untitled art miami beach
december 3 - december 7, 2025
booth N33
ocean drive and 12th street, miami beach, fl
For the Nest sector of Untitled Art 2025, homework proudly presents a solo booth by Roscoè B. Thické III a Miami born lens based artist whose work integrates traditional photography with experimental printing and framing techniques, constructing visual narratives that examine themes of family, community, and intimacy.
Thické’s work reflects the vibrant cultural fabric of Miami, while also engaging with the universal longing for connection and belonging. You can see South Florida’s influence in the way he plays with photography and framing. Through the limits of the window grates, his images have texture and movement—they don’t just capture a scene, they pull you into it. There’s a sense of community, of closeness, of those in-between moments that make a place feel like home. His work feels both deeply personal and widely relatable, much like the region itself—a place where so many identities coexist, intersect, and shape each other in ways that are constantly evolving.
Our booth is part of the Nest section at Untitled Art Miami Beach, which is an invitation-only initiative supported by the fair, created to lower traditional barriers to art fair participation. The section encourages experimentation and new ideas, and this year it champions emerging artists and young galleries. The 2025 Nest guest curator, Jonny Tanna with Harlesden High Street, brings a focus on bridging social and cultural divides within contemporary art. We are proud to be included in a space shaped by access, equity, and forward thinking practice.
Within this context, homework’s presentation features new pieces by Thické, ‘The Redeemer’ and ‘The Witness,’ two works who are in active dialogue. ‘The Redeemer’ reimagines the iconic Christ the Redeemer pose through a Black figure dispersed across nine diamond shaped frames, transforming the familiar metal window grates of public housing into a structure of reverence and grounding the piece in the sonic language of Black praise through tambourine forms fitted with bronze cymbals. ‘The Witness’ turns inward, centering Roscoè’s son Blake in a moment of quiet self observation behind the grid, capturing the instinctive retreat children make when the world presses too close. These two works are shown alongside a range of Roscoè’s signature pieces that chart the evolution of his practice, from early experiments with domestic materials to the refined visual language that defines his work today.
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The Redeemer and The Witness
In The Redeemer, Roscoè B. Thické III reimagines the iconic Christ the Redeemer posture through the image of a Black man with locs, dispersed across nine diamond shaped frames arranged in a three by three grid. The form draws directly from the metal diamond window grates found throughout public housing, transforming a structure historically tied to surveillance and constraint into a vessel of reverence. What once operated as hostile architecture becomes a sacred visual system.
Each diamond frame functions as a tambourine fitted with bronze cymbals, grounding the work in the sonic language of Black praise traditions. The tambourine, central to worship and collective devotion, carries the weight of rhythm and testimony. Its presence here is not symbolic alone. The embedded cymbals hold the memory of vibration, suggesting movement even in silence and extending the spiritual charge of the piece beyond its physical boundaries.
Bronze dominates the work, recalling the description of Christ in the Book of Revelation as having “hair like wool” and “feet like polished bronze.” This link destabilizes the Eurocentric portrayals that have shaped Western iconography for centuries. Silver cymbals appear only around the figure’s head, forming a halo that nods to classical Christian art while asserting a contemporary and culturally specific redefinition of sanctity. Their contrast introduces a luminous break that frames the head in an aura of transformation and ascent.
Through these elements, The Redeemer becomes a meditation on spirituality, embodiment, and cultural memory, articulating a vision of divinity rooted in Black experience.
In The Witness, Blake, the artist’s son, turns inward rather than outward. His gaze retreats into his own interior world, echoing the instinctive withdrawal children often make when the surrounding environment becomes overwhelming. Positioned behind the grid, he occupies a quiet space of reflection, self-awareness, and interior clarity. He is not performing for the viewer. He is observing himself.
The Redeemer and The Witness operate in deliberate dialogue. One embodies protection. The other carries testimony. Together they trace a continuum of presence and belief, revealing the layered ways individuals hold faith, remember lineage, and navigate the worlds that shape them.
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Roscoè B. Thické III is a lens-based artist and curator whose work lives at the intersection of memory, place, and the quiet weight of inheritance. Raised in Liberty City and Miami Gardens, his practice is rooted in the physical and emotional landscapes that shaped his early life—spaces filled with texture and meaning.
Thické first discovered photography while stationed in South Korea during his service in the United States Army. A photography class at the college on Camp Casey sparked an awakening, revealing how images could hold memory, emotion, and history. This experience laid the foundation for a lifelong practice centered on curiosity and storytelling.
Working with photography, archival materials, sculpture, and installation, Thické creates visual narratives drawn from both personal history and collective experience. He frequently uses domestic materials—such as the diamond-shaped window grates from his grandmother’s Liberty Square home—as both symbol and structure. These forms serve as portals between past and future, embodying the tension between fragility and permanence. His signature blue Plexiglas, affectionately named “Pork N Bean Blue,” honors the hues of his childhood neighborhood, creating a personal geography that reflects Liberty Square’s complex legacy.
Thické studied photography and design at Broward College and has exhibited nationally at institutions including The Bass Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and Oolite Arts. His work has also been featured in film festivals such as Tribeca, DOC NYC, and the New Orleans Film Festival.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the 2021 Ellie Schneiderman Creator Award from Oolite Arts, the 2022 Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant, a 2023 Suncoast Emmy Award for his film 1402 Pork N Bean Blue, the 2025 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the 2025 DVCAI Residency in Paramaribo, Suriname. His past residencies include the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, MASS MoCA, and OSMOS in New York.
As both an artist and curator, Thické approaches his work with an artist-first perspective, building projects that prioritize empathy, dialogue, and representation. His curatorial work, including the exhibition SUNS & SHADOWS, reflects his ongoing commitment to honoring legacy through balance, conversation, and care.
