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Jan 30
Eduardo Sarmiento – NYC
February 1 – March 2, 2013
The Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd Street New York, NYEduardo Sarmiento’s drawing for Mezcal El Cortijo has been selected as part of the annual exhibition that will be held at the Museum of American Illustration from February 1st through March 2nd, 2013. The exhibit features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide, selected by a prestigious jury of professionals.
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Oct 26
Luis Mallo – Praxis NY
November 8 – December 29, 2012
Praxis International
Chelsea
541 W 25th Street
New York, NY
Inside the work of Ignacio Iturria, Hisae Ikenage, & Luis Mallo.
Opening Brunch: November 17, 2012 10 am to 1 PM.
link: Praxis
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Oct 10
Abelardo Morrell exhibits in NY
October 4 – December 22, 2012
Bonni Benrubi41 East 57th Street
New York, NY
Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present Rock Paper Scissors, new work by Abelardo Morell. The exhibition will further expand on Morell’s innovative “Tent-Camera Obscura” process where visual boundaries are pushed with the use of a lightproof tent and periscope that projects a view of the nearby landscape directly onto the ground. The resulting photographs play on the tropes of impressionistic painting as the refracted light is exposed on the grass and sand below. The artist began using this process in 2010 and in recent months, since receiving a grant from National Geographic, has incorporated the Grand Canyon and other rocky terrains from the American West into this body of work.
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Oct 8
Armando Mariño The Waste Land
October 11 – November 5, 2012
532 Gallery 532 West 25th Street New York, NYThis solo show features new oil on canvas paintings and works on paper. The title of the show refers immediately to the T.S Eliot poem, but the paintings that Marino shows are far from an illustration of it. In these paintings the artist recognizes the poem as a background to his work. “It helped me put together all the paintings,” he said. “The style of the poem overall is marked by hundreds of allusions and quotations from other texts, like my paintings.”
In Spanish
Link >>Cuba Encuentro
Sep 19
Skyline Adrift
September 16, 2012 – May, 2013
Omi International Arts Center Ghent, New YorkArchitecture Omi, under the direction of Peter Franck, has the mission of facilitating projects that look at the intersection of architecture, art and landscape.
One of their projects currently underway is Skyline Adrift: Cuban Art and Architecture.
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Jun 5
Gladys Triana – Arte al Dia
It was during the years 2001-2002 that Gladys Triana made her first photo series.By that time, she had already had a long and successful four-decade career in painting and related arts, such as drawing.
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Apr 6
Christies Latin American Sale – May 2012
Mark your calendars!!
We will update this blog as information becomes available. We post information on Cuban Artists that reside and work outside the island.
AUCTION TIMES
| May 22 | 6:30pm |
| May 23 | 10am & 2pm |
VIEWING TIMES
| Rockefeller Center | |
|---|---|
| May 19 | 10am – 5pm |
| May 20 | 1pm – 5pm |
| May 21 | 10am – 5pm |
| May 22 | 10am – 12pm |
Feb 22
Clara Morera Video
Fish-o-fish
Clara Morera is a Cuban -American artist that lives and works in New York City.
Her extremely poetic artworks evolved from her rich Cuban roots and her views of a New York full of popular art. This painting named ” Fish-O-Fish” comes from her mixed environment and is part of the series ” Walls”, where she is inspired from the Latino Quarter in the East Village.
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Jan 31
Emilio Sanchez – The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Emilio Sanchez exhibit URBAN ARCHIVES at the Bronx Museum of the Arts was extended until June 17, 2012
This exhibition presents a group of works by Emilio Sanchez from The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, together with related archival material and a special interpretive project by Bronx-based artist Laura Napier. All the works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With a colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas and auto shops of the Bronx in an almost idyllic style that makes a stark contrast with preconceived views of the borough.
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Nov 12
Cristina Lei Rodriguez: Through Excess and Ruin at Team Gallery, SoHo, NY
November 3rd – December 23rd 2011
team (gallery, inc.)
47 Wooster Street ny ny 10013Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s sculptural forms are abstract objects that echo the coupled narratives of decadence and ruin. Although the natural processes of growth and decay have been the operative thematic in all of her work, lately the artist has veered away from nature and towards cultural constructions of uncertainty and instability. In her latest pieces, the materials are shaped with critical attention to the extensive gluttony and unapologetic glamour that accompany contemporary capitalism: the consolidated accumulations of wealth, the global economic recession, the persistent fluctuation of value, and the threats of total systemic collapse.
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Nov 12
Cuban American Art Exhibition
NOVEMBER 17 – 18, 2011
ROGUE SPACE / WEST CHELSEA BUILDING
508 W 26th Street, #9E/F
New York. NY. 10001.
Opening: Thursday November 17 (6 PM – 8 PM)
Ana Maria Nardo, César Alfonso, Francisco Sánchez, Jesús Rivera
Raúl Villarreal, and Walter Rodríguez
The artists selected for this exhibition are all Cuban-born but work in different parts of the American continent. Some were trained in the famed San Alejandro’s Academy in Havana, while others pursued their artistic endeavors first in the United States. Although some of the selected works still carry tangible nostalgic tension, most deviate from conventional political parameters and blend into a worldly, or even otherworldly visual narrative that is enchanting, serene, powerful, agitating, introspective and/or playful. The works chosen for this exhibition are meant to please and provoke transculturally and without discrimination.
Nov 10
Tomas Esson- IMPERIALISMO 2011
Ramis Barquet
532 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 tel 212.675.3421 fax 212.675.3432
Nov. 10 – Dec. 17, 2011
Reception: Thursday, November 10, from 6 –8 PM
Ramis Barquet Gallery is pleased to present IMPERIALISMO 2011, our first exhibition devoted to the flags of Tomás Esson. This will be the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.
Tomás Esson is one of the most important and influential contemporary Cuban painters. A leading figure in the storied 80s Generation, his work forms part of a Cuban pictorial tradition with links to artists including Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez and René Portocarrero. Yet over the last 25 years, trawling the great reservoir of libido, Esson has in his vast body of work developed a unique, highly charged and often controversial visual language that extends beyond his origins and is uniquely his own.
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Nov 6
Wifredo Lam’s BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM (AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT) in Latin American Art Auction at Sotheby’s, New York
New York, 16 November, 2011 7:00pm
SOTHEBY’S
1334 York Avenue New York 10021 USALOT 12
WIFREDO LAM
(1902-1982)
BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM (AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT)
signed and dated 1959 lower right; also signed, titled, and dated 1959 on the reverse
oil on burlap
29 1/2 by 59 1/4 in.
74.9 by 150.5 cm
ESTIMATE
600,000 – 800,000 USD
“There could be no doubt that Au Commencement de la Nuit (Bonjour Monsieur Lam) is also a self-portrait. The painting is carefully crafted to reveal in a flash the animal and anthropological forms in the darkness of the night. In Lam’s painting, a beast is depicted walking across the composition. It seems like it has stopped and, like in Courbet, it is turning its bearded head towards the spectator a similar invitation to make us recognize him.While Bonjour Monsieur Courbet is an easier painting to understand because the figures appear in broad day light, Bonjour Monsieur Lam is somehow more difficult to decipher. However, an attentive look at the hybrid creature reveals the fantastic complexity of how Wifredo Lam pictures himself . The first recognizable features are the hoofs of a horse and its elongated head, eyes and mouth. Following the neck on the diagonal, we discover that it is a winged horse. This mythical animal is also a woman : her breasts show distinctly under the wing and a second leg. Further to the right, a geometric second head with two prominent horns, eyes wide open and staring up towards his two arms and hands that close the composition on the right side with a protective gesture. A mysterious long shape with ribs or spines crosses the painting in parallel of the creature’s body : its presence echoes and accentuates the angular and fleshless qualities of the creature’s essential embodiment.”
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Oct 11
Agustin Fernandez: New Voices Interpret an Artistic Voyage from Cuba to Paris to New York
Pinta – New York
November 11, 2011
Agustin Fernandez (1928-2006) is recognized as one of the outstanding Cuban artists of his generation. This symposium aims to provide analytical perspectives on the work of this artist and its significance. Each panelist will provide analyses and interpretations of the unique and discerning artistic vision that Fernandez cultivated by bridging his Cuban inheritance and the cosmopolitan influences gleaned from many decades spent abroad. They will also present varying vantage points for appreciating the historical and contemporary significance of Fernandez’s oeuvre with the larger aim of placing Fernandez’s work in dialogue with an international cohort of artists working along similar lines. Finally Professor Edward J. Sullivan, the panel discussant, will comment and extend on the analyses and views presented.
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Oct 2
Loredo’s he-ART en Tumiamiblog
Por Jesús Rosado
Jorge Moya, ese amigo entrañable, nos ha permitido acceder al material visual que CANY atesora del Padre Miguel Angel Loredo. Teníamos cierta premura reflexiva en torno a ese legado pues cuando falleció el apreciado sacerdote todos los obituarios se enfocaron en la faceta biográfica ligada a su actitud patria. Comprensible. Pero, era lamentable obviar la sensibilidad ya no del teólogo o del hombre apegado a un activismo cívico, sino la de una honda vocación que compartía la incertidumbre de Deleuze sobre si las ciencias del pensamiento habrían aportado algo a la pintura o si a la inversa cabía “la posibilidad de que la pintura tendría algo para aportar a la filosofía”.
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Oct 1
Hard Light: The Work of Emilio Sanchez
Read more >>Books and Books – Coral Gables
Wednesday, October 5 at 8 PMHard Light: The Work of Emilio Sanchez (Prestel Publishing, $45) byRafael Díazcasas, John Angeline and Rudi C. Bleys, edited by Ann Koll, is the much anticipated and beautifully compiled monograph, the first to bring to light the prolific career and life of this imaginative and spirited twentieth century Cuban American artist.
Sep 28
Thirteen paintings and works on paper by Emilio Sanchez at Frederico Sève Gallery
artdaily.org
NEW YORK, NY.- Frederico Sève Gallery presents Shaping Light, an exhibition of works by Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) featuring thirteen paintings and works on paper completed from the early to mid 1970’s. The Cuban-born American artist developed an early fascination with light and shadow on colored forms, and is celebrated for his architectural geometric abstractions, which are distinguished by their simplified forms.
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Sep 25
Teresita Fernández appointed to U.S. Commission on Fine Arts
September 16, 2011 (New York) — President Barack Obama has appointed Teresita Fernández, a MacArthur Award winning visual artist, to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a federal panel that advises the President, Congress and governmental agencies on national matters of design and aesthetics. Fernández lives and works in New York and is represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Members of the arts panel play a key role in shaping Washington’s architecture by approving the site and design of national memorials and museums; advise the U.S. Mint on the design of coins and medals; and administer the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program, which benefits non-profit cultural entities that provide arts programming in Washington. Seven commissioners appointed by the President serve four-year terms.
Past members have included architects, landscape architects and artists, including Daniel Chester French who sculpted the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., whose projects include the National Mall, Jefferson Memorial and the White House grounds.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery website
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Sep 21
Luis Gispert’s DECEPCIÓN: A New York Artist Takes the Long View of Customizer Culture
The New York Times
September 21, 2011, 6:00 am
By PHIL PATTON
“Decepción,” the title of Luis Gisbert’s show at the uptown Mary Boone Gallery, at 745 Fifth Avenue, translates from the Spanish not to its English cognate, but more literally to disillusionment or disappointment. The word applies to the effect of the huge photographs in the show, which depict fantasy landscapes seen through the windshields of luxury vehicles.
The photographs pair interiors of BMWs and Cadillacs strewn with designer logos with images of mountains and meadows, the dreamscapes to which plush S.U.V.’s promise to carry their charges.
Mr. Gispert, born in Jersey City in 1972, now lives in Brooklyn. He has explored his Cuban American background and borrowed totems of hip-hop culture in his past pieces: gold jewelry, boom boxes, big speakers, large chrome wheel rims. In a video piece called “Block Watching,” he depicts a cheerleader mouthing the sound of a car alarm.
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Sep 15
Mario Algaze- Throckmorton Fine Art
MARIO ALGAZE – FORTY YEARS
November 10th – January 7th, 2012
145 EAST 57th STREET, 3RD FLOOR
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022
TEL 212 223.1059 | FAX 212 223.1937
Opening reception:
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 6-8pm.
Book available:
Mario Algaze, Portfolio: $125.00
Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit highlighting four decades of work by the accomplished photographer, Mario Algaze. The exhibit will present 35 images included in the handsome catalogue of his work published in 2010, Mario Algaze: Portfolio. Algaze has worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including his native Cuba, and his photographs reveal his intimacy with the region and its peoples.
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Sep 15
Emilio Sánchez: SHAPING LIGHT, at Frederico Sève Gallery, NY
September 21 – January 28, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION
September 21, 2011, 6-8 pm
Frederico Sève Gallery
37 W 57th Street, 4th floor212 334 7813
New York, NY— Frederico Sève Gallery is pleased to present is pleased to present Shaping Light, an exhibition of works by Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) featuring thirteen paintings and works on paper completed from the early to mid 1970’s. The Cuban-born American artist developed an early fascination with light and shadow on colored forms, and is celebrated for his architectural geometric abstractions, which are distinguished by their simplified forms.
Shaping Light includes a series of works on paper that were influenced by his life in New York City, to where he proudly relocated in 1944 and remained until his death more than five decades later. While the 1960’s made way for a period of significant exploration in abstractionism in the artist’s life, the following ten years marked a time of architectural paintings and works that defines one of the highlights in Sanchez’s oeuvre.
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Sep 9
Félix González-Torres in group show SEPTEMBER 11 at MoMA P.S.1, NY
September 11, 2011–January 9, 2012
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.Long Island City, NY 11101
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse—particularly within the realm of contemporary art. Responding to these conditions, MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey brings together more than 70 works by 41 artists—many made prior to 9/11—to explore the attacks’ enduring and far-reaching resonance. Eschewing images of the event itself, as well as art made directly in response, the exhibition provides a subjective framework within which to reflect upon the attacks in New York and their aftermath, and explores the ways that they have altered how we see and experience the world in their wake. September 11 will open on the tenth anniversary of the attacks and occupy the entire second floor of the museum, with additional works located elsewhere in the building and in the surrounding neighborhood.
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Sep 8
Helping the Modern Get Over Itself
by Roberta Smith
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled changes in its galleries which include the addition of a painting by Cuban Grandmaster Amelia Pelaez.
The permanent collection of any great museum is in a state of constant, usually subtle flux. Works go up, are shifted about and later removed from view, making way for others…..
…..And then there’s the small, wonderfully dense Gallery 4, loosely devoted to still life with works from 1915 to the early 1950s. My favorite on either floor right now, this selection juxtaposes paintings by Matisse, Braque and Giorgio Morandi with surprises by, among others, the American outsider Forrest Bess, Bernard Buffet (French), Gertrude Green (American), Emilio Pettoruti (Argentine) and Amelia Peláez Del Casal (Cuban). The Del Casal, “Fishes,” was painted in 1943 under the spell of Picasso (and acquired the following year), but it definitely has a mind of its own.
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Aug 5
El Museo del Barrio Appoints Christie’s Specialist Margarita Aguilar as New Director
artdaily.com
NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio announced that it has appointed Margarita Aguilar to be its next director, beginning September 12, 2011. Aguilar, who served in the curatorial department at El Museo from 1998 to 2006, is currently Vice President and Senior Specialist in Latin American art at Christie’s. Through her work at El Museo and Christie’s, Aguilar has wide knowledge of historical and contemporary Latino and Latin American art and is a leading voice in the field. Aguilar was selected following an international search, and replaces Julian Zugazagoitia, who is now Director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Georgina M. Nichols, Director of Finance and Administration, has been serving as Interim Director of El Museo.
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Aug 3
Diango Hernández in group show at Alexander and Bonin, NY
Alexander and Bonin Gallery
132 Tenth AvenueNew York, NY 10011
Cuban artist, living in Düsseldorf, Diango Hernández is included in a group show Colors for a new home, Signs of Love and other paintings at Alexander and Bonin, NY, and also preparing his upcoming exhibit ‘If I send you this’ from September 6 to October 12, 2011 at this venue.
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Aug 1
Julio Larraz,Tomás Sánchez in Summer Group Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, NY
Jun 08 2011-Sep 14 2011
Marlborough Gallery
40 West 57th StreetNew York, NY 10019
Featuring works by Fernando Botero, Vincent Desiderio, Chakaia Booker, Chu Teh-Chun, Richard Estes, Red Grooms, Bill Jacklin, Julio Larraz, Jacques Lipchitz, Tom Otterness, Beverly Pepper, Manolo Valdes and others.
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Aug 1
URBAN ARCHIVES: EMILIO SANCHEZ IN THE BRONX
JUNE 26 – JANUARY 1, 2012
THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS
1040 GRAND CONCOURSE AT 165TH STREET BRONX, NEW YORK 10456This exhibition presents a group of works by Emilio Sanchez from The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, together with related archival material and a special interpretive project by Bronx-based artist Laura Napier. All the works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With a colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas and auto shops of the Bronx in an almost idyllic style that makes a stark contrast with preconceived views of the borough.
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Jul 22
Guerra de la Paz in group show at Praxis International, NY
July 28 – September 10, 2011
Praxis International, NY
541 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
tel 212 772 9478
Summer Hours Mon-Fri 10-6PM
This year’s summer show is filled with a variety of works of all different mediums. Intricate patterns, diverse textures and the use of color,transparency and glossy finishes make the work of these artists exquisite and amusing.
Intertwined fabrics are suspended in an apparent empty space, oil drippings and collaged paper, flowers, buttons and clay, characterize the physical structure of the work of David Antonio Cruz and Nina Surel. The Miami-based duo Guerra de la Paz also resorts to the use of fabrics.
Recycled clothing is the medium of choice to explore the manipulation of textiles that breathe new life to these rescued remains. The properties of fibers, yarn and dies in textile design, are translated to wood, resin, pencil, and stickers by Nancy Saleme. Similarly, Firelei Baez evokes popular traditions of the Caribbean in a delicate use of gouache, watercolor, and thin lines of ink on paper in beautifully painted patterns.
