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David Castillo Gallery: Gallery Projects - 9 May 2009 to 31 July 2009 Current Exhibition |
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David Castillo Gallery: Gallery Projects Alder Guerrier, Aramis Gutierrez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Javier Pi��n, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly, Wendy Wischer David Castillo Gallery May 9- July 31, 2009 Reception May 9, 7-10 pm David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Gallery Projects, a group show of new work by gallery artists Adler Guerrier, Aramis Gutierrez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Javier Pi��n, Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova, Frances Trombly, and Wendy Wischer. Glexis Novoa continues to develop a meticulous architecture in the realm of socio-political inquiry with a site-specific drawing for Gallery Projects. Novoa establishes a conduit to Pepe Mar's site- specific installation of twisted multicolor fantasy, as Orwellian in its penchant for escapism as the brutality of Novoa's lilliputian detail. Dwelling in Novoa's cityscape and illuminated by Mar's Technicolor is the loss of innocence apparent, too, in the slippery circumstance of Aramis Gutierrez's new oil on canvas. In At the Water Park, a pregnant couple fumbles to recapture the woman's missing swimsuit top. The moment is one of greater disconnect similar to the everyday instances of racial and ethnic discrepancy elevated by Adler Guerrier as a black fl�neur in his new work on paper. Startling juxtapositions also exist as the pedestal of 1950's beauty is shifted in a sinister collaboration between beauty and monstrosity in Javier Pi��n's Medusa collages, while Quisqueya Henriquez's collages play with the perceived heightened masculinity of Latin cultures by manipulating symbolic male images. The simplicity of everyday objects is reassessed through subtle alterations in Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova's mirrored frame. Frances Trombly examines quality and function through painstaking precision to create the optical illusion of a seemingly typical rope, while Wendy Wischer constructs nature through the delicate skill of utilizing manufactured materials to create a moment of organic serenity. Susan Lee-Chun's Susersize continues the artist's theme of redefinition in creating a sculpture referencing exercise equipment and warping standard attention to structure. David Castillo Gallery is proud to announce its participation at VOLTA5 Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland, June 2009. It also recognizes Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova, a Cintas Fellowship Finalist; as well as Susan Lee-Chun's acceptance to the artist residency Three Walls in Chicago. In the Fall 2009, work by Aramis Gutierrez, Pepe Mar, and Glexis Novoa will be included in TIME + TEMP: Surveying the shifting climate of current painting in South Florida at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL. Work by Quisqueya Henriquez, Pepe Mar, and Javier Pi��n will appear in a book of 21st century collage published in London; and Adler Guerrier's monograph will be released by Miami's [NAME] publications. Gallery artists' work in current exhibitions include Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, and Frances Trombly in With You I Want to Live: The Collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL and Wendy Wischer in Bit, Byte, Dot, Spot: Post-digital Art at the Tampa Museum of Art, FL. About David Castillo David Castillo holds degrees in History and Art History from Yale University and the Angelicum in Rome. Since 2000, he has dealt in important Latin American, European, and American secondary market works. David Castillo Gallery opened in 2005 after transforming a dilapidated warehouse in Miami, Florida, USA into a 5,000 square foot gallery, project room and annex. Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5pm and by appointment David Castillo Gallery at VOLTA5 Basel, Switzerland June 8-13, 2009 David Castillo Gallery is proud to to announce its participation in VOLTA5, Basel, Switzerland June 8-13, 2009. The gallery's presentation will be located at Booth J4 in the historic Markthalle, with works by Glexis Novoa and Quisqueya Henriquez. Glexis Novoa renders cityscapes and their instruments like peering into a curio cabinet and coming face-to-horizon with societal apocalypse in miniature. His graphite drawings on marble and drywall are almost voyeuristic in their revelation of the past and manifestation of the future- two unknowns responsible for the despair and hope entwined in Novoa's work. The artist's work brews an urgency implicit in the language of symbols based upon icons of political, ideological, religious, and Art Historical significance in the trench between what one sees and expects to see. In this no-man's land, Novoa re-codifies the past, critiques the present, and projects a future either destined for disrepair or ripe for collaboration and creative reconstruction. Quisqueya Henriquez's collage uses newspapers pillaged for baseball imagery. In dissecting a sinewy bicep or the angle of a bat against the sky, Henriquez creates collaged figures bordering on the mythical, surreal, and grotesque. Her Frankenstein players display hyperbolic elements of masculinity, power, and dexterity; the object referent is replaced by a satire of the velocity of cultural stereotypes, namely fetishized abilities of Latin Americans in sports, dance, and sex. Individual identities of Henriquez's players are as distorted as the misperceptions germinated by spectators. Glexis Novoa was born in Holguin, Cuba and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the National School of Art, Havana and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. His work has appeared in Artnews, New York Times, Miami Herald, Artpapers, and Art in America among many other publications. He is also included in the Phaidon book Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Quisqueya Henriquez was born in 1966 in Havana, Cuba; she now lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Henriquez's work is in important private and public collections including El Museo del Barrio, NY and Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, NY. The September 2007 issue of ARTnews named Henriquez one of 25 art world trendsetters. Before traveling to the Miami Art Museum, Henriquez's mid-career retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts garnered a review in the New York Times. In Fall 2009, the artist's work will be included in a book on 21st century collage, published in London. Upcoming in 2010, Henriquez will have a solo exhibition at MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona, Spain. VOLTA5 Information: Markthalle is located at Viadukstrasse 10, Basel Early Preview: Monday June 8th, 12 - 4 pm (access by invitation only) General Opening: Monday June 8th, 4 - 8 pm Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, June 9th - June 13th, 12 - 8 pm Special Early Opening: Wednesday June 10th, 10 am - 12 pm |
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