view the exhibition video at:
SEE the exhibition: by Roxana Barba at
under the bridge art space (lower floor #4)
12425 NE 13th Avenue . North Miami, FL
reserve a seat for the conversation, go to : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversation-tickets-1983169613700?aff=oddtdtcreator
proceed upstairs to Bridge Red for the
CONVERSATION on visual arts and dance
Join us for a conversation with artist Roxana Barba, art writer, curator and professor Marivi Velez, and artist and curator Melissa Wallen.
Framed by her solo exhibition Loop to Zero at Under the Bridge Art Space, artist and choreographer Roxana Barba will be in conversation with Marivi Veliz, witer, curator and professor and Melissa Wallen, artist, curator and arts administrator. This conversation will delve into the Barba's solo exhibition Loop to Zero, exploring its significance within her broader interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of dance and visual art.
Roxana Barba (b. 1976, Lima, Peru) is a Miami-based artist and choreographer whose conceptual, interdisciplinary practice spans performance, video, sculpture, and installation to explore hybridity, transformation, and the body as a site of cultural and material inquiry, with presentations at the Latinx Project at NYU, Culture Hub|La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, Miami Light Project, and Alianza Cultural Frances de Miraflores (Lima, Peru) and recognition through awards including the 2025 WaveMaker Grant at Locust Projects, 2022 Knight New Work and the 2024 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Fund for the Arts.
Melissa Wallen (b. 1987, Voorhees, NJ) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts leader whose practice spans painting, collage, video, and curatorial projects that explore thresholds between the material and immaterial, analog and digital, and public and personal, creating spaces where experimentation, embodiment, and community converge; she was named a Knight Arts Champion by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2022 and currently serves as Director of Exhibitions and Community Engagement at Oolite Arts.
Marivi Véliz (b. 1975, Cuba) is a scholar, curator, and professor of Spanish and Latinx/Latin American art with a PhD from the University of Miamiwhose interdisciplinary research examines silence as a form of sensorial cognition in Latin American and Latinx performance art, situating embodied experience, language, and cultural memory at the center of contemporary artistic practice; she extends this critical inquiry through her university teaching, independent curatorial work, and published criticism as a contributing writer for Artburst Miami.
Special thanks to Lou Anne Colodny and William Cordova, Under the Bridge Art Space for their invitation and support; and Kristen Thiele and Robert Thiele, Bridge Red Studios for hosting the conversation.
