The works of Sergio Vega are best understood in the context of what Paulo Herkenhoff defines as "the inexistent plausible." This term indicates that the very nature of the work is to be entirely hypothetical, yet persuasive in its plausibility. In the case of Sergio Vega's work, his hypotheses furnish a plausible reality: that of "Latin American Art."

The series Parrot color charts involves photographs of parrots cropped and presented as sources of colors. Cloned from individual pixels in the photographs these colors are reproduced in the adjacent geometric planes that make up the grid composition. This tautological relationship between referent (photo) and signifier (color) could be equivalent to exhibiting a painting and along with it, the paint tubes, the palette and the brushes used to mix the colors that went into the making of the painting. In addition, the visual harmony created by the color scheme and the contiguity of photographic image along with non­representational abstract form point to a paradoxical impossibility of translation. The artist sustains that: "Based on Roland Barthes' assertion that photography is a message without a code, the unavoidable result of abstraction would be to produce a code without a message."

Frames of Reference explores 45 works of Latin American art from the Jorge M. Pérez art collection, gifted to the Museum December 2011.  The show is curated and presented through an art historical lens, emphasizing the creative and conceptual contributions of artists such as José Bedia, Beatriz González, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta Echaurren, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-Garcia, among others. The exhibition is the last in the Museum’s current space and marks the start of its transition to its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Museum Park. The Museum will reopen as Pérez Art Museum Miami in honor of Pérez’s now $40 million gift of cash and art.

The complete collection of 110 works will be integrated into the Museum’s existing collection and displayed in the new facility. Other major works in the collection which will be highlighted at future dates, including works by Antony Caro, Chuck Close and Robert Rauschenberg.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book, featuring full-page color images of each work featured in the exhibition alongside comprehensive descriptions. The book also includes a conversation between Ostrander and Pérez and an essay by scholar Elizabeth Cerejido.

Miami Art Museum presents recent and newly commissioned work by approximately a dozen Miami-based artists in New Work Miami 2013.

New Work Miami 2013 Artists:
Gideon Barnett (b. 1982 Jasper, Tennessee)
Bhakti Baxter (b. 1979, Miami)
Loriel Beltran (b. 1985, Caracas)
Consuelo Castañeda (b. 1958, Havana)
Moira Holohan (b. 1976, New York)
Sinisa Kukec (b.1970, Zagreb)
Emmett Moore (b. 1988, Miami)
George Sanchez-Calderon (b. 1967, New York)
Tom Scicluna (b. 1974, London)
Odalis Valdivieso (b. 1969, Caracas)