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  • Everyday Travails

    The press release


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    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

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  • Locust Projects – Fall 2009 calendar

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  • Black Atlantic

    Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
    29 January – 25 April 2010

    This major exhibition, 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.

    From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

    Divided into seven chronological chapters, from early twentieth century avant-garde movements such as the Harlem Renaissance to current debates around ‘Post-Black’ art, this exhibition opens up an alternative transatlantic reading of Modernism and its impact on contemporary culture for a new generation.

    Tate Liverpool has initiated a city-wide programme of parallel exhibitions and events that explore the themes and ideas of Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic. Partners include the Bluecoat, FACT (Foundation for Art Creative Technology), Metal, Walker Art Gallery and Liverpool University.
    Supported by Liverpool City Council

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  • Bicentennial Park(Museum Park) re-design

    Bicentennial Park(Museum Park) re-design

    A competition has been announced for the re-design of the metromover station (bottom center of image).  It’s open to anyone; cash prize. Info here.

    Downtown Miami and the Biscayne Wall.

    photo via flickr.

  • Downtown Miami

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  • Raul Denieves

    Newman-Popiashvili Gallery

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