Coming Forth By Day
The exhibition presents Miami-born artist Woody De Othello’s new series of ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze, rooted in precolonial and diasporic African spiritual traditions at Pérez Art Museum Miami running from November 13, 2025 to June 28, 2026.
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day — Pérez Art Museum Miami (1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132, USA), running from November 13, 2025 to June 28, 2026
Exhibition Description
In coming forth by day, De Othello invites viewers into an immersive environment where clay-painted walls, subtle herbal scents, and sculptural works co-exist to explore the primordial relationship between body, earth, and spirit. He draws on materials and motifs like nkisi power figures, Dogon ritual objects and Egyptian pyramids to animate everyday domestic items—mirrors, clocks, vessels—transforming them into anthropomorphic figures rich with memory and emotion. As the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Miami, the show underscores his connection to the city and delves into how objects become vessels of history, spiritual resonance, and human feeling.
