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Everyday Travails

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The press release


everyday travails

Adler Guerrier
Everyday Travails
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
October 10- November 7, 2009
Reception October 10, 7-10 pm

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Everyday Travails, Adler Guerrier’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and his first in Miami in over four years. The artist’s creative impulse is both intellectual and organic and is shown by his love of paper and its natural evolution into artwork and by his contemplative photography of the everyday. The current exhibition includes drawings, sculpture, photography, and video encapsulating the ideas of constant interest to the artist: place and the everyday.

The works reveal a structured imprint of the everyday, in the exploration of the relationship of media to the psycho-geographical, social, and political nature of place. Adler Guerrier sets drawing, collage, sculpture, photo, video, and installation in dialogue. His inspired cultural hybrid between color and plane are anchored by fearless, site-specific subversions of place and time in regards to conceptions of race, class, and culture. Often calling upon the districts of Miami and his own backyard, Guerrier examines the contemporary flaneur in an impending post-demographic age.

Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the New World School of the Arts in Miami and has exhibited widely including The Whitney Biennial 2008, the Wolfsonian Miami Beach, and Miami Art Museum. The artist has recently exhibited in VideoStudio at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Pivot Points 3 at Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and is in the permanent collection of both institutions. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool; commissioned works for Locust Projects Miami and a monograph to be published by Name Publications. Guerrier’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, and Art in America, among numerous other publications.

About David Castillo Gallery

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5pm and by appointment

David Castillo Gallery
+1 305 573 8110 Telephone

2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
United States

Kathleen Hudspeth at BasFisherInvitational, June 13

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Bas Fisher Invitational will show Kathleen Hudspeth‘s You were always There with us.

Here is the press release.

June 13 – July 11, 2009

Opening reception: June 13, 7 – 10 PM

Closing reception: July 11, 7 – 10 PM

BFI is pleased to present the first solo show of works by Kathleen Hudspeth.  You Were Always there with Us is an exhibition of drawings and prints which addresses the seemingly contradictory ideas of oppression and inclusion.  The works use a language of visual symbology to refer to dominant and marginalized groups within the context of both art history and impossible situations.  Knives, bouquets, logs, flies and drips stand for actions, people and systems simultaneously.  The work is made from a feminist perspective, and re-imagines the narrative of the white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy at an individual, intimate scale.

The culture of printmaking is an important influence on the works in this exhibition.  Though many of the works are prints, none is part of an identical edition; Hudspeth exploits the possibilities of the multiple in such a way as to rephrase and reframe visual statements in order to better build an internal language of meaning.  Engraving, lithography, mezzotint, etching and silkscreen are used together with collage to both evoke and undermine art-historical traditions.  Methods are combined, artifacts from the printmaking process, such as pin and registration holes, remain in the works, the contemporary photo-litho technique is used to reproduce hand-drawn imagery—intentionally without the assistance of digital processes, and media which are static and sticky are used to depict fluid, painterly marks.

Kathleen Hudspeth is a Miami native with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and soon to receive a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami in Printmaking.  You Were Always there with Us is her Master’s thesis exhibition. Her work has been in numerous local and national venues, including the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Bass Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C.  Her critical writings have been published in Art Papers, The Sun Post, and her (now defunct) blog, The Next Few Hours. She has been a visiting critic and lecturer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and a volunteer docent for 8 years at the Miami Art Museum.   Recently, she was selected as one of 45 finalists for the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge for her idea to start a community print shop.

The BFI is an artist-run alternative space located in the Buena Vista Building in Miami’s Design District.  It was founded in July 2004 by artists Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher.  The space is currently run by Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Kathryn Marks and Agatha Wara.  Bas Fisher Invitational is open from 7 – 10 PM during events or by appointment.