Summer Workshop in Documentary Arts for Young Mexicanas
Workshop leader: Patricia Martín
Where: Mano a Mano Office, 64 Fulton Street Suite 403, Manhattan
When: July and August, Monday through Thursday from 10am – 4pm
If you are originally from Mexico, creative and like photography, we invite you to participate in this workshop. You’ll share how you live your identity in a direct way, through drawings, photography and texts.
In order to participate you only need the interest and ablility to talk, write and take photographs of what Mexicanidad in NYC means to you.
This workshop seeks to open a space for expression, using the language of art to develop creativity among program participants and give them new ways to see themselves and their surroundings.
Patricia Martín is a Mexican visual artist. She has studied photography in Mexico, France, and Spain; her work consists of inviting people to participate in artistic creativity as a means to reflect and overcome.
Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders is a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture in the United States and promoting the understanding of Mexican traditions among immigrants, artists, educators and the general public.
Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders / Cultura Mexicana Sin Fronteras 64 Fulton Street, Suite 403 - New York, NY 10038-2732 t. 212 587-3070 - f. 212 587-3071 info@manoamano.us - www.manoamano.us
The Smithtown Township Arts Council is now accepting entries for Arte Latino, an exhibition in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month
Deadline for entries: July 20, 2009
Arte Latino
August 22 - September 23, 2009
Opening Reception: August 22 from 4:30 - 6:30 PM
The exhibition seeks to explore the unique cultural and artistic narratives that define being Latino in America.
Artists may submit work in any media that expresses the experience of being Latino in the United States or that communicates the history of their journeys or their culture that connects them with their Latin heritage.
The entry form may be downloaded at www.stacarts.org/exhibits. Please be advised that there is an entry fee.
Mills Pond House Gallery
660 Route 25A
St. James, NY 11780
631-862-6575
www.stacarts.org
El Ojo de tu Vecino
July 2 - September 5, 2009
Opening July 2 at 6 PM
Rafael DiazCasas, curator
Artists:
Yolanda del Amo
Alex Morel
Jaime Permuth
Dulce Pinzón
Adriana López SanFeliu
Monica Ruzansky
Patricia Valancia
Galería Amster Yard
Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49 Street
New York City
The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art present:
Conversations with Contemporary Artists | Panel Discussions & Symposia
Teresa Margolles
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Join leading contemporary artists as they discuss their work, the creative process, and issues in contemporary art.
Teresa Margolles, one of the foremost artists working in Mexico today, is representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale. In this program, presented in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Margolles discusses how she explores death, and the relics and rituals that surround it, with her installations, objects, and other media. The evening is moderated by Pablo Helguera, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art.
Tickets ($10; members, corporate members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk.
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Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
Grace Exhibition Space presents:
Rocío Boliver: La Congelada de Uva
PERFORMANCE ART by ROCIO BOLIVER
"LA CONGELADA DE UVA"
Friday, July 10, 2009 from 7 - 11 PM
Free admission
Performing artist Rocío Boliver, better known as La congelada de uva (The grape ice pop) will perform at the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn.
"Doing performances is the only way I can get my own back on life, which has me by the balls.
It’s my way of giving it the finger and mocking it; of losing my fragility and believing I can go beyond death. Taking courage, transgressing and not being afraid of anything, destroying the boundaries that hold me back.
How far can you go when you’re offered a space of complete freedom, how much are you prepared to go out on a limb? ‘Cos you’re on your own here.
Through Action Art, those outside see how you lay yourself bare, how you stumble, slip and slide, how you contagiously segregate adrenaline, fear, arousal, and your palpitations boil over into your audacity against a world that charges a high price for daring to be.
But the art of performance protects me, it’s my ally and punishes the meddling of censorship and reprimand or attempted castration by turning them all into part of the show.
If anyone dares to indulge in such actions during a performance, they’ll be devoured and end up being part of the furniture, thus enriching the transgression.
Performance swallows everything; it’s voracious, precise, skilful, categorical in the struggle against idiocy.
On Congelada de Uva’s constant references to sex:
If sex were accepted without further ado, I’d latch on other subjects, the forbidden ones, the ones that freak us out: hence the customary reference to sex, because I know it’s the big Achilles’ heel, a way of hitting the target, of turning into a surefire Ninja who flicks deadly poisoned stars from her sleeve to sink them into the most vulnerable parts.
What would you rather not talk about, for the Congelada to shout about it?
What are you all ashamed of, for the Congelada to show it?
What are you afraid of, for the Congelada to bring it out in the open?
What shouldn’t be done, for the Congelada to do it?
Those are the starting points of my Action Art."
www.congeladadeuva.com
Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
(between Ellery and Park Streets)
J/M/Z train to Flushing Ave.
(646) 578-3402
www.gracespace.multiply.com
With the collaboration of the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexico Tourism Board
Local Project presents:
Clothing, Naming & Performance
Heriberto Garcia Martinez
Photographic Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11 from 6 - 9 PM
Through July 18
Clothing, naming & performance portraits two big subjects: on the one hand the beauty and the feminine aesthetic ideals and, by the another side, the transexuality and the transvestite, is to say, analyze how these people perform material and symbolically a true way to understand the femeninity and the beauty.
The clothing is an element that inevitably stand out when speaking of the transvestite figure, not only because to adjust the transvestite ritual, which consists in a ritual of clothing, naming & performance, because the clothing besides highlights the same act of the costume, appearance of the transvestite constitution.
The transvestite arises, like metaphor of the hybrid generic and thoughtful. His overacting masks it but to the same time puts to the nude his intention predominantly transgressing and burlesque, of some bourgeois model that defines the feminine like the discretion, the intimism, the measurement. Of this way, understand to the transvestite like provoke, irreverent, appealing,seduce, transgress.
Local Project
45-10 Davis Street
Long Island City, New York 11101
http://www.localproject.org/
With the collaboration of the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexico Tourism Board
Creativetime presents:
PLOT09: This World & Nearer Ones
Opens June 27, 2009 through Summer 2009
Governor's Island
Open to the public
Fridays: 11-4 pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 12-6 pm
ABOUT THE PROJECT
PLOT is a new public art quadrennial, produced and presented by Creative Time. This World & Nearer Ones is the first edition of PLOT, and will be held this summer on Governors Island. 19 artworks by international contemporary artists will be presented. The exhibition is free and open to the public Friday-Sunday.
Edgar Arceneaux
AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Adam Chodzko
Tue Greenfort
Jill Magid
Teresa Margolles*
Anthony McCall
Nils Norman
Susan Philipsz
Patti Smith and Jesse Smith
Tercerunquinto*
Tris Vonna-Michell
Mark Wallinger
Klaus Weber
Lawrence Weiner
Judi Werthein
Guido van der Werve
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Curated by Mark Beasley
CURATORIAL STATEMENT | VISITOR INFORMATION
* The participation of Teresa Margolles and Tercerunquinto is made possible thanks to the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Mexico Tourism Board
Mexican Workshop Artiflex presents:
Those Varnishing Days
July 7 -25, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 9 from 5 - 8 PM
Artists:
Alicia Amador
Sergio Balderas
Alejandra Barrera
Marta Hernández
Rebeca Martínez
Oscar Ojeda
www.artifexmexico.blogspot.com
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25 Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Hours: Tue-Sat, 11-6
www.bluemountaingallery.org
As Long as it Lasts
Curated by Tom Eccles
July 1 - August 28, 2009
Mexican participating artist: GABRIEL OROZCO
Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) is a Mexican artist, called "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too." He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984. He then continued his education in Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes between 1986 and 1987. A constant world traveler since 1991, Orozco and wife Maria Gutierrez, along with their son Simón, divide their time between Paris, New York and Mexico City. Orozco is considered "the leading conceptual and installational artist of his generation." Orozco's exploration of the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, allows the audience's imagination to explore the creative associations between oft-ignored objects in today's world. His work permits a rarely allowed interaction between the artwork and the audience.
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
www.mariangoodman.com
EXHIBIT BY ARTISTS
ANDREA ARROYO & FELIPE GALINDO
June 18- July 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 18th, 6-8pm
La Galeria, Boricua College
3755 Broadway (156th street)
New York NY 10032
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm, Sat. by appointment.
Free and open to the public.
By Subway: Train #1 to 157th Street.
La Galeria at Boricua College is pleased to present an art exhibition by artists Andrea Arroyo & Felipe Galindo, from June 18- July 3, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 18th, 6-8pm
Ms. Arroyo presents “Vida y Tierra”, a series of works that celebrate femininity while examining notions of race, gender and identity. She is known for creating lyrical and gracefully feminine images. Her exhibition record includes twenty-five individual shows. Her artwork is in numerous private and public collections including The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution and The New York Public Library. Her awards include Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts, Puffin Foundation Award, Harlem Arts Alliance Award, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award, Official Artist of the 7th Latin Grammys, New York City Citation Award for Achievement in Art, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and Outstanding Latina of the Year. Her artwork has been published and reviewed extensively.
Mr Galindo presents “All the World in Manhattan”, a series of humorous works on paper inspired by the convergence of different cultures in New York. The New York-based cartoonist, illustrator and animator has exhibited his work extensively, and has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsday, Mad and many other publications worldwide. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Awards include recognitions from the New York Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the United Nations Correspondents Association.
For more information about the artists please visit www.andreaarroyo.com & www.felipegalindo.com
Yeshiva University Museum Spring Exhibitions presents:
JOSEPH, THE BULL
AND THE ROSE
ANETTE PIER
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 from 6 - 8 PM
February 26 – August 30, 2009
Mexican artist Anette Pier takes the theme of the bull (shor) and the bull fight (fiesta brava) and relates it to the multi-faceted biblical figure of Joseph in her exhibition “Joseph, the Bull and the Rose.”
Working from within her Jewish-Mexican tradition, Pier builds upon the image of the bull as a metaphor for Joseph’s magnetism, charisma, and acquired identity. The artist visually demonstrates how bullfighting is a dance and power play, with the matador paralleling Joseph’s relationship with his brothers. The metaphor serves as a thread through this collection of 20 mixed-media paintings.
The allegorical references in Pier’s exhibition derive from Midrashim—later interpretations and commentaries on the biblical text through later sources. By comparing the biblical Joseph with the more recent traditions of the bullfight, the artist highlights tensions embedded in the original text, while also commenting on ways biblical tradition has been reinterpreted and adapted by later, especially Mexican, culture.
Pier studied painting and philosophy and received a medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico. She has shown solo and collective exhibits in both Mexico and the United States.
Yeshiva University Museum
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY 10011
www.yu.edu
With the support of The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Mexico Tourism Board
• Bronx Blue Bedroom Project
February - December 2009
Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP) is a new artist-run project located in the bedroom of the Artist Blanka Amezkua in Mott Haven, South Bronx.
Bronx Blue Bedroom 2009 Artists:
· Fanny Allié
February 7 - February 28
· damali abrams
March 7 - March 28
· Michelle Frick
April 4 - April 27
· Mark Lawrence Stafford
May 2 - May 29
· Ronny Quevedo
September 5 - September 28
· Hector Canonge
October 3 - October 30
· Miranda Small
November 7 - November 30
· Laura Napier
December 5 - December 28
BBBP's hours of operation will be Thursdays and Fridays from 12-5pm, first Wednesday of the month from 5-9pm. Weekends by appointment only.
309 Alexander Avenue
Bronx, NY 10454
www.bronxbbp.com
The Bronx Blue Bedroom Project events are made possible with public funds from The Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Development Fund Regrants Program, Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion, The Bronx Delegation of the City Council, Bx 1 Indie Arts Program and with the generous support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
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