Dot Fiftyone presents Amanda Valdez

Thursday, January 26th from 7-10pm Dot Fiftyone Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition with Amanda Valdez – ‘Hot Bed’, the artists premier solo show in Miami. The exhibition will include new paintings made of fabric, paint and embroidery and works on paper. On view from January 26 through March 11, 2017 in Dot Fiftyone’s Gallery #2.

Amanda Valdez uses fabric, embroidery, paint, and a sewing machine to make her paintings. Oscillating between abstraction and representation her shapes poke at everything human. She examines how painting and sculpture can represent the physical experiences and stories of the body, using different modes of making to give a larger sense of time on a historic scale. Her works are a matrix of gestures, styles, and materials referring to visual cultures that are both western and non-western, creating a variety of historical references, from quilting and sewing, to tiling and bricklaying, to virtuoso gestural painting.