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Lehman College Art Gallery
UPCOMING EVENTS
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind
Reception for Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind. In the front: Empire State, 2013, by Alexandre Arrechea. Photo Courtesy of Geandy Pavón
Events are free and open to the public.
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April 2, 2014 at 5:00pm
Artist Talk: Emilio Pérez.
In collaboration with Lehman College Art Department
Lecture: Material Culture and Archive: Cuba and the United States, by María Antonia Cabrera
Lecture: Possible Destinies: Reflections on Cuban/American Video, by curator Meyken Barreto
May 8, 2014 at 12:30pm
Gallery Talk with three of the artists from the exhibition. The City and the Humanities Program
Gallery Talks:
March 26, 2014 at 12:30pm
April 1, 2014 at 1:00pm
April 10, 2014 at 12:30pm
May 1, 2014 at 12:00 pm
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Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind includes over 35 contemporary artists of Cuban descent, who have been raised in the States or in Cuba. In this groundbreaking exhibition, a myriad of themes are inspired by America: as the familiar homeland for second and third generation children of Cuban parents, or as the distant, imagined place that has historically empowered diverse ideologies on the Island. In a wide range of perspectives and styles, the United States can be both the backdrop, and the protagonist in diverse narratives.
These views, rarely put together, portray multiple landscapes of the concept of empire, so easily associated with both countries, while the works in this exhibition add to the construction of a fresh, as well as complex, image of America: a Cuban America.
The exhibition is co-curated by Yuneikys Villalonga and Susan Hoeltzel and includes a related Cuban video art program organized by guest curator Meykén Barreto. A series of special programs is conducted by guest curator Elvis Fuentes.
Artists in the show include Alejandro Aguilera, Jairo Alfonso, Alexandre Arrechea, Tania Bruguera, María Magdalena Campos, Yoán Capote, Los Carpinteros, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Christian Curiel, Alessandra Expósito, Teresita Fernández, Carlos Garaicoa, Anthony Goicolea, María Elena González, Armando Guiller, Luis Mallo, María Martínez Cañas, Abelardo Morell, Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza, Glexis Novoa, Geandy Pavón, Emilio Pérez, Javier Piñón, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, Andrés Serrano, & Katarina Wong.
Video program: Juan Carlos Alom, Allora and Calzadilla, Humberto Díaz, Felipe Dulzaides, Luis Gárciga, Tony Labat, Glenda León, and Ana Olema.
This exhibition is made possible with support from Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.; Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation; The Reed Foundation; Alex and Carole Rosenberg; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
Special Thanks to Cabot Creamery and Havana Central Restaurant
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This exhibition and events begin the gallery's
30th Anniversary Celebration
Please help support the Lehman College Art Gallery
with a tax deductible donation!
Lehman College Art Gallery's programs are made possible by: Institute of Museum and Library Services; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Council through G. Oliver Koppell and the Bronx Delegation;
Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation;
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation; IBM; Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation; The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation; The Reed Foundation;
and The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund
Lehman College Art Gallery
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, N.Y. 10468-1589
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Admission is always free
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MARTIN WICKSTRÖMPerfume River10 April - 10 MayMike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present Swedish artist Martin Wickström's inaugural solo exhibition in New York. Blending signage, landscape, figuration, and Sixties paraphernalia into montage, Perfume River presents twelve oil-on-canvas paintings of cinematic proportion and enigmatic presence. Composed into scenes and moods with palpable depth, Wickström's scrapbook-like composition intertwines both collective memory and introspective biography, reminiscent of our uncertain past and nostalgic for histories that never were. It is through the artist's line of sight that new, lingering meaning is given - that, or none at all.Wickström references his extensive world travels, namely an impactful stint in Vietnam, as well as his history of overlapping paint, found object, light, audio and installation. His process splices found imagery and personal photography together, incorporating a kind of chance encounter that lives on in his photoconceptual realism. Interplay of light and focus procures an air of mystery, a visual poetry which resonates with our subconscious and curiosity. Repeating imagery of vibrant plastic buckets, reflective pools, and retro graphic text in sequence feels decidedly Pop, even reminiscent of propaganda. Through this fusion of somewhat dissonant aspects, the works maintain a certain sobriety - an unmistakable façade that bespeaks a world of meaning lurking beneath the surface. Materials then assume a nexus of dyads - water both beautiful and catastrophic; plastic transformative and artificial; perfume intoxicating and pungent; memory sweet and haunting.Like documentary vignettes the paintings converse as puzzle pieces within a greater whole - each a meditation on our metaphysical quests. To be sure, Wickström's pseudo-narrative experiments with this lack of overt meaning, even insertion of meaning - like an empty vessel to be filled, or a vehicle for broader truths in this fast-changing world of ours.Martin Wickström lives and works in Stockholm and is one of the preeminent living painters in Sweden. His work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, The Gothenburg Art Museum, and the Malmö Museum among others. He shows with Angelika Knäpper at Lars Bohman Gallery in Stockholm.Lauren Licata, Director520 W 24 NYC
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