Salvaged: Nature's Readymades by Yusimy Lara

Deering Estate in partnership with Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus Art Gallery presents Salvaged: Nature’s Readymades by Yusimy Lara, curated by Liliam Dominguez. This solo exhibition will open with a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sep. 3, at MDC Kendall Campus Art Gallery, and will remain on view at MDC’s Kendall Campus Art Gallery through Oct. 1, 2026. Additional public programs and events accompanying the exhibition include a guided visit and an artist talk at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 19th. Additional programming will be announced on MDC’s website and social media channels.

Salvaged: Nature’s Readymades presents new work by Miami-based artist Yusimy Lara, who transforms storm-stripped palm fronds, sea-worn shells, and asphalt residue into sculptural forms that speak to memory, migration, and geologic time. Working almost exclusively with concrete, rebar, and asphalt, materials more associated with urban development than fine art, Lara reverses their usual function, using the very substances of erasure to preserve and honor discarded natural fragments. Rooted in the shared limestone shelf beneath Havana and Miami, the exhibition considers the artist’s own journey, from Cuba, through Italy, to South Florida, as a kind of sediment: layered, compressed, and never fully erased.

Exhibition Dates: Sept. 3, 2026 – Oct. 1, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, 6-8 p.m. RSVP online through Eventbrite.

Artist Talk: Sept. 19, 2026, 2-3 pm

Location: MDC Kendall Campus Art Gallery, 11011 SW 104th St. Miami, FL 33176

Free & open to the public.