El Taller Latino Americano's Grady Alexis Gallery invites artists from all backgrounds to submit works that reflect their ideas about the Americas - North and South of the Border.
The exhibition, scheduled for September 2009, during Hispanic Heritage month, will encourage discourse about the many complex topics associated with International policies as well as find works that illuminate cultural similarities.
Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, July 16, 6 to 8pm
The Grady Alexis Gallery at Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Images of CUBA: Three Photographers, an exhibition of the photographs of Paul Stetzer, Jay Potter and Paul Typaldos. The works of these artists lifts the veil of a country that not many in the US have had a chance to see.
Travel photographs are often about "otherness": what is distinct or unique about a place or a person. Subject then becomes object. Travelers bring these found objects home to show friends and family what unusual sights they beheld during their adventures. Unlike this typical model, these three New York-based photographers share one thing in common: a tenderness that draws the subject closer. These travelers are using their cameras to humanely capture images that depict the "vital" and "vibrant" culture they have experienced. The photographic concerns are different enough for viewers to find a unique vision within each artist's work, yet the narratives flow naturally between them offering a portrait of space and individual that provides insight into a complex and seemingly distant culture.
Jay Potter's colorful images are well composed, often humorous, often ironic views of Havana. He has photographed throughout Australia, Peru, Spain, the US and Cuba.
Paul Stetzer uses his skillful technique to bring Cuban faces into focus with the friendly air of a well-liked neighbor. His images - landscapes, portraits, and documentaries - have been exhibited in the US, Mexico and Havana.
Film-maker and photographer, Paul Typaldos, brings together gesture, light and open space that allows the viewer to consider the way that people occupy the environment. Most recently, his images have been shown at the Center for Experimental Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, CA.
Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, June 4, 6 to 8pm
Images:
Left: Anne Humanfeld: Heart Bud Acrylic transfer on canvas.
Middle: Maria Dominguez: Saxs Mixed media on canvas.
Right: Camille Eskell Fragment: Cie Lithograph on silk chiffon with lace.
The Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Three Women, Three Visions, an exhibition of paintings, prints and mixed media works by artists Camille Eskell, Maria Dominguez and Anne Humanfeld.
Camille Eskell presents large-scale images of women “Working in mixed media, I combine a variety of techniques, such as drawing, printing, found objects and fabrics. Questions of tradition, seduction, complacency, and pattern are implied through the use of lace, a material dense with connotations and familiar to me since childhood through a long-standing family business interwoven in our lives.”
Maria Dominguez presents paintings on canvas from her Jazz inspired series titled Hot House. “The deep contrasting colors are gathered from my photos of live performances. Musicians are immersed by traveling color spotlights and are transformed almost into caricatures”.
Anne Humanfeld presents acrylic transfers on canvas and glassine “These pictures originate in reworking discovered fragments of graphic imagery. Recombining these elements opens into the energy of my own visual universe through a process of free association. The work evolves out of human curiosity as in archaeology or dissection, becoming a series of illustrations of my story.”
Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, April 9, 6 to 8pm
The Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Reflection Over Water, an exhibition by artist Oscar Pardo. Pardo shows new works that reveal the textures and forms of water as observed from above.
Pardo, an artist well known for his unique application of Sumi-e, an Asian brush technique, demonstrates his mastery of brush work in these sea abstractions where his limited palate gives way to spontaneous forms and textures. Aquatic filigree, bubbles of light and lace dance in his compositions. "Throughout history cultures have revered water as essential to sustain life." writes Pardo. He continues "I am interested in the sea as abstraction, and abstraction is the essence of form."
In one of the featured works, titled "Sea View 16" wave like forms in hues of blue hold our gaze; a brown is lain in a steady stroke - is it land or the ocean depths? White accents shift our perception of space again - are we in the clouds or riding the waves? Kinetic, energetic and like the sea calming, Pardo has produced the essence of water in these striking paintings.
Oscar Pardo was born in Mendoza, Argentina in 1946, within a family of artists. Raised at the skirts of the Andes, he was strongly attracted by the magnificence of the mountains and of Nature itself. This lead him to mountain climbing, reaching instructor level. He has worked with Grupo Vocacional América¨- Audiovisual Experimental group, Mendoza, Argentina-1963, ¨El Grupo¨- Latin American music, poetry and art - New York- 1977, ¨Mural Andino¨- Stone Wall Art in Mendoza, Argentina-1982. His Sumi-e studies were taken at the Koho Yamamoto School, in Soho; Budo studies, (Zen Archery) at the Buddhism Church in New York; and Zen Painting classes at Amherst University. He has lived in Puerto Rico since 1980. Pardo's work has been exhibited widely throughout the Americas. His last exhibition was reviewed in the Business of Puerto Rico Magazine and Arte Latinoamericano magazine.
Exhibition curated by Jennifer Pliego and Bernardo Palombo.
Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, March 12, 6 to 8pm
The Grady Alexis Gallery at Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Elder Flowers, an exhibition by artist J. Maya Luz. The exhibition features color
prints of flowers past the normal span of life usually referred to as its prime.
With the use of a scanner and Photoshop, Maya Luz creates intricate images that use the decomposition of a flower as a symbol for maturation, wisdom and mortality. Beautiful and contemplative, these
images are reminiscent of nineteenth and twentieth century master photographs yet are contemporary in both their style and their technical achievement.
One of the featured works, titled "Tulip", depicts a flower that has lost most of it's petals, yet the transformation that has occurred, despite this loss, is a heightened effect in the coloration of
the remaining petals - asking the viewer to extend one's notion of beauty and reveling in how its natural process reveals different aspects of its character. Maya Luz posits that our humanity and
strength develop on a similar course.
J. Maya Luz is Artist-In-Residence at El Taller Latino Americano. She has photographed many of the notable musicians and artists that have performed and exhibited there. She has exhibited in New York
galleries and abroad. In 2005 one her bodies of work, "DAR A LUZ/BRING TO LIGHT", was selected to visually represent the Pan American Health Organization's concept - "Make Every Mother and Child
Count". This is her third solo exhibition at the Grady Alexis Gallery.
Exhibition curated by Jennifer Pliego and Bernardo Palombo.
The Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Reflection Over Water, an exhibition by artist Oscar Pardo. Pardo shows new works that reveal the textures and forms of water as observed from above.
The Grady Alexis Gallery at Taller Latino Americano is pleased to announce Elder Flowers, an exhibition by artist J. Maya Luz. The exhibition features color
prints of flowers past the normal span of life usually referred to as its prime.