Twenty Twenty Returns

When you think contemporary art, hardly do you ever think Hialeah. Well all that may change come Saturday with the relocated Twenty Twenty Projects’ first exhibition in its new Hialeah location.

The show is curated by Twenty Twenty mainstay, Jay Hines and includes his work as well as work by a healthy mix of emerging and established artists, such as Bhakti Baxter, John Bucklin, Charles Dubé, Winston McCarthy, Beatriz Monteavaro, Daniel Newman, Martin Oppel, Mike Taylor, Jonathan Thomas, and Addison Walz.

The show’s inspiration is apparently drawn from an anonymous commenter (on an equally anonymous blog) who argued that group exhibitions are more interesting when viewers walk in with no preconceived notions and are forced to deal with the work as is.

Hines has translated this into his own Seindfeld-esque “show about nothing,” and perhaps something of an experiment. If successful, common threads will organically begin to emerge from these works, all of which were created completely independent of one another.

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Whether the show succeeds, fails, or reaches somewhere in-between, it’s doubtless that anyone would have ever expected to see one of Miami’s only legitimate alternative art venues way out in Hialeah. Much more disturbing is the fact that with the multitude of galleries in Wynwood, only a handful would ever dare take a chance on this type of art.

Twenty Twenty Projects: 1388 SE 9th Ct., Hialeah; 786-217-7683; twentytwentyprojects.com