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¡Impresionante!:
Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists
Guest
Curated by Deborah Cullen and Harper Montgomery
September
17-October 23, 2004
International
Print Center New York announces the presentation of ¡Impresionante!:
Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists from
Friday, September 17th through Saturday, October 23rd, 2004, in
its Chelsea gallery at 526 West 26th Street. Presenting the work
of eighteen artists working today in New York or San Juan, or alternating
between the two locations, ¡Impresionante! anticipates
the Poli/graphic Triennial of San Juan: Latin America and the Caribbean
to be held in San Juan later this fall.
Coinciding
with Hispanic Heritage Month in New York State which begins on September
15th, ¡Impresionante! celebrates the rich tradition
of printmaking and the graphic arts in Puerto Rico.
The
exhibition has been guest curated for IPCNY by Deborah Cullen, Curator,
El Museo del Barrio, New York City, and Harper Montgomery, North
American Curator of the San Juan Triennial and former Assistant
Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The complete artists' list is as follows: Adál, Desirée
Alvarez, Nayda Collazo- Llorens, Fernando Colón González,
Liz D. Amable, Teo Freytes, Jesús-Manuel Gómez, Cari
González-Casanova, Rosa Irigoyen, Miguel Luciano, Rossana
Martinez, Antonio Martorell, Maria
de Mater O'Neill, Raquel Quijano Feliciano, Carlos Ruiz Valarino,
Aaron Salabarrias Valle, Juan Sánchez, Garvin Sierra. Although
many of these artists work and exhibit both in New York and Puerto
Rico-- and are therefore well known to New York audiences-- some
will be showing their work in New York for the first time.
In
the words of the curators, "the artworks encompass a variety
of approaches: political protest, poetic narratives, and formal
proposals…. The work speaks to both the ephemeral nature of
the printed image, as well as to its stubborn historical presence.
Despite the range, all of these artists share a conceptual approach
to printmaking, taking advantage of printed media's inherently self-reflective
character."
The
work ranges from Juan Sánchez's masterfully layered images
of personal narratives, to Fernando Colón González's
minimalist postcards, to Liz D. Amable's reinterpreted images of
Afro-Caribbean deities, to Miguel Luciano's kites-- conceived to
send messages of peace sailing over the fence of the U.S. military
base in Vieques.
An
illustrated brochure accompanies the exhibition.
¡Impresionante!
is supported in part with a grant from the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs
Administration.
September
8, 2004
Supported in
part by the
