Opening Sunday September 27 4- 6 pm
Closing Sunday November 1st noon - 3 pm
Lance Minto-Strouse (b. 2000) Education, BFA, New World School of the Arts, 2026. A Miami-based interdisciplinary artist. Lance founded the ongoing community artist talks at Bridge Red Studio Complex in North Miami. Exhibitions include, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT, Edge Zones, Barry University, and the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL. Awards include, Norfolk School of Art Fellowship, National Performance Network Artist Engagement Fund, DVCAI Catalyst Award (2025) and DVCAI International Residency in Suriname in 2026.
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Estrella Dominguez. Education, BFA, New World School of the Arts (2024). She is a Miami-based interdisciplinary installation artist working across disciplines. Her process-driven practice investigates relationships between disparate systems. Estrella's concepts are informed by technical drawings, recursive geometry, memory, and Miami's layered landscape. Dominguez develops patterns of transformation that become visible through sustained observation. Exhibitions include Under the Bridge Art Space, Locust Projects, Young Arts Gallery and Bridge Red Studios Complex.
Under the bridge art space presents, ?Que lo que?; Mi deh yah mi star! a two person exhibition introducing artists, Lance Minto-Strouse and Estrella Dominguez, curated by william cordova. This project focuses on each artist’s unique meditation on South Florida’s densely idiosyncratic landscape with its rhythmic architecture and poly-pigmented palettes. The exhibition focuses on the artists’ ability to observe, interpret and encrypt intersecting cultural narratives throughout our disparate communities.
When pioneering Hip Hop rapper, Charlie Chase, of The Cold Crush Brothers, stated, “what is poetry? Poetry is motion!”, he was articulating the fundamentals of geometric shapes, their cultivation in perpetual rhythms, and rhythms contoured in the quotidian of urban spaces. Chase was talking about making the abstract palatable, the poetics of physical improvisation, and implicating arithmetic swagger into the mainstream of society.
Lance Minto-Strouse’s “Untitled (348 drives),” 2026, is a small custom-made wooden box slightly raised off the ground with a green neon light glowing beneath that creates the illusion of levitation. But upon closer observation its contents reveal 348 fastidiously made collaged works on paper. Minto-Strouse made a drawing per day during his daily ritual of South Florida driving. Each work captures the artist’s socially charged contemplations and observations through rhythmic lines and colors often made in quick succession due to them being made while the artist was actively driving. Strouse’s piece brings to mind the artist, Gabriel Orozco’s sculpture “Empty Shoe Box” (1993). Orozco’s piece, made from an empty shoe box, functioned more as an intangible proposal, a platform reflecting fleeting moments the public views more so than the artist’s own ideas. Lance Minto-Strouse is in many ways expanding on Orozco’s conceptual effort. But Lance’s “Untitled (348 drives)” is also recalling the aesthetics and purpose of Miami’s 1980s low-rider car culture. He echoes the majestic feel of Art Deco architecture, the glow of neon light signage, the fantasy of Miami Vice but also the improvisational, resourcefulness and alchemic contributions that black and brown individuals engineered with low-riders in an outlaw culture era that defined itself out of necessity.
Estrella Dominguez’s large scale painting, “Dwellings of Thoughts” (2025) is a burst of short rendered lines, hard shaped pigments, with a tenor of tints and a folly of mathematical equations. Dominguez’s paintings are possessed with the multi-layered velocity of current technology. Her works recall the material index of socially built structures; rebars, cement, quarried spaces and noise pollution. She deposits all that is tangible and intangible. Estrella’s work is also a reflection on artists influenced by geometric trajectories: Renee Cox, Rammellzee, and Nasreen Mohamedi to name a few. Estrella’s work is also trying to incite the essence of the socially built spaces. She is attempting to elevate and preserve their historical substance before their abandon.
Dominguez’s work, like that of the late Purvis Young, is about alchemy, community and redemption.
The exhibition, ?Que lo que?; Mi deh yah mi star! will also include large and small scale photography from both Minto-Strouse and Dominguez. These works originate in the process of documenting site-specific interventions and performances. “Remember the Land” (2026), for example by Minto-Strouse, is a black and white photo diptych, which chronicles the act of pouring a libation as a type of offering commonly practiced in China, Andean, West African and Egyptian cultures. Estrella Dominiguez’s “Remnants” (2026) a photo series is equally focused on honoring specific built spaces utilizing manipulated analogue photography to emphasize the preciousness of the document itself while intimating the labor to produce such structures as the artist’s own hand in making these transformations possible.
Lance Minto-Strouse’s “Untitled (348 drives)
Estrella Dominguez’s “Dwellings of Thoughts”