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December 10, 2016 (MIAMI, FL) - Anna Betbeze works out of a storm of fire and color and fur. Fluffy wool carpets become her surfaces with aggression and caress. For years, Betbeze has used the traditional wool rugs to meditate on saturation, volumetric color, touch, pleasure, class, ritual, and value. For her debut exhibition at Nina Johnson, Betbeze will exhibit several large scaled works alongside a new series of works on paper.

Betbeze thinks of this body of work as developing a dynamic relationship to the present moment, to empathy and eroticism. Betbeze lashes and contours, breaks and …