Mindy Solomon is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Zoe Schweiger at the gallery, Sun-kissed, a love letter to Miami’s nightlife. Drawing from scenes at places such as Twist on South Beach and Willy’s, a beloved gay bar that recently closed in Wynwood, alongside longtime favorites like Over Under, Mac’s Club Deuce, Floyd, and Gramps, Schweiger documents the intimacy and vitality of these environments. Her paintings are rooted in lived experience, where music reverberates, cigare!e smoke dri”s from nearby bodies, and the heavy Miami air clings to skin.

Within these spaces, friends and loved ones dance, laugh, reapply lipstick, and drink between conversations. Vibrant reds melt beneath them as lights flicker. A warm haze encompasses them, sweat trickling down faces as bodies warp, overlap, and wrap around one another. The figures blur into their surroundings, mirroring the fleeting nature of the night. This series of works encapsulates her love for music, intimacy, and friendship, where moments of Miami’s familiar queer community are suspended in time.

These paintings act as an archive of a city in flux, where many of the spaces depicted have closed, echoing a larger loss. Through these scenes, Schweiger represents a Miami that may soon no longer exist. Eroded not only by development and time, but by the rising waters that threaten to reshape the city. These looming realities are what spur her to make these works, preserving the warmth, sweat, love, and music of a changing Miami.