Operation Epic Furious: Straight To Hell, on view Monday May 18 through Friday May 22, 11 AM - 7 PM
mtn space is pleased to host the anonymous art collective The Secret Handshake for a week-long interactive pop-up featuring one of three arcade games that were previously installed at the DC War Memorial. Inspired by the Trump administration’s use of video game–style military propaganda promoting the conflict with Iran, the work merges war messaging with gaming aesthetics to deliver a sharp satirical critique that has already drawn attention online and in the press. Visit mtn space this week to experience Operation Epic Furious: Straight to Hell.
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Reminder! This Friday, May 8, please join us for two events:
From 6–7 PM, Erica Prince has designed and will moderate a panel discussion on the intersection of creative practice + caretaking at the old mtn space. (500 lake Ave)
Then, from 7–9 PM, we’ll gather at the new mtn space (111 N. M st) to celebrate the closing of It Takes YEARS To Grow A Pineapple.
🖼️: Erica Prince,
Mono No Aware, 2026
Watercolor, monoprint, ink, block print, gouache, colored pencil, and drawings by mother and daughter, 22”× 30”
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This piece was created in collaboration with Erica’s daughter and mother. The pineapple was painted by her mother, a former painter living with Parkinson’s, whom Erica has cared for on and off over the past several years. The work was an exploration of the layered experience of sustaining an artistic practice alongside caregiving.
Two more weeks to view It Takes YEARS To Grow A Pineapple, a solo show of new works by Erica Prince.
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mtn space is open Thursday - Saturday 10 AM- 3PM, email [email protected] to book an appointment outside of business hours.
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Megastructure for Delicate Rarities, 2025
Gouache, block print, monoprint, colored pencil on paper
22” x 30”
Do You Even Care? — A panel discussion moderated by Erica Prince on the intersection of creative practice and caretaking on May 8 from 6–7 PM at mtn space. A closing reception for It Takes YEARS To Grow A Pineapple to follow from 7-9 PM.
Bringing together artists whose work is deeply intertwined with lived experiences of care, this conversation reflects the multitudes artists hold while sustaining both creative and caregiving practices. Central to Erica Prince’s work is an ongoing engagement with caretaking; not only as a personal reality, but as a conceptual and emotional framework. This panel extends that commitment, creating space for dialogue around labor, responsibility, intimacy, and the often unseen structures of support that shape artistic life.
The panel features artists Mylinh Chau, Tommy Coleman, Melissa DelPrete, and Michelle A M Miller, each offering distinct yet overlapping perspectives. To read more about this event and the contributing panelist click the link in our bio.
More installation shots of It Takes YEARS To Grow a Pineapple. Stop by to experience it in all its tranquility and grab a zine which Erica made especially for the exhibition. We are open Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm and of course available by appointment as well. Dm or 📧 [email protected]
Erica Prince’s South Florida debut follows years of profound caretaking and teaching that shaped her life after relocating from New York to West Palm Beach in 2019.
Created in fragments of time while caring for her young daughter, aging parents, and teenage students, these works arise from the tension between creative urgency and lived responsibility. The presentation reflects the years of care, cultivation, and generational effort required for even a single pineapple to ripen—standing as a tribute to slow growth and sustained attention, a counterpoint to the culture of immediacy and its demand for constant output.
Memento mori as comfort and confrontation, 2025 Watercolor, monoprint, flowers, block print, gouache on paper 30” x 22”
Join us for an opening reception this Thursday March 26th from 6–8 PM
It takes YEARS to Grow a Pineapple marks a pivotal synthesis of Erica Prince’s sculptural and two-dimensional practices. Exploring themes of care, time, and regeneration, the work evolves from her Containers Series, vessels inspired by Dutch tulipieres and retro‑futurist architecture. Through arrangements that blur the line between object and offering, Prince invites us to reflect on the eternal rhythm of bloom, decay, and renewal.
View more featured works, link in bio.
Alien, 2024
Glazed Stoneware
15”h x 12”d x 12”w
Two weeks left to view Vincent Stracquadanio | Shut Your Eyes and Burst into Flames !!!
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We are going to soak up the time we have left with these. Come through, Wednesday- Saturday 10am-3pm 🌋
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Motion Carried Time and Tide, 2026
24″x24″ oil on wood
mtn space is honored to present, It Takes YEARS to Grow a Pineapple, Erica Prince’s first major solo exhibition in South Florida.
March 26 - May 9
Opening Reception: March 26, 6-8pm
The exhibition features new mixed-media prints and drawings alongside hand-built ceramic sculptures.
Playful, floral, and unapologetically feminine, the exhibition unfolds as a meditation on nature and mono no aware—the tender awareness of impermanence. Marking a pivotal synthesis of Prince’s sculptural and two-dimensional practices, it explores care, time, and regeneration, where floral arrangements become both gesture and metaphor, embodying cycles of bloom, decay, and renewal.
Prince’s South Florida debut follows years of profound caretaking and teaching that shaped her life after relocating from New York to West Palm Beach in 2019, just before the pandemic. Created in fragments of time while caring for her young daughter, aging parents, and teenage students, these works emerge from the tension between creative urgency and lived responsibility. She incorporates her daughter’s and mother’s spontaneous mark-making into her compositions, collapsing the boundaries between art making and caretaking. At a cultural moment newly attuned to invisible labor and burnout, Prince’s work transforms caregiving into both an artistic and political stance, affirming patience and continuity as radical acts.
A closing reception on Mother’s Day weekend will feature a panel discussion on the intersection of artmaking and caretaking, moderated by the artist.
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When I made this/you, I had no idea what it/you could be, 2022- 2025
Watercolor, monoprint, flowers, block print, gouache on paper 22″ x 30″
Shut Your Eyes and Burst into Flames is be on view through March 21st. We are open Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm, appointments are available outside of biz hours. Come through! 🔥
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Vincent Stracquadanio, Torn Curtain is Bringing On The Trance, 2025 and Torn Curtain is Giving Me The Glance 2025 both 16”x12” Oil on wood
