
Special thanks to Palm Breweries.
Former Adjunct Professor at Miami Dade College, Arts & Philosophy Department since August of 2006, Portrait Painter, Professional Artist for the past 15 years. I specialize in Realism whether painterly (loose brushstrokes) or tight (highly rendered) Portraiture and depiction of the Human Figure.
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