EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS / COMMISSIONS
Murmuration
The City of Miami Beach Temporary Public Commissions, No Vacancy Project
Murmuration - created for “No Vacancy” Temporary Public Art Installations Commissioned byThe City of Miami Beach. Multiple media at the International Inn on the Bay. Upper mezzanine level: immersive site-adaptive works: suspended LED sculptural forms, assemblages, paintings and floor projected video (Dec.2023)
A Crack in the Moon
The Brown (Museum of Arts & Sciences), Solo-Exhibit, Daytona Beach, FL.
Karshan Center @ The Museum of Arts & Sciences (The Brown Museum) - curator: Ruth Grim, based on local indigenous history. Catalogue w/essay, excerpt from "Rebellion" by artist/writer Anja Marais. Multiple media: suspended objects, photo-murals, video projection, and performance. 14ft x 45ft x 50ft (2022)
Mono No Aware
Solo Exhibition, Space | 223, Miami Design Districtns, Miami Florida
MONO NO AWARE - Solo Exhibition, Curator: Tiffany Chestler (Dacra) culpture, video, paintings and wall drawings, January - March (2020)
Walk-In #6 - A Couple of Days in the Life of Julie Ozama
Bienal de Artes Visuales / Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1st Place Video Award
Simmons-Jiménez won, in 1992, won one of the prizes of the XVIII Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales with the first video-art installation ever realized in the Dominican Republic, "A couple of days in the life of Julie Ozama" (1992). . . plays with her doubled alterity … and codifies a new vision of Nature’s performistic talents. - Dr. Alanna Lockward “Towards a Utopian Archeology”
Walk-In #6, Julie Ozama, Museo de Arte Moderno, Multimedia installation, immersive, kinetic, wood construction, video, motorized components, acrylic, cardboard, electric light components, bath fixtures, furniture, door, 120” x 120” x 144” - Video: A Couple of Days in the Life of Julie Ozama - 1st Place Video. (1992)
A Stick A Stone A Tree
Oolite Arts / Walgreens Window Project / Miami Beach
And the riverbank talks of the waters of March. It's the promise of life, it's the joy in your heart. A stick. a stone, it’s the end the road… - lyrics: Antonio Carlos Jobim
A STICK A STONE A TREE- site view: Collins Ave - commissioned by Oolite Arts for Walgreens Windows Project March - July, 2024 . Presenting works inspired by Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “The Waters of March” musical com position. Occupying 60ft along Collins Ave, and 60ft along 74th Street, Miami Beach, Florida. Public speaker events invited visitors behind the glass walls (Gendry Sherer and Meagan Kent). Each vitrine 9ft x 60 ft x 4ft. North Facing window occupied the singular 40ft work on suspended silk panel “Swimming in the Currents of Truth & Fairy Tales” (2024)
Walk-In #5, Sound Garden
Aesthetics & Values / Green Library, FIU
created with a bit of whimsy, the work addresses humanity’s need fr freedom and the irony of our fabrications of containment - ASJ
WALK-IN #5, SOUND GARDEN - The Green Library Gallery, Aesthetics & Values FIU, Miami, site-adaptive, immersive installation, painted silk scrims, audio, garden chairs, headphones, objects - 120' x 120" x 120" (2008) & WALK-IN #88, FIDDLE DEEDEE -Frances Wolfson Gallery M-D Collage, site-specific, immersive installation, assembled objects, 46 suspended hand-painted 9’ x 5’ silk panels installed as a labyrinth, audio speakers, live mouse, wooden mouse-maze, 2 connecting spaces @ 12’ x 16’ x 9’ each. (2001)
The Rain Room
The Florida Biennial / Hollywood Arts & Cultural Center /Hollywood, Florida
The Rain Room - site views: 2022 Florida Biennial Exhibition: Hollywood Art & Cultural Center. The multi-media experience includes 3 LED illuminated hanging fiber works (Puff Clouds), video/poem projection "The Rains That Fall" suspended "Rain Chains" and floor attached mirrored Plexi "raindrops". Included: video site tour.
Somewhere A Place
Showfields / Inaugural Art Commissions / Miami Beach
somewhere . . . their’s a place - that I dreamt of - where all people are free - AS-J
SOMEWHERE A PLACE - at Showfields: Inaugural Installations. Suspended and floor sitting fiber sculptures w/color-changing LED bulbs, polypropylene fiber, crystal beads, metal chain: "Puff Clouds", "Moonlight Pool", "Bubble &; Spirals" and "The Cloudfield" a free-hand wall drawing - created for Showfields, Miami Beach(2020-2021)
Yellow Sky / Black Water
Edge Zones Contemporary Art /Far Away Yet So Close / Allapattah, Miami, FL
Far Away Yet So Close (Muy Lejos Pero Tan Cerca) celebrates the prowess of contemporary Dominican art. - Maria Elena Ortiz
YELLOW SKY / BLACK WATER - site-specific video/object assemblage, polystyrene fibers, metal chains, lighting, recycled plastics and fabrics, wall-hung tapestry, iPad video/audio display screening “Acid Cloud Surfing” - Edge Zones Contemporary Art’s exhibition of Dominican Art now, an ever-changing socio-political, socio-cultural, and philosophical discourse. (2023)
Walk-In #88, Suspended Spiral
Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach / Frost Museum at FIU / Artformz Project Room
Enter the spiral and experience a magical sensation of floating with your feet on the ground - AS-J
WALK-IN #88, SUSPENDED SPIRAL - immersive installation: visitors enter and experience a magical sensation of floating with your feet on the ground. The spiral’s parallel, upward-soaring, suspension ropes have a mysterious way of erasing corners and creating a space without edges or time. Hand-polished, turned aluminum tube, aluminum suspension frame, polypropylene cordage, LED color flood light. 144" x 120" x 84". 3 site-specific installs in chronological order: The Arts Warehouse, at Delray Beach, FL (2020); for Aesthetics & Values, at the Frost Art Museum, Miami (2015); and at Artformz Alternative’s Project Room, Wynwood (2009).
Hometown Sentinels
400 South Point Art Project /Miami Beach
Thirteen artists sharing global perspectives in their interdisciplinary practices - DVCAI
HOMETOWN SENTINELS - site-adapted installation with 5 works in a group: TOWER, TOWER TWO, TIED TOWER, CIELITO LINDO. Mixed media constructions, wood, found objects, stained glass illumination, and gold enamel, rubber, wire, on variable wood plinths. Dimensions variable, this arrangement: 72” x 48” x 36”. 400 South Point Art Project curated by Rosie Gordon Wallace, DVCAI. (2017)
The Fades
Oolite Arts / Walgreens Windows Project /Miami Beach
The electric violet tickles at my ankles. Feels like silk and smells like danger - AS-J
THE FADES - the dynamic relationships between shapes, form, and color resulting from a spontaneous integration of the known and the unknown. installations on 67th Street and Collins Ave., Oolite Arts for Walgreens Windows Project, March - May, 2018. Site-specific installations, multiple media, wall drawing and verse, suspended kinetic and illuminated objects, m/m paintings, poetry. 2 store front spaces: 12'x 50' x 4' and 12' x 100' x 4.5'. Poem: Blue Fades to Brown Fades to Violet. AS-J