Once upon a time, there was a band called CAVITY who were from Miami and were very “doom” before that word became a label for almost anything heavy in music. CAVITY seemed to be a part of every interesting thing happening musically in Miami in 1992-2003. They drew national attention to the local scene, and alumni such as Steve Brooks, Juan Montoya, Beatriz Monteavaro and Jason Landrian went on to noteworthy projects such as Torche, Floor, Holly Hunt and Black Cobra.

Bassist Daniel Gorostiaga, for his part, got on a visual arts path that started with flyers and ‘zines, progressed to an MFA in fine arts and — alongside the occasional CAVITY reunion — led to work in art with an emphasis on relief prints such as linocuts, or block prints, made by cutting grooves into stamp-like blocks that are then inked and pressed into paper.

Gorostiaga will be exhibiting some of his output at a show called Ways of Seeing hosted by the Hani Honey company store and restaurant in Stuart. There will art by Daniel Gorostiaga, his daughter Anna Gorostiaga, and Boston-based painter JR Ringdahl. For opening night on Friday, July 7 there will also be food, drinks, and music by Daniel and an undisclosed (for now) collaborator to follow.

The exhibition gets its name from a book and BBC series by an English art critic named John Berger. “I thought it was a good title to represent the different ways in which the three of us see the world and how we represent it in our works,” Daniel Gorostiaga tells PureHoney.

Anna Gorostiaga’s art is comprised of drawings, paintings, linocut prints and silk-screening on paper and fabric. Her subject matter is generally representations of animals and imaginary characters in a tattoo flash style.

Ringdahl’s online biography describes “multi-layered oil paint and clear, epoxy resin paintings” that are “color intensive and manipulate depth perception.”He also makes “fruit sculptures” using clear, epoxy resin to preserve fruit at various stages of decay — which sounds doom-y in a way that CAVITY fans would appreciate. Click thumbnails below to enlarge!

Dan Gorostiaga

Anna Gorostiaga

JR Ringdahl

Ways of Seeing opens 7pm Friday, July 7 at Hani Honey in Stuart cavityafterdeath.bandcamp.com ~ Tim Moffatt