Pan American Art Projects Opens From Ashes to Light and No More Heroes in Final Little River Exhibition
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Two new exhibitions—From Ashes to Light and No More Heroes—open November 30 at Pan American Art Projects, marking the gallery’s final season in Miami’s Little River before relocating to new spaces in Allapattah and another yet-to-be-announced site.
Sandra Ramos, La Cueva, 2025. Acrylic paint, charcoal, golden pigment and clay, 60 x 48 in
Sandra Ramos: From Ashes to Light
The solo exhibition features two bodies of work by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos: Golden Ruins: The Allegory of the Cave (2025) and Ashes & Diamonds (2018). Together, they trace a thematic arc from illusion to revelation, addressing cycles of destruction, enlightenment and rebirth.
In Golden Ruins, Ramos reinterprets Plato’s allegory for the digital age, framing contemporary life as a cavern of screens where virtual images replace lived experience. Through materials such as clay, charcoal and gold pigment, she reintroduces physicality to reflect on grounding, perception and the search for clarity.
The earlier series Ashes & Diamonds expands this reflection to the ruins of modern civilization. Works incorporate ash, coal and brittle structures that evoke ecological vulnerability, political uncertainty and the sense of standing at a threshold in history. Together, the pieces form a visual meditation on collapse and renewal, suggesting that illumination often begins in the aftermath of destruction.
Reynier Leyva Novo, Un dia feliz No. 6, 2016. Ultrachrome Print, 22 x 33 in (I) / 2.5 x 3.75 in (II)
Collective Exhibition: No More Heroes
The group show No More Heroes examines a world where cultural myths and collective ideals have eroded. Borrowing its title from the 1977 song by The Stranglers, the exhibition brings together represented artists and works from the gallery’s collection.
The featured artists navigate space between memory and silence, faith and doubt, reconstructing meaning from the remnants of once-fixed narratives. Rather than mourning the loss of heroes, the show presents their disappearance as a point of possibility—an opening for new forms of vulnerability, resistance and beauty. In this terrain, art steps in not to restore myth but to provoke reflection and illuminate what remains.
Courtesy of PanAmericanArt Projects.
A Farewell to Little River
These exhibitions close an important chapter for the gallery. Pan American Art Projects will soon move forward with a new showroom in Allapattah and a second location outside Miami, with details to be announced.
More information is available on the gallery’s website.
Location: 274 NE 67th Street, Miami
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.