Celebrate 50 Years at The Bronx Museum July 15, 2022

The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Klaudio Rodriguez cordially invite you to attend an opening reception for Medicina de Amor by Gerardo Dexter Ciprian. Friday, July 15, 2022  6:00 to 8:00 PM The Bronx Museum of the Arts  1040 Grand Concourse  Bronx, NY 10456 Medicina de Amor is a solo exhibition of recent work by artist-in-residence Gerardo Dexter Ciprian. Working with archival material, hand-me-down objects, recollections from memory, and folklore, Ciprian conjures the ephemera that animate their migration passage and the Dominican diaspora more broadly. At once personal and allegorical, the exhibition draws on a vast wealth of personal stories, riddles, and superstitions the artist has archived over the years as well as objects and images with special significance in the Dominican imaginary. Jabon de cuaba, an iconic soap used for everything from washing your body to cleaning dishes, is reconstituted into bricks from the artist’s Bronx family home; hand-me-down furniture passed down from the artist’s grandparents is transformed into lamps that seem to power themselves—a reference to the power outages prevalent in the Caribbean nation. The works are never circumscribed to any one time and place, and often play on a tension between opacity and legibility—a proxy for the indeterminacy of the shifting ground beneath migration and the inevitable fading of intergenerational memory. Image: Gerardo Dexter Ciprian. Still from Medicina De Amor, 2022  Video, 7 minutes. RSVP Here  Medicina de Amor has been organized by the Bronx Museum’s Education Department, and is made possible by the generous support of Martin Weinstein and Tereza Liszka, Debbie Rechtler, Cher Lewis, Friends of AIM, SRI Fine Art Services, the Jerome Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Miranda Family Fund. Additional support of the AIM artist residency is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The New York Community Trust, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Oded Halahmy Foundation for the Arts, Inc., Joshua Stein PLLC, and Gerald Weinstein. ©2022 Bronx Museum of the Arts | 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St | Bronx NY | 1045650Year

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