Take a peek at some of our favorite pairings in #FireFigureFantasy, ICA Miami’s first major exhibition showcasing its permanent collection. Artists @RashidJohnson (b.1977, Chicago, IL), @MandyElSayegh (b.1985, Selangor, Malaysia), and @McArthurBinion (b.1946, Macon, MS) all embrace a grid-like motif in their work. Johnson's work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history. His expressive "Bruise Paintings" are rendered in deep blue oil paint with half-geometric and half-human faces arranged in viscous fields of line and color. In El-Sayegh's "Net Grid" canvases, overpainted grids simultaneously structure and obscure the detritus of popular culture. The works continues the artist's interest in the formation and break-down of systems of order – be they bodily, linguistic, or political –through repetitive collaging. Binion's expansive body of work engages language, African American history, identity, color theory, and the genres of modernism, minimalism, and geometric abstraction. Completed during the trial of Derek Chauvin, "Modern:Ancient:Brown:Cross(ed) The Line" features imagery of a lynched man. What do you see when you look at these works? Don’t miss them on the third floor of the museum, on view through October 30th. ✨ ______ Rashid Johnson, Bruise Painting “Ask Me Now”, 2021, museum purchase with funds provided by Cao Hui and Li Xiaoxi; and Robert Kramer, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Mandy El-Sayegh, "Net Grid (glyph)," 2020, museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth Green; McArthur Binion, "Modern:Ancient:Brown:Cross(ed) The Line," 2021, courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London. Installation views: Zachary Balber. #ICAMiami #painting #miamiart #RashidJohnson #MandyElSayegh #McArthurBinion #miami #museum #miamidesigndistrict