Beyond the Brush: The Artists’ Thread
The artists of Beyond the Brush weave a shared vision that stretches the language of painting into new dimensions. Through fiber, textile, mixed media, and inventive material exploration, they transform surfaces into vessels of memory, identity, and cultural resonance. Their work navigates the spaces between the personal and the collective, the visible and the ephemeral, often guided by feminine, social, or spiritual sensibilities—inviting viewers to step into worlds where art becomes both experience and connection.
Yochi Y. Avin
Memory, material, and identity converge in Yochi Y. Avin’s multidisciplinary work, where painting, textile, photography, and installation weave together to trace personal and collective histories. Thread, sheer fabric, and worn imagery meet industrial materials, creating tactile, poetic compositions that explore fragility, persistence, and the echoes of memory across time.
Born in Poland and raised in Israel, Yochi studied fine arts in Israel and Italy, earning her BFA from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Based in South Florida, she has expanded her practice to performance and theater, blending visual and experiential forms to investigate how memory is preserved, reshaped, and inherited.
As an educator, Yochi engages students in material exploration and conceptual inquiry, inspiring curiosity, reflection, and creative experimentation. Her work transforms familiar textures and images into layered narratives, inviting viewers to feel the delicate passage of time and the intimate traces of lived experience.
Marina Font
Exploring memory, identity, and the psyche, Marina Font transforms photography, collage, textiles, and found objects into immersive, layered worlds. Threads and fragments become tactile narratives of womanhood, domesticity, and resilience, inviting viewers into emotional landscapes where personal and collective histories collide and reassemble.
Born in Argentina in 1970, Font has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is held in the MDC Museum of Art + Design, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum at FIU, and the LOWE Art Museum. Her monograph Anatomy is Destiny was spotlighted by the Aperture Foundation at aipad.
By stitching together memory, psyche, and material, Font creates multisensory experiences that pulse with transformation, resilience, and poetic depth, inviting audiences to reflect, imagine, and connect.
Karla Kantorovich
Transforming paint, textiles, handmade paper, and found objects into layered explorations of life, decay, and renewal, Miami-based, Mexico City-born mixed media artist Karla Kantorovich draws inspiration from the textures, cycles, and resilience of the natural world. She deconstructs and reassembles sustainably sourced materials into immersive, tactile works that invite viewers to experience the rhythms of nature and the poetry of transformation.
Her work has earned international recognition, including the Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts in 2021, which led to her immersive installation AMATE at Piero Atchugarry Gallery in 2022. Exhibitions span prestigious venues such as the XIX Bienal Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, MACO Oaxaca, the MFA Exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Mexican Consulate in Miami, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Holding an MFA from Florida International University, she is also a passionate teaching artist, inspiring dialogue, creativity, and community engagement. Through her art, Karla weaves material, memory, and muse into visual stories that illuminate our profound connection to the natural world.
Magda Love
Bursting with color, texture, and imagination, Magda Love transforms public spaces into immersive stories celebrating nature, humanity, and shared experience. Inspired by Magical Realism and Latin American folk arts, she blends painting, sculpture, textiles, and embroidery to create works that invite viewers to dream, explore, and connect. From New York City murals to intimate mixed-media pieces, her practice pushes boundaries of scale, medium, and narrative.
Her bold, playful, and socially engaged projects have reached audiences worldwide through collaborations with Google, Red Bull, W Hotels, Johnnie Walker, and Hudson Yards, earning recognition from the United Nations, MOMA PS1, TEDx Fulton St., and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Passionate about education, she works with schools and communities to spark creativity and dialogue.
Born Maria Magdalena Marcenaro in Argentina, Magda weaves her heritage into every creation, exploring cultural memory, identity, and connection. Her work is an invitation to imagine, reflect, and celebrate the beauty and magic of everyday life.
Aurora Molina
Threads, fibers, and sculpted forms transform into immersive narratives under Aurora Molina’s hands, illuminating aging, invisibility, and human connection. Her work fuses texture, color, and memory, turning the overlooked into tactile, poetic experiences that confront beauty standards, isolation, and societal erasure. Each piece invites viewers to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Aurora emigrated to the U.S. at sixteen, pursuing an AA in Visual Arts at Miami Dade College, a BFA in Mixed Media at Florida International University, and an MFA in Contemporary Art from Universidad Europea de Madrid. Represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery since 2011, her multidisciplinary practice blends embroidery, sculpture, and drawing into works that are both conceptually rigorous and emotionally resonant.
A committed community-builder, Aurora co-founded FAMA, the Fiber Artists-Miami Association, supporting collaboration, mentorship, and visibility for textile artists. As an educator, she inspires students to explore creative pathways, think critically, and harness art as a tool for personal and social transformation.
Aurora Molina’s fiber art spins threads of memory, vulnerability, and resilience into visual narratives that make the hidden visible, the ordinary extraordinary, and invite reflection, empathy, and connection.
Lisu Vega
Blending fiber, photography, sculpture, and fashion, Lisu Vega creates immersive stories of migration, memory, identity, and sustainability. Raised in Venezuela and based in Miami, her work transforms materials into tactile, layered narratives that invite viewers into personal and collective experiences of resilience and transformation.
Her pieces have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally, including Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, CICA Museum (South Korea), and Kates-Ferri Projects (NYC). Recognized as Designer of the Year at Miami Art Fashion Week, her work is in private collections from Florida to New York.
Through her multidisciplinary practice, Vega weaves material, memory, and imagination into dynamic experiences that spark reflection, connection, and wonder.