Name: Off the Wall: Mark Delmont
Start: 2026-03-05T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Arts Garage

Off the Wall: From Canvas to Conversation is a seasonal artist talk series that brings the community face-to-face with visual storytellers and cultural voices shaping our world. While many featured speakers are drawn from current exhibitions in the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery and Black Box Gallery, the series also welcomes guest artists, curators, and thought leaders whose practices align with exhibition themes.
Each event transforms the gallery into a space for open dialogue—connecting art, ideas, and people through storytelling. The series underscores Arts Garage’s commitment to celebrating identity, creativity, and cultural dialogue, offering visitors a chance to “take the conversation off the wall” and into their daily lives.
ARTIST BIO:
Delmont is a multidisciplinary artist from Miami (more specifically Carol City). He prioritizes making art about the catacombs that are “the city” and it’s dwellers, the people cameras do not follow, the people with vast lives who need their stories told and are unaware of it.
As Delmont's artistic journey progressed, he became affected not only by his heroes' songs and storytelling, but also by the mechanical world. His father, a talented contractor and fabricator, exposed him to a world of hydraulics, mechanics, and tools, fostering in him a fascination with machinery, building structures and always finding a way to make it work. At the age of 25, Delmont boldly embraced self-taught artistry, creating dramatic portraiture and expansive black iconography wrapped in permeable surroundings using paints, construction materials, and fabrics on wooden frames, recalling his blue-collar upbringing.
Delmont took consolation in the worlds of music and cinema from a young age, with luminaries such as Outkast, Curtis Mayfield, and Kendrick Lamar to name a few serving as a sonic background for his path of self-discovery. Films like "Equilibrium," "Boyz n the Hood," and "Memento" provided as entry points into the study of recovering scraps of where you come from, blackness, and masculinity. These artistic forms were his sanctuaries, allowing him to be free of society standards and celebrating his distinct individuality.
Delmont's art celebrates the strength of the black experience, which is currently experiencing a revival that reflects a modern-day renaissance. Delmont feels like house parties resemble masquerades, DJ speakers become orchestral symphonies of kings, and rolling dice represent the rolling heads within the Colosseum. The audience cheers as we argue domino tables. We are as captivated by entertainment as we were then and are now, drowning in vices. Delmont's paintings serve as a reminder that we exist, have always existed, and that our experiences deserve to be shared-in full color.