When Jacqueline Goldstein saw a luminous resin sculpture dangling from the ceiling of artist Mira Lehr’s studio, she envisioned masses of sculptures, suspended like flora in an aerial garden, to showcase the 80 stained-glass windows of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU.
As the curator of the museum – which is housed in a former synagogue in Miami Beach, Fla. – she convinced Lehr to rapidly create more than 180 sculptures to headline Miami’s Art Basel festival – an international art fair that’s staged in three cities around the world – with the enchanting exhibit, Mira Lehr: A Walk in the Garden.