More info: http://www.cristosalvadorgaleria.com/2015/05/697/

UJAMAA (diagrams), 2015
text-based seating system

Third Space: Inventing the posible (group exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Sept. 25, 2014.

http://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/global-positioning-systems

Global Positioning Systems is the second iteration of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Overview Galleries, in which selections from PAMM’s permanent collection are displayed alongside loans from important private collections. Consisting of six interrelated parts (titledHistory Painting, Visual Memory, The Uses of History, Urban Imaginaries, The Contested Present, and Forms of Commemoration), this thematic group presentation explores the intersection between globalization and history. Since the late 1980s, the political and economic forces unleashed at the close of the Cold War have combined with dramatic advances in transportation and digital communications to create an unprecedented degree of interdependency among the nations of the world. As the networks of individuals, institutions, and markets that constitute the international system of art-making and distribution have expanded to include voices from disparate regions and contexts, the field has become a mirror for the cultural effects of this heightened state of global integration. One of the most important of these cultural effects has been the destabilization of any singular understandings of time and world history. The idea that the past may bear different meanings depending on one’s geographic and cultural standpoint has never seemed more incontrovertible. Global Positioning Systems explores this issue by bringing together the productions of an international and intergenerational array of artists who engage diverse histories while raising questions about how the past is recorded and remembered.

Global Positioning Systems bears specific resonances with Miami. As a result of its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami’s trajectory has been inextricably tied to historical developments unfolding in the countries that constitute these regions. Moreover, in recent years, Miami has been locked in a cycle of striking growth, which has come hand in hand with rapid transformations of its urban landscape and social makeup. It is a city poised at multiple geographic and temporal thresholds, a condition from which it draws much of its dynamism and potential.

Global Positioning Systems: Urban Imaginaries
Opens August 19, 2014

Artists have frequently used imaginary representations of cities to critique aspects of society and to propose alternative ways of living. The literary and artistic genre of science fiction abounds with utopian and dystopian visualizations of urban landscapes in which the problems of contemporary life are either resolved or magnified. Some of the artists included in this gallery envision futuristic urban settings in order to articulate anxieties about present-day society in light of technological change, environmental degradation, or political turmoil. Other artists take a different approach to the theme of imagined cities, addressing the impulse to generate urban identities conducive to commercial interests such as tourism and development. Still others give physical form to features of the city that are normally invisible or easy to overlook.

On view through July 12, 2014
IMPACT & LEGACY: 50 Years of the CINTAS Foundation
As the first large-­scale exhibition of the CINTAS 
Fellows Collection, Impact and Legacy highlights 
CINTAS Fellows from all eras  and includes works 
from the Foundation’s expansive collection. MDC
 Museum of Art + Design, steward of the CINTAS 
Fellows Collection, is composed of works by 
CINTAS Fellows, the Foundation’s renowned annual competition and fellowship award administered by the Museum every October.

Provisional chairs (from Objects of Necessity), 2005. Founded metal bar chairs, monobloc plastic chairs and clothes. Set of two. Edition of 5.

Technological Disobedience at Miami Science Museum. Invited by James Herring

Technological Disobedience at Miami Science Museum

Cuban America
An Empire State of Mind
Lehman College Art Gallery
February 4 – May 14, 2014
Reception: March 17th, 2014
6:00 – 8:00 pm

more info here

The reception will include a special performance by artist Carmelita Tropicana.

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.

Social, cultural, and political discussions are brought to the table while old stereotypes associated with America or Cuba are revisited. In contrast, other artists explore everyday life, make abstractions, or focus on the materials themselves, influenced by nature or the environment. Some artists in the show use contemporary or historical images of American icons and symbols; others draw on remembrances of a distant Cuba that somehow defines them. Cities and their architecture find their way into the work along with imaginary locations.

Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind 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 Morel,
Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza, Glexis Novoa, Geandy Pavón, Emilio Pérez, Javier Piñón, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, Andrés Serrano, & Katarina Wong.

Video installation: Juan Carlos Alom, Allora and Calzadilla, Humberto Díaz, Felipe Dulzaides, Luis Gárciga, Tony Labatt, Glenda León, and Ana Olema.

EVENTS
– March 18, 2014 – 6pm
Panel: In A Material World: Cubans Discuss Their America, moderated by Elvis Fuentes
– May 14, 2014 – 1pm
Talk and Tastings: Cuban Cuisine, by a Havana Central Restaurant Chef

Lehman College Art Gallery
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, N.Y. 10468-1589
tel. 718-960-8731 – fax 718-960-6991
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 4 pm

Horizon. Wind chime hanging fixed with red Napalm B.
Glass, aluminum, iron, clear acrylic, red Napalm B. 2013

Romance
Curated by Peter Menéndez

Under the bridge
12425 NE 13th Ave (Ground Floor, #4)
NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA 33181

OPENING RECEPTION:
Sunday February 9, 2014 6-9 PM

CLOSING:
Sunday April 6, 2014 noon – 3 PM
Other viewings bv APPOINTMENT ONLY
CALL. 305.987.4437

Pavel Acosta, Rafael Domenech, Alejandro González, José Iraola, María Martínez-Cañas, Juan Martín, Ernesto Oroza, Rubén Torres-Llorca, Daniel Viñoly

Review by Janet Batet