You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Untitled (Place marked with an impulse; purple speckles, extends, and roams; a node linked to other planes of there)
Related : The purple enrolled me…
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Another End, Bin Ramke
of days, of nights, of neither.
Adler Guerrier (2021), Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in.
Spinello Projects presents I Love You, Man, the debut solo gallery exhibition by Venezuelan-born artist Bernadette Despujols. The exhibition features a suite of oil paintings depicting men who are close to the artist, on view at the Gesamtkunstwerk Building located at 2930 NW 7th Avenue. A special locals-only preview reception will take place Saturday, November 20, 6-10pm. Miami Art Week vernissage will take place Tuesday, November 30, 11am-4pm. Exhibition through January 15, 2022. Free and open to the public.
In I Love You, Man Bernadette Despujols paints the closest men in her circle. The paintings are a departure from her usual depictions of women in paintings. In previous paintings, Despujols positioned herself as the subject of her paintings although they were portraits of anonymous unconscious women sourced from pornography made by men. Holding the belief that to be a woman makes other people uncomfortable and ultimately poses a threat to men she turns her gaze and paints the cishet men in her life: friends, lovers, family. Despujols uses the portraiture of her male subjects to experience her relationships with deeper intimacy. Objectification and intersubjectivity (the relation or intersection between people’s cognitive perspectives) ebbs and flows between the painter and the painted. She objectifies the men in the paintings at times, focusing solely on one body part or their bare skin and bodies, but the men pose for the pictures with awareness and dignity. Nothing is stolen from them; Despujols may want to position these men ironically as muses but the truth is she defeats the irony of it with pure affinity and care towards the people she paints, leaving the men to decide what they want to wear and show of themselves. In the act of portraiture she experiences the vulnerability of these men through their quiet shyness or awkwardness with themselves, ways that would otherwise challenge the presumed status quo of manhood: tough, aggressive, aloof, qualities of patriarchy that, to Despujols, imprison both men and women in a cycle of violence. The paintings are formally infused with skewed perspectives, foreground and background foibles, and blank, paintless spaces furthering the playfulness she captures by being around the men she loves.
Available works click here
Viewpoints: Expressions of an artist community
November 13, 2021 through March 27, 2022.
In celebration of its 35th anniversary season, Bakehouse presents Viewpoints: Expressions of an artist community, a group exhibition co-curated by visual artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and Bakehouse Curatorial + Public Programs Manager, Laura Novoa. The exhibition showcases twenty-five Bakehouse artists working predominantly in two-dimensional media, including painting, drawing, print-making, and photography. Duval-Carrié and Novoa draw on recent work to examine the creative output of a community and the way its constituent artists have navigated the changes and challenges of the last year and a half.
Recognizing the organization’s long tradition of group exhibitions and considering its current and future role as a local hub for art and art-making, Viewpoints hints at the array of individual styles and affinities coexisting in a shared space and how this diversity has come to define the spirit of the artists working, producing, and communing within Bakehouse.
Participating artists include Jason Aponte, Maria Theresa Barbist, Thomas Bils, Lujan Candria, Alain Castoriano, Rose Marie Cromwell, Gabriela Gamboa, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Adler Guerrier, Gonzalo Hernandez, Monique Lazard, Rhea Leonard, Amanda Linares, Philip Lique, Nicole Maynard-Sahar, Patricia Monclus, Najja Moon, Mateo Nava, William Osorio, Christina Pettersson, Jennifer Printz, Sandra Ramos, Nicole Salcedo, Tonya Vegas, and Almaz Wilson.
INSIDE/OUT at the Black Box Studio Rutgers University–Camden
Artists hold a dialogue on the provocative and evocative relationship between art and trauma at the Black Box at Rutgers Camden.
Join renowned contemporary artists Caleb Weintraub, Adler Guerrier, Judith Schechter, and Sergio Garcia, for this live online and on-site panel discussion and Q&A. This conversation will be moderated by artist Margery Amdur and curator Jorge Luis Gutierrez.
Collectively, the moderators and the panelists come from distinct and notable practices. INSIDE/OUT, an emergent and inclusive platform, aims to discuss the theme by contextualizing and demystifying contemporary artistic practices.
November 3, 2021, 6pm
Black Box Studio
Rutgers University–Camden
College of Arts and Sciences
314 Linden Street, Camden
New Jersey, 08102
Via: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98248108363?pwd=STEwOThoQW9zNm45dWVWbjZacjEvdz09
The South is the theme of A.i.A.’s November/December issue. I am featured in STAYING SOUTH, article by Logan Lockner and I have contributed to PORTFOLIO, a print inserted in the physical magazine.
This issue also has a review of Michael Richards, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida, by Ade Omotosho.
in progress.
Untitled (Forms wrested into garden syntax–uncertain and adulterated, strange and unauthorized) ii
This major exhibition, 29 January – 25 April 2010 at Tate Liverpool, (also traveled to Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, España, July – October 2010) inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and intellectuals have played a central role in the formation of Modernism from the early twentieth century to today.
I made a post before. But I have recently found the dvd of installation images, dating April 2010.
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Images, courtesy of Tate Liverpool.