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The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)
791-793 NE 125th St
Miami, FL 33161
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Phone Number 786.953.8807
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) is pleased to present Postcards From the Artist, a group exhibition featuring American artist Milton Bowens, Haitian-American artist Laetitia Adam-Rabel, and Nigerian artist Oluwatomisin Olabode. Postcards From the Artist runs from May 23 – June 27 , 2025. CAMP will be hosting an opening reception on May 23, 2025, in our North Miami gallery from 6–9 PM.
Through mixed media, painting, and figurative work,each artist responds to the lived and inherited histories that shape their creative voices. Bowens draws from archival materials to trace the ongoing impact of African American history on the present. Adam-Rabel explores personal identity through the lens of race, womanhood, and ancestry, while Olabode challenges surface-level perception through stylized, confrontational portraiture.
Together, their works act as visual dispatches—postcards from experience—marking the complexities of memory, culture, and the human condition.
ABOUT OUR EXHIBITING ARTISTS
MILTON BOWENS (b. 1967 American)
Milton Bowens, born and raised in Oakland, CA is the 5th son and 10th child of his family, which makes for his unique artistic signature Milton 510. His work, which takes inspiration from History and Culture, brings to the foreground issues of perseverance, pride, perspective, and affect. Milton 510's 'Afro Classical' collection, an anthology of paintings depicting the cultural importance of Jazz, Art and Poetry during the Harlem Renaissance Era, was used as part of course study on 'The Harlem Renaissance ' at the African Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. His 'Art of Education' Collection was used as part of course study at UC Davis with works belonging to the collection of the Transformative Justice In Education Center and works from that collection were featured at Twin Rivers Unified School Districts, MLK Just Dream Galleries Project (which he founded in 2014, in partnership with the district's VAPA department).In 2011 Milton 510 received a resolution from the California Legislative Black Caucus for his work on arts and education in the public schools. He is an Artistic License Award recipient, given by the California Lawyers for the Arts.
LAETITIA ADAM-RABEL (b. 1978 Haitian-American)
Laeti is a Haitian-American artist living in Miami, Florida. She is a wife and mother. Laeti studied Fashion Design at Parsons in New York and received her Bachelor of Science in Art Education at Florida International University. She uses various media to address social and personal issues like climate change, blackness, feminism, inclusion, and her role as a new mother in creating a better world. She uses painting, textile arts, photography, videography, and sound art to portray beauty, while conveying her sometimes painful emotions. Laeti is a lifelong learner who seeks to discover something new from every encounter.
“I interpret my work as ever-evolving, just as we humans evolve. We are never the same from one instant to another; we are changed by our experiences, circumstances and wisdom. Likewise, I change through my work as my work changes by my hand.”
OLUWATOMISIN OLABODE (b. 1990 Nigerian)
Oluwatomisin Olabode is a contemporary artist out of Lagos, Nigeria with a focus on presenting works that approach subjects ranging from black culture, history and socio-political events that are or have surrounded our world today. Often, initially termed as works of the grotesque, in truth his works and visual style of representation convey emotion, power, influence, and beauty while being inspired by the excellence of black culture, history and stories.
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