The Divine Matter of All Things

Alex Trimino is a Colombian-born visual artist who lives and works in Miami, where she creates illuminated fiber-based sculptures and installations. Her work recontextualizes colloquial, low-tech crafts such as crochet, knitting and weaving to explore social views on civilization, technology and gender. Initially disinclined to knit, crochet and weave, which she associated with domestic labor in her native Colombia, she returned to these processes with a geometric interest, combining yarn and fiber with high-tech materials like micro-controlled neon so that old ways and new technologies commingle. She earned an MFA from Florida International University and attended the Ox-Bow Artist Residency as a Joan Mitchell Foundation scholarship recipient. Her solo exhibitions include "Dark Light" at the Örebro Läns Museum in Sweden and "Stitching the Gap" at the Lowe Art Museum (2022–23). She is represented by Diana Lowenstein Gallery.

Nicolás Leiva (b. 1958, Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine artist based in Miami. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in 1983 and continued his studies in Buenos Aires. He first exhibited outside Argentina in 1989, in San José, Costa Rica, and in 1990 moved to Miami on a visa for "exceptional talent," just as the city was emerging as a capital of Latin American art; his work soon became a recognizable part of that boom. Since 1996 he has expanded beyond painting and drawing into ceramics and the pictorial intervention of industrial surfaces, including automobiles, motorcycles, surfboards and guitars. He has exhibited and realized commissions across Latin America, the United States and Europe, as well as South Africa and the Middle East. His work is held by MALBA in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. He divides his time between his Miami studio and Argentina.