ÑEW YORK: Latin American and Spanish artists in New York

© Dulce Pinzón. "Spiderman"

February 16 - May 20, 2012

AMA ׀ Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006 


ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Ñew York, featuring works by young, outstanding Latin American and Spanish artists residing in New York City commemorates a long lost artistic exchange and recovers innovative communication channels between Latin American and Spanish plastic and visual artists. The exhibition incorporates New York City as the current setting where these creative forces re-encounter themselves.

The exhibition addresses mobility in an era of widespread displacement where barriers between the global and the local are broken down. Motion (mobility), emotion (personal artistic work) and promotion (promote and advance the careers of expat artists) are all addressed throughout the show.

The artists were selected based on their accomplishments, artistic careers and their approach to concepts of mobility, migration and cultural exchange, all intrinsic to a city where new ideas, experiences and diversity converge.

Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli (all from Spain), Ñew York showcases the work of 19 artists from 10 countries from Latin America and Spain - all based in New York - who have made this city the gravitating force of their artistic discourse.

FEATURED ARTISTS
Sol Aramendi (Argentina)
Julieta Aranda (Mexico)
Ada Bobonis (Puerto Rico)
Alberto Borea (Peru)
Antón Cabaleiro (Spain)
Juanma Carrillo (Spain)
Nicky Enright (Ecuador)
Félix Fernández (Spain)
Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala)
Abigail Lazkoz (Spain)
Lluis Lleó (Spain)
Manuel Molina Martagón (Mexico)
Esperanza Mayobre (Venezuela)
Carlos Motta (Colombia)
Iván Navarro (Chile)
Dulce Pinzón (Mexico)
Fernando Renes (Spain)
José Ruíz (Peru)
Manuela Viera-Gallo (Chile)

Not all of these artists are photographers but each one is worth a look for making art that address contemporary issues that speak to Latin identity.

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Jaime Permuth's "Yonkeros" Touring Gallery Exhibition with En Foco

© Jaime Permuth, Untitled, Yonkeros series.

Photographer Jaime Permuth has a wonderful B&W project called Yonkeros that will be featured as an En Foco Touring Gallery Exhibition. Mark your calendars and go see this show!

"Yonkeros" is a popular term for businesses that strip wrecked cars and sell them as scrap metal or for parts. The term is a Spanglish derivative of "junk", conjugated grammatically to refer to people who engage in this line of work.
Read more of the artist statement at En Foco.

Dates: February 28–April 5, 2012

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 7 from 5:00 to 6:45pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 24 from 2:00 to 3:00pm

Location: Pregones Theater 571 - 575 Walton Avenue (between 149 & 150th Streets, one block west of the Grand Concourse) Bronx, NY 10451
Tel: 718-585-1202
 
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New Photo Show at NYU Explores Time, History and Memory

Benevolent Oschun at Pyramids
Giza, Egypt 2003
© Chester Higgins

Artists include: Brett Cook, Sonia Louise Davis, Daniel Dawson, Stephanie Dinkins, Michael Forbes, Tahir Hemphill, Chester Higgins, Sheila Pree Bright, Shani Peters, Jamel Shabazz, Deborah Willis, Hank Willis Thomas 

Opening Reception: Monday, February 6, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
1 Washington Place NYC 10003

Currently Reading "Mixed Blessings: New Art In A Multicultural America"

As you know I'm in the MFA in Advanced Photographic Practice program at ICP-Bard, so since last September I've started (re)using the analytical and critical part of my brain more than I have in 11+ years!

Needless to say I've had to dust the cobwebs off and discard useless information to make room in my brain's memory bank for all the artists names, artworks, art institutions, art shows that we talk about... but I finally feel like I'm getting into a groove.

Now let me tell you about my lists. My free time is ruled by lists of things to see and read - one such list is books about art. (Perhaps I'll publish these lists as future blog posts?) A book I discovered lately is Lucy Lippard's "Mixed Blessings: New Art In A Multicultural America" published in 1990.

Best Of Dodge & Burn's 2011 Posts

So I started off writing this post thinking that I wouldn't have anything much to link to, but looking back at this year's posts I surprised myself. Despite my new-Mommy lifestyle, enrolling in graduate school for my MFA and a few personal struggles, I managed to keep this blog afloat with some good content.

Here are a few headlines of note:

Bonham's Auction in Dubai Signals Demand for Middle Eastern Photography

Get a wake up call with this guest post by photographer Sinden Collier, Copyright Insurance - Protect Your Work. That said, I'd like to have more! Feel free to contact me with any submissions for guest posts on this blog.

Following his release from prison came the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993 show at the Asia Society in NYC.

Dawoud Bey, Eli Reed (both African-American) and Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese) all honored at the 9th Annual Lucie Awards this year.

Global Launch of HistoryPin, powered by Google - this social media site invites you to share your old photographs with the world.

My two "fototazo f100" picks of photographers who deserve more recognition.

This year my interviews broke the photographer mold to get some insight from those on the business side of photography, which I'd like to continue as a new series on the blog. Check out my interview with photography consultant Marc Prüst and gallerist Jennie Ricketts.

Photographer Interview Ayana V Jackson

It's rare that the Black experience in Latin American culture is acknowledged, let a lone documented via photography. In her series African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, photographer Ayana V Jackson's commitment to showing this part of the African Diaspora that has been shoved under the rug, is what drew me to her work. Ayana's work is opinionated and steeped in the scars left from colonial history without being didactic. Read on to learn more about her journey to becoming a working fine art photographer and her recent experience at Paris Photo 2011.

D&B: Where are you from?
AVJ: I was born in New Jersey, USA however I live between Johannesburg and New York.

D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how did you get started - any "formal" training?
AVJ: My practice is quite diverse. I began with reportage/documentary in 2001 with projects centered around Contemporary Africa and African Diaspora identity. Via portraiture I created several bodies of work aimed at exposing the complexity of black identity worldwide. From hip hop artists in West Africa to African descendents in Latin America I sought to uncover narratives that are rarely associated with people in the regions I worked in.

Recently I began creating self portraits. This transition marked the beginning of my studio practice. "Leapfrog (a bit of the other) Grand Matron Army" was the first of that series. In it I present my body in the form of 9 female archetypes from the precolonial to afrochic. The reason for this shift was that I wanted to have a more specific conversation with my work. Maintaining my body as a constant allows my audience to consider my concept and intentionality rather than examine my portraiture via an ethnographic point of view.

Regarding "formal" training: it is limited to an introductory class during undergrad and a more concentrated study during summer term under Katharina Sieverding at the Universitat der Kunst in Berlin. The latter was quite formative as it was during that time that I learned large format analogue printing and began to study photographic theory. 

Grid view of Grand Matron Army series 2010, Copyright Ayana V Jackson
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D&B: What cameras or techniques do you use?
AVJ: I use a YashikaMAT 124G and a Canon 5D.

Recontres de Bamako and Paris Photo 2011

From "The Ancestors Land" series by Malala Andrialavidrazana

November 10-13, 2011, a week after the opening of the 9th edition of Bamako Encounters (running from November 1, 2011 to January 1, 2012), the Paris Photo show is celebrating its 15th edition at the Grand Palais. African photography, from Bamako to Cape Town, is the theme this year. Learn more about this event at Paris Photo 2011.

Interview with Gallerist Jennie Ricketts

D&B: How did you get your start in the photography industry?
JR: I started working on the picture desk for the Observer colour supplement in the latter half of the 1980'a after meeting then picture editor June Stanier. But I had actually been working with photography in an advertising context for a few years before that.

June Stanier was looking for an assistant on her desk and had heard of me from a past colleague of mine at the ad agency. We met for lunch one day and I agreed to go work as her picture desk assistant.

The move to the picture desk really marked a graduation from the "applied" photography used in advertising to the more profound work of photojournalism and art photography that existed in colour supplements at the time, and that lead to my deeper interest in fine art photography.

African-American Photographers Honored at 9th Annual Lucie Awards

The Lucie Awards is the annual gala ceremony that celebrates master photographers and their contributions to the field of photography. Honorees are determined each year by the Lucie Awards Advisory Board, and pre-announced.

So basically, the Lucie Awards is like the Academy Awards for the photography industry.

At this year's 9th Annual Lucie Awards held on October 24th in NYC, it was great to see two African-American photographers honored. The 2011 honorees of note are:

Dawoud Bey for Achievement in Portraiture

Eli Reed for Achievement in Documentary Photography Award

Also honored was the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki for Achievement in Fine Art.

Congratulations!

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Giving Away 2 Free Copies of the Fall 2011 Issue of SPE's Exposure Journal

To celebrate the publication of my portfolio profile on UK photographer Marcia Michael in the Fall 2011 issue of exposure (the journal of the Society for Photographic Education) I'm giving away 2 free copies to the first 2 readers who contact me via Twitter.

This issue also features:

• Todd Hido and Elaine O'Neil in conversation
• Interview with artist Ann Hamilton
• A review of The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Capa, Chim and Taro
• Nine Audio Photo Assignments by Gregory Halpern and Jason Fulford
• and more...

Come and get them!


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