Plexiglass Sheets, Brushed Aluminum Composite
40 x 40 x 3 inches
Jose Margulis
Biography
Jose Margulis was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1970. Margulis’s work explores the space where art, science, and philosophy meet. Driven by a genuine curiosity about how we experience reality, he explores duality, emotional nuance, and the unseen forces that shape our perception through his art. Inspired by science, optical effects, and philosophical questions, he creates works that act as thresholds- spaces where the visible and the felt begin to overlap. Margulis offers more than visual complexity- he offers an experience, His work opens a subtle dialogue between perceptions and emotion, inviting viewers to engage deeply and return often, each time discovering something new.
Jose Margulis slices plexiglass sheets into abstract, usually repeating forms, then hanging them in space using an aluminum composite material as a sort of rigid canvas. Most of his work is done using these plexiglass sheets with different levels of translucency in a range of colors, patterns, and textures. The bright and fully saturated color palettes to which he instinctively gravitates to are heavily influenced by the traditional Mexican arts and crafts which made a great impact on Jose during the time that he lived there.
Jose treats his pieces as “light traps” in which by controlling the placement of its components, he is able to create intriguing 3D containers. Working with light, color, and layering to create pieces that shift depending on the viewer’s position and the passage of time. His art invites quiet attention, offering a mediative experience that unfolds though movement and presence. The exposed patterns in this works are not absolutes or unique, because as the viewer changes their point of view, the work expresses a different narrative that is completely new within its own essence. It intrigues and fascinates Jose how the object mutates in front of him, with no other resource but a simple change of perspective. Going back and forth naturally, Jose tries to synthesize and integrate different perceptions that coexist as different facets of an object. Every time, he finds himself trying to lock that seemingly unreal angle in which we are able to contemplate the amazing connections among complex layers of facts, prejudices and beliefs; that “sometimes surreal” frame in which we discover how easily we could be absolutely wrong and misjudge everything that surrounds us, while tragicomically posing ourselves as proud holders of truth and owners of higher grounds.
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Education:
1987
Advance Photography, Instituto Neumann Caracas, Venezuela
2003
B.A Management, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela
Solo Exhibitions:
2025
Speaking Volumes, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2024
J. Margulis, Espaco arte gallery, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Portals of Discovery, Blank Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023
Dialects in Motion, Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2022
Illusions, Gefen Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
Underneath Duality, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Dual Realities, Contemporaneo Gallery, Asheville, NC, USA
Late Works, 1D3 Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Volumes Without Mass, Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2018
Dual Realities, The Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, FL, USA
Repetitions, Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2017
3D Vibrations, J. Margulis retrospective, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, USA
2016
Lightraps, J, Margulis, Galeria Gum, Miami, FL, USA
2015
Samskaras, AG Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2014
Volumetric, Galleria Gum, Miami, FL, USA
Group Exhibitions:
2026
Summer Group Show, Blankspace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2025
Fluctuations, Group Show, Metahaus Arts, Paris, FR
The Art of Curation, Group Show, Blank Space Seoul, New York, NY, USA
Juste Une Illusion, Espace art e liberté, Paris, France
Euforia, Uniq Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
OP art llusao e inclusao, Mayer Mizrahi Gallery, Soa Paolo, Brasil
Summer Group Show, Blankspace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Materia, Fisura Luz, Hotbook, Mexico City, Mexico
2024
Summer Collective, Backspace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Utopia, Mitte Projects, Miami, FL, USA
Noir et Blanc Art Basel, The Art Club, Miami, FL, USA
Voces del arte, Uniq Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Synergies: Geometric Art, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, FL, USA
Context Art Miami, AI Bo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2019
Play me, Group show, Mitte Projects, Miami, Fl. USA
Triangular, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France
Geometric abstraction in Latin America, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
2018
Carre latin, Latin American Art Festival, LCP+art, Palaia Royal, Paris, France
Pixels, GBG at Imago art in action, Coral Gables, FL., USA
2017
Art Basel Week Show, Art living room Gallery Miami, Fl ,USA
Kinetic Drive, Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
Geometric Abstraction, REN Gallery LA, California. USA
Bombay Saphire Artisan Series, Nmandi Gallery Miami, Fl. USA
3D Vibrations J.Margulis retrospective Solo Show, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, USA
The four elements, Sol Taplin Gallery. Miami, Fl. USA
2016
Abstracción-Creación, Galeria Viloria Blanco Maracaibo, Venezuela
Art Basel week Show, Art living room Gallery Miami, Fl, USA
Confluences in Brazilian Art, Art & Design Gallery Miami, Fl. USA
Arte en Mayo, Fundacion Rozas Botran, Guatemala, Guatemala
Metamorphic abstraction (Group exhibition by Naera Kim) Art Space One, NY, USA
2015
Summer group Exhibition, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
2013
Volumetric Galleria GUM, Miami, FL USA
Summer Collective Show, Alex Slato Kabinet, Miami, FL. USA
Art Fairs :
2026
Art Palm Beach, Mark Hachem Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Zona Maco, Mark Hachem Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Palm Beach Contemporary, Nicolas Auvray Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
SP Arte, Mayer Mizrahi Gallery, Soa Paolo, Brasil
Volta Basel, Mark Hachem Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2025
Zona Maco, Mark Hachem Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Palm Beach Contemporary, Mark Hachem Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Volta Basel, Mark Hachem Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Hamptons Fine Art, Nicolas Auvray Gallery, Hamptons, NY, USA
KIAF, Mark Hachem Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Istanbul, Mark Hachem Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Abu Dhabi Art, Mark Hachem Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Moderne Art Fair, Mark Hachem Gallery, Paris, France
Affordable Art NY, Nicolas Auvray Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2024
Art Miami, Mark Hachem Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Art Palm Beach, Mark Hachem Gallery, WPB, FL, USA
Palm Beach Contemporary, Mark Hachem Gallery, WPB, FL, USA
Zona Maco, Mark Hachem Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
KIAF, Mark Hachem Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Dubai Editions Mark Hachem Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2023
Palm Beach Contemporary, Oliver Cole Gallery, WPB, FL, USA
Art Wynwood, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Zona Maco, Mark Hachem Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Art Miami, Mark Hachem Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2022
Art Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Palm Beach Contemporary, Mark Hachem Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Palm Beach Contemporary, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Zona Maco, Mark Hachem Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2021
Art Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2020
VOLTA NY, Mark Hachem Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Art Wynwood, Oliver Cole Gallery, WPB, FL, USA
Palm Beach Contemporary, Oliver Cole Gallery, WPB, FL, USA
2019
Context Art Fair Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Art Palm Beach, Aibo Gallery, Purchase, NY, USA
LA Art Show, Rofa Projects, Potomac, MD, USA
2018
ARTto Art Toronto, ROFA Projects, Toronto, Canada
Context Art Fair Miami, Contempop Gallery, New York /Tel aviv
Awards:
2019
Salon des realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
2018
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, North America South east Winner
2017
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, North America South east finalist
Museo Ixchel, Guatemala Permanent Collection Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Collective exhibition at BOCA Museum of Modern Art, Boca Raton, FL USA
2016
International Emerging artist Award, Dubai UAE
2015
Educational exhibit and student talks Pine Crest Academy , Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA