“After Bierstad — The Landing of Columbus.”

The window at the back of this one gallery in the new Perez Art Museum Miami serves as a portal to the best of the city. From this perch you can see Biscayne Bay, all the boats and ships that have brought people and goods to this tip of the peninsula for ages, the causeway that leads across the glistening bay to Miami Beach.

It is not unlike the other portals in this room, which are a mixture of landscape-painting and tapestry-like new works from one of Miami’s best known artists, Eduoard Duval-Carrié. These allow us into a dreamy but troubling world of the Caribbean, past and present. They are stunning.

Although there are tell-tale signs in the pieces that most will recognize as coming from the hands of Duval- Carrié, they are also a departure. While most shine and glint from the use of silver glitter, the other colors are darker; black, muted blue, gray. They are images of a swampy, tropical land at twilight, after the rain. They are also all based on 19th-century European landscape-painting, when painter-adventurers were bringing to the Old World their version of the New — but usually without any of those lush land’s actual people. Duval-Carrié has re-inserted some of them into his 21st century interpretation, but as almost ghostlike creatures, or mythological figures. Not unlike two centuries ago, he seems to suggest, these inhabitants are still barely seen, ignored and invisible to the foreign eye except as myth.

Hanging in the middle of the room are two chandeliers, again referencing an Empire French salon, but these are infused with a purple light, and festooned with violet-colored resin figures that are, in fact, tiny sculptures of Florida Indians.

Make sure to walk around the room and look at the large paintings and lighting from all angles, including from the perspective of the window. “Imagined Landscapes” is a perfect fit for Miami.

“Imagined Landscapes” from Eduoard Duval-Carrié runs through August at PAMM, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; www.pamm.org.