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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

  • Derrick Adams+

  • Bjorn Akerblom+

  • Deborah Anzinger+

  • Damian Aquiles+

  • Stefan Bondell+

  • Elizabeth Colomba+

  • Renee Cox+

  • DAIN+

  • Di-Andre Caprice Davis+

  • Brendan Fernandes+

  • Alex Gardner+

  • Hugh Hayden+

  • Nadine Ijewere+

  • Esteban Jefferson+

  • Leasho Johnson+

  • Caroline Larsen+

  • Will Martyr+

  • Musa N. Nxumalo+

  • Karyn Olivier+

  • Ebony G. Patterson+

  • Stikki Peaches+

  • Kelley Sinnapah-Mary+

  • Paul Anthony Smith+

  • Shinique Smith+

  • Phillip Thomas+

  • Michael Vasquez+

  • Cosmo Whyte+

  • Kehinde Wiley+

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  • Allison Janae Hamilton+

  • Hyphen-Labs+

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  • Heliotrope Foundation

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The Dean Collection and Bacardi are pleased to present No Commission: Miami 2017, a three-day, art and music experience taking place December 7 – 9, 2017, at Soho Studios in Wynwood.

No Commission is a roving experiential platform organized by The Dean Collection & Bacardi to forge a direct link between art and art patronage. No Commission is designed specifically to support artists in different territories around the world.

No Commission Miami 2017 casts a thematic light on "Island Might", which suggests the power and possibility, tradition and future of a place and its people. The "ways of an island"— its functioning components and life essentials are guiding principles. We examine family, land & sea, ritual, revolution and color as elemental forces that can illuminate the roadmap for a more generous, stable fate.

With these considerations, emerging and established artists from North America and the Caribbean, illustrate a vision of the future linked to scrutiny of the past. Through painting, photography, installation, video and prints, viewers witness the mechanics of skilled narrators who distill their memories, motivations and handiwork.

No Commission also welcomes a unique activation to its Miami 2017 platform:

Bacardi’s Women in Leadership initiative highlights and encourages the work of current and future female leaders focused on innovation and community engagement. WIL salutes Hyphen Labs and Allison Janae Hamilton who will each present an immersive installation at No Commission Miami. Hyphen Labs is an international team of women of color, working at the intersection of technology, art and science. They explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design including a methodology for bringing cognitive impact research in Immersive Virtual Reality into public spaces. Allison Janae Hamilton is a multi-media artist, born in Kentucky and raised in Florida, who creates environments that consider how the American landscape contributes to concepts of "Americana" and the social construction of space, particularly in the rural American south.

No Commission Miami is the sixth in a series of artist support collaborations. Past editions were held in Miami, New York, London, Shanghai and Berlin where artworks were sold and artists retained 100% of sales proceeds. The No Commission platform is realized through a partnership between Bacardi, Swizz Beatz, and The Dean Collection in their continued support of cultural visionaries around the world.

The Dean Collection and Bacardi are pleased to present No Commission: Miami 2017, a three-day, art and music experience taking place December 7 – 9, 2017, at Soho Studios in Wynwood.

No Commission is a roving experiential platform organized by The Dean Collection & Bacardi to forge a direct link between art and art patronage. No Commission is designed specifically to support artists in different territories around the world.

No Commission Miami 2017 casts a thematic light on "Island Might", which suggests the power and possibility, tradition and future of a place and its people. The "ways of an island"— its functioning components and life essentials are guiding principles. We examine family, land & sea, ritual, revolution and color as elemental forces that can illuminate the roadmap for a more generous, stable fate.

With these considerations, emerging and established artists from North America and the Caribbean, illustrate a vision of the future linked to scrutiny of the past. Through painting, photography, installation, video and prints, viewers witness the mechanics of skilled narrators who distill their memories, motivations and handiwork.

No Commission also welcomes a unique activation to its Miami 2017 platform:

Bacardi’s Women in Leadership initiative highlights and encourages the work of current and future female leaders focused on innovation and community engagement. WIL salutes Hyphen Labs and Allison Janae Hamilton who will each present an immersive installation at No Commission Miami. Hyphen Labs is an international team of women of color, working at the intersection of technology, art and science. They explore emotional, human-centered and speculative design including a methodology for bringing cognitive impact research in Immersive Virtual Reality into public spaces. Allison Janae Hamilton is a multi-media artist, born in Kentucky and raised in Florida, who creates environments that consider how the American landscape contributes to concepts of "Americana" and the social construction of space, particularly in the rural American south.

No Commission Miami is the sixth in a series of artist support collaborations. Past editions were held in Miami, New York, London, Shanghai and Berlin where artworks were sold and artists retained 100% of sales proceeds. The No Commission platform is realized through a partnership between Bacardi, Swizz Beatz, and The Dean Collection in their continued support of cultural visionaries around the world.

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The Dean Collection and Bacardi are pleased to present No Commission: Berlin, a three-day, art and music experience taking place June 29 – July 1, 2017, at Kraftwerk Rummelsberg.

No Commission is a roving experiential platform organized by The Dean Collection & Bacardi to forge a direct link between art and art patronage. No Commission is designed specifically to support artists in different territories around the world.

Contemporary Berlin is a hub for prolific experimentation, the city is a convergence of radical social histories and underground creative networks that weave together to create a dynamic present. It is where transient geniuses and hometown heroes flock to find artistic freedom, rigor and enlightenment. No Commission celebrates Berlin using the city as inspiration to examine the crossroad, the intersection point.

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A parallel contemplation is the Golden Era of 1920s Berlin, a time when intellectual life flourished amidst the social chaos of the inter-World War period and opportunities existed for anyone with groundbreaking ideas. Decadence of thought and action ruled while uncertainty fueled innovation and passionate politics. Indulgence commanded cabarets and nightclubs and catastrophe heightened visionary impulse.

In this spirit, No Commission Berlin artists, both emerging and established, from Africa, Europe and North America illustrate a vision of the world as they see it. Through painting, photography and prints, viewers witness the cognitive mechanics of cultural narrators who distill their memories, motivations and handiwork.

No Commission welcomes two unique activations to our Berlin platform:

The Heliotrope Foundation, founded by artist Caledonia ‘Swoon’ Curry presents an exhibition of prints from 50 artists to be sold in support of communities recovering from social, environmental and economic crises.

No Commission Berlin, Central St. Martins, London and Berlin Masters join forces to exhibit the work of four selected 2017 graduates who demonstrate a capacity for future success in the visual arts.

No Commission Berlin is the fifth in a series of artist support collaborations. Past editions were held in Miami, New York, London and Shanghai where artworks were sold and artists retained 100% of sales proceeds. To date, No Commission has put $3 million dollars into artists’ hands.

No Commission is realized through a partnership between Bacardi, Swizz Beatz, and The Dean Collection in their continued support of cultural visionaries around the world.

Artists

Amaury Berillon

Morgan Blair

Walker Brengel

Jonas Burgert

Jens Einhorn

Kadara Enyeasi

Jamie Evans

FAILE

Shepard Fairey

Wendy Fulenwider Liszt

Wyatt Gallery

Rachel Garrard

The Heliotrope Foundation

Nadine Ijewere

Paul Insect

Marcus Jahmal

Royal Jarmon

Manuel Kirsch

Jerome Lagarrigue

Caroline Larsen

Daniel Jack Lyons

Nelson Makamo

Jaybo Monk

Jayson Musson

Yoh Nagao

Musa N. Nxumalo

Okuda

Felipe Pantone

Fabio Ruffet

Jason Seife

Semra Sevin

Ming Smith

Matthew Stone

Rupert Whale

Zio Ziegler