Vincent Miranda

San Francisco, CA

March 2-31, 2021

BIO

(b. 1991) Vincent Miranda is an artist from South Florida, currently based in San Francisco. Using sculptural investigations, his work explores a contemporary Southern identity, informed by hip-hop, The Come Up, and artifacts of a South Florida landscape. He has shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Charlie James Gallery, Boca Raton Museum of Art, receiving his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2019.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Coming from down South, you notice it's got a different vibe; this lethargic, slow-moving type of feeling, present in everything from dialect to climate…...you know, that Southern drawl. Raised in an ethnically mixed household, Miranda found himself caught between cultural identities. This lack of self created a sort of “identity vacuum”; one that was filled by his environment— filled by the whole Down South. 

His work explores moments where this lived experience intersects with entities like hip-hop, masculinity, and landscape— exploring how these topics inform our identity as young men-of-color. Referencing regionally specific gestures and artifacts, his sculptural investigations convey an experience of a 'contemporary South.'

Miranda also confronts the idea of the “Come Up”; the need to present ourselves as having "come up" out of certain socioeconomic conditions. Jewelry, often a representation of this upward mobility, is referred to as ‘water’ or ‘glass’ down South. Using these terms as the material source, they manifest as glass armatures and vessels to hold water; ultimately becoming vehicles to elevate and present gestures from which the jewelry is displayed.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: VincentMirandaArt.com

Instagram: @vincentmiranda_