Group Exhibition at elmuseo@SVA
January 18, 2016
A very nice way to start the new year! I have this new piece, “Single Drawn Line” in a group exhibition at the SVA gallery curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado.
Hope to see you there!
| elmuseo@SVA |
An exhibition of work by latino MFA Fine Arts alumni.
Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado of El Museo del Barrio
January 16 – February 20, 2016
Reception: Thursday, January 21 6:00 – 8:00pm
SVA Chelsea Gallery,
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York, NY. 10001
With work by Manuel Acevedo and MFA Fine Arts alumni Soledad Arias (2002), Vladimir Cybil Charlier (1993), Guido Garaycochea (2015), Alejandro Guzman (2009), Erik Guzman (2003), Elisabeth Jobim (1992),Elan Jurado (2012), Cynthia Rojas (2003), Diana Santiago (2008), K.C. Tidemand (2015), Denise Treizman(2013) and Juana Valdes (1993).
elmuseo@SVA represents a coming together of two New York institutions: El Museo del Barrio and the School of Visual Arts. Founded by artist Raphael Montanez Ortiz and local activists, parents and teachers in East Harlem, El Museo del Barrio’s original mission was to support the art and culture of Puerto Rico. By the early 1970s that mission expanded to include all of Latin America and Latino communities in the Unites States. The work on view in the exhibition explores the aesthetic and thematic affinities of these different but like-minded communities. In the words of curator Aranda-Alvarado: “At various stages of their careers, the artists in the show act as contemporary anthropologists gathering objects or inspiration from the urban landscape, engaging with issues around migration and the body, exploring space and architecture, tradition and craft.”
Reception co-sponsored by El Museo del Barrio, and will include a raffle of exhibition catalogs provided by the museum and SVA Galleries.
There will be a panel discussion in the gallery with curator Rocio Aranda-Avaradoand artists Manuel Acevedo, K.C. Tidemand, Denise Treizman and Alejandro Guzman on Tuesday, February 16 from 6-7:30pm.