The Lowe Features Caribbean Art

The Lowe Art Museum, South Florida’s first and most comprehensive art museum, features temporary exhibitions and world-renowned innovative pieces ranging from paintings to sculpture installations. Since the opening of its free-standing facility in 1952 at the University of Miami, thanks to philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, the Lowe Art Museum has been a University and Greater Miami staple, showcasing timeless and resounding art pieces in various forms—from Asian antiquities to Renaissance paintings to modern and contemporary art.

With its prime location in Miami, the Gateway to the Americas, the Lowe seems to have a slight affinity for its southern neighboring region. Featuring artists and artwork from throughout the Caribbean Basin, the Lowe exhibits pieces that naturally exude certain themes and shares some common artistic techniques. Any body of work, notes Jill Deupi, has certain markers or characteristics.

“I don’t want to be reductive, but if you’re looking at the Caribbean, the influence of tropical nature, of the sea, the quality of the light, which is so different than other parts of the world, that shines through,” says Deupi, Beaux Arts director and chief curator of the Lowe. “There is also this history of colonialism, of oppression, in various contexts, that also comes through; how could it not? It’s part of the fabric of the history of the Caribbean.”