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HECTOR DIONICIO MENDOZA: BUSCANDO FUTURO
As an artist, curator, and educator based in the agricultural community of the Salinas Valley in California, Dionicio Mendoza (b.1969, Uruapan, Michoacan, MX) embraces Latinx/e futurism while exploring themes of migration and the environment, spirituality, as well as the geographies of place, memory, identity, and the visualization of immigrant stories that expand upon a new latinidad.
SANDRA MONTERROSO: THE HEALING PARADOX
Monterroso, an artist with Maya Q’eqchi’ roots, focuses her attention this time on more modest materials. Leftover fabrics from a local rug factory and organic cotton and linen embellished with embroidery and neon lights effectively become a compelling locus where discussions about healing wounds within a complex postcolonial heritage occur.
POOR PEOPLE’S ART: A (SHORT) VISUAL HISTORY OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead “The Poor People’s Campaign”, a multicultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. This exhibition represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”
MARIANA PARISCA: HER DEEDS
This exhibition is a prayer for the powers misnamed as weakness
to forget roman romance
to remember how to value
to be able to stay in the land
to remember to love them
to be with them in beautiful bodies
HELLEN ASCOLI: CIEN TIERRAS
“Each weave is intimately related to the body it harnesses,” the artist writes. “Its warp is the width of my hips, its length mirrors my height, its designs are spaced by the threads I can hold in my hand… It carries memory through touch, a proximity sense. I choose to use materials that reveal vestiges of bodies that were once there.”
MURIEL HASBUN. RECORD: CULTURAL PULSES
Muriel Hasbun reframes the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 1990s using personal and historical archives. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería El Laberinto -an epicenter of cultural activity in El Salvador during its civil war, founded by her late mother Janine Janowski- along with her own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador.
PEDRO REYES AND OTHER ARTISTS JOIN CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS
Times Square Arts, For Freedoms and Poster House just launched a multi-city campaign, which is on view on digital displays throughout all five boroughs of New York City and on JCDecaux screens in New York, Boston and Chicago. Artworks by major contemporary artists Alixa Garcia, Carrie Mae Weems, Christine Sun Kim, Christine Wong Yap, Duke Riley, Jenny Holzer, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, G.O.N.G. with Mel Chin, Nekisha Durrett, Paula Crown, Pedro Reyes, and Xaviera Simmons acknowledge the continued service of essential workers during the pandemic.
Alejandro Otero:rhythm in Line And Space
Organized in partnership with the Otero Pardo Foundation of Caracas, Venezuela, the exhibition «Alejandro Otero: Rhythm in Line and Space» at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino highlights works from his «Cafeteras» (Coffeepots), «Tablones» (Planks), and «Coloritmos» (Colorhythms) series, among others, offering a glimpse into the dynamic practice of this master artist (Venezuela, 1921-1990). Although this exhibition cannot show any of these structures on a public scale, except in images, it does exhibit the artist’s preparatory process that gave rise to them. Following a rigorous methodology, Otero, when producing paintings or sculptural works, always began with drawings, sketches or models, before making the final work a reality.
PRIMERA MUESTRA INSTITUCIONAL DE ROBERTO OBREGÓN EN EEUU
Curada por Jesús Fuenmayor y Kaira M. Cabañas, se trata de la primera exposición individual de Roberto Obregón en una institución de arte en los Estados Unidos. Nacido en 1946 en Barranquilla (Colombia) y establecido desde 1952 en Venezuela, donde murió en 2003, Obregón es una figura clave del conceptualismo global. La exposición, en University Gallery (Gainesville, Florida), presenta más de trescientas obras del extenso archivo del artista que ahora forma parte de la Colección Eseverri en Caracas. Se incluyen múltiples dibujos, pinturas, bocetos, collages, fotografías, fotocopias manipuladas y otros objetos.
Rodrigo Valenzuela:past | Present
“Past | Present”, Rodrigo Valenzuela’s third solo exhibition at Upfor, is comprised of two parts: in September, a selection of prior work from major series in photography, video and painting; and in October, the debut of a new body of monochromatic photographs. Valenzuela’s works often involve narratives around immigration and the working class. Rooted in contradictory traditions of documentary and fiction, his staged scenes manipulate codes of representation to affect viewers’ perception of logic and reality.