Polychrome Affinities at Miami Dade Public Library From Oct 9th through Dec 15th, 2008 Polychrome Affinities is a collective exhibition of large-scale works by artists Guerra de la Paz, Michelle Weinberg and Magali Wilensky. The exhibition, curated by Michelle Weinberg, developed from a shared obsession among the artists involved with sorting elements from the visual environment according to color. Expressing her conception for the exhibition, Weinberg describes the artists as magpies, scavenging elements from the visible world and then filtering them through a deep, passionate involvement with color. The public scale of the works transforms the exhibition space into a vibrant, larger than life theater set. Visitors enter and exit the elevators to the second floor through Weinberg’s 16’ x 40’ mural on canvas depicting an imaginary plaza or strip mall inspired by Miami’s storefronts and building facades. Guerra de la Paz has erected a vast arch assembled from found articles of clothing in colors of the rainbow. Titled Indradhanush, it expresses the spiritual power of the rainbow in humanist terms. Ascending the staircase to the second floor are low relief sculptures of organic, possibly cellular forms by Wilensky, formed by rolled and sewn fabric remnants. They are microorganisms rendered here at the scale of spectacle. Weinberg’s planes, facades and building elevations, Guerra de la Paz’s castoffs and costumes, and Wilensky’s slivers of anatomy all act as “cross-sections” or slices of reality, stylized interpretations with symbolic resonance