REFLECTIONS, FORMS AND THOUGHTS

Featuring selected works by: Carlos Andrade, Felix Rios, and Migdalia Salazar

A vibrant study of line and form. Geometry becomes rhythm, color becomes feeling, and each piece offers its own quiet meditation on balance, movement, and the shapes that live within memory and imagination.

Miami Shores, FL — CLAUG Creative Studio is pleased to present Reflections, Forms, and Thoughts, a group exhibition opening on November 29 at 7:00 PM as part of Miami Art Week and the Art Basel Miami 2025 celebrations. Featuring works by Carlos Andrade, Migdalia Salazar, and Felix Ríos, the exhibition explores geometry, perception, and material transformation through mixed media practices rooted in contemporary abstraction.

Located in the heart of Miami Shores, CLAUG Creative Studio continues its mission to cultivate an open, dynamic space for contemporary art and community engagement. Reflections, Forms, and Thoughts marks the studio’s first group exhibition, expanding the visual dialogue beyond the resident artist’s practice and bringing three distinct voices into conversation.

About the Exhibition

Across mixed media and dimensional acrylic constructions, the works in Reflections, Forms, and Thoughts investigate how form, rhythm, and perception interact.

Carlos Andrade

Artist and founder of CLAUG, Andrade works with found materials—mirrors, convex lenses, braided synthetic fibers, wood—to create his signature “braided eye” pieces. These works function as portals: organic, tactile structures that hold a central mirror, inviting the viewer into a shifting play of reflection and self-recognition. Andrade also presents a series of mixed-media flower compositions and circular mirrored works that fuse craft, intuition, and symbolic form.

Migdalia Salazar

Salazar’s practice centers on photographic works built with dimensional acrylic that extend the language of geometric abstraction. The acrylic functions as a translucent volume that makes each image resemble a floating sculpture. This exhibition presents three moments of her trajectory, two from her work as a visual artist and one from her furniture design practice.

Felix Ríos

In Striped Diaries, Rios distills visual experience to its most essential elements. Using only vertical or horizontal stripes within a strict black-and-white palette, the work investigates repetition, spatial tension, and the optical vibrations that arise as the viewer’s eye searches for stability. Subtle disruptions in the pattern introduce rhythm and movement, transforming a reduced visual language into an active field of perception.

Together, the three artists create an immersive environment where line, color, and material become active forces—revealing geometry’s poetic, reflective, and expressive capacities.