NALAC Fellows talk to IAP Newsletter Editor about their lives as Latinx artists.

Meeting many Latinx leaders in the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures  (NALAC) was such an inspiring and phenomenal experience! Read about it the Conversations with Alicia Ehni at NALAC Leadership Institute click here

Article about my Work in DesignFul. Kohler

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My Art work in the exhibition DRAWN (OVER): Contemporary Drawing from LeRoy Neiman Until Today in the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia

DRAWN (OVER): Contemporary Drawing from LeRoy Neiman Until Today 

Curators: Tomas Vu, Mirjana Dušić-Lazić 

Exhibition opening: Friday, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:00pm 

Duration of the exhibition: June 15 - July 9, 2018 

Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia 

The exhibition DRAWN (OVER): Contemporary Drawing from LeRoy Neiman Until Today is a part of an international project DRAW that was launched by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York. 

In cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia, The exhibition DRAWN (OVER) brings together the private sketches and drawings of seventy artists from around the world in an exhibition that provides a rare, revealing look into the drawing process and artists’ innermost thoughts. The participating artists are: 

Yasi Alipour         

David Altmejd       

Natalie Birinyi 

Cecily Brown 

Phong Bui 

Ernesto Caivano 

Nathan Catlin 

Saint Clair Cemin 

Aurélien Couput 

Predrag Dimitrijević 

Jelena Djurić 

Rafael Domenech 

Riaki Enyama 

Ghada Amer and 

Reza Farkhondeh 

Fab Five Freddy 

Ivan Forde 

Barnaby Furnas 

Gandalf Gavan 

Eric Guerrero 

Ben Hagari 

Valerie Hammond 

Suzanne Herrera 

Duy Hoàng 

Cary Hulbert 

Jasper Johns 

Goran Jureša 

Kurt Kemp 

William Kentridge 

Hedya Klein 

Susanna Koetter 

Nataša Kokić 

Fred H.C. Liang 

Kate Liebman 

Nicola López 

Tijana Luković 

Marko Marković 

Nikola Marković 

Bryan McGovern Wilson 

Nora Mesaroš 

Dante Migone-Ojeda 

Johana Moscoso 

LeRoy Neiman 

Brian Novatny 

Jennifer Nuss 

Norman Paris 

Mark Perlman 

Eva Petrič 

Kristin Plucar 

Nemanja i 

Vladimir Radusinović 

Jessica Segall 

Monika Sigeti 

Shahzia Sikander 

Luis Silva 

Dana Sherwood 

Dasha Shishkin 

Kiki Smith 

Dragana B. Stevanović 

Emma Sulkowicz 

Sarah Sze 

TARWUK 

Rirkrit Tiravanija 

Tomas Vu 

John Walker 

Kara Walker 

Heimo Wallner 

Tommy White 

Peter Wayne Lewis 

Yuan Zuo

The exhibition seeks to unearth a raw form of creative energy channeling the essential truth of an artist no pasteurized for public consumption. Unlike artwork created for public or commercial use, the diverse array of works included in DRAWN (OVER) will reveal an authenticity that exists in intimate spaces hidden from the public eye such as an artist’s sketchbook or studio. By focusing on the medium of drawing, the purpose of this exhibition is to showcase not the finished, polished products of traditional art exhibitions but rather the authentic, unfiltered beginning of something recorded through drawing. 

The concept of the Draw project began with the discovery of several sketchbooks that no one knew existed excavated from the New York studio of the late LeRoy Neiman after the artist’s passing. The stark difference between the drawings covering the pages of a sketchbook from 1949–52 compared to the characteristically jocular and proud imagery of Neiman’s “Americana” is shocking, if not jarring. Neiman himself has publicly asserted that he does not attempt to delve much beyond the surface in his work. “When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person–the surface facade,” he wrote in Art and Life Style. “I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person’s public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.” In these sketchbooks, however, gone are the prismatic and impressionistic illustrations of famous people and places. Instead, we find the murky depths of the realm of demons, mutated monsters and mythical beasts to reveal a completely diverging, hidden side of the famed artist. This discovery begs the question: how many more of these kinds of artist sketchbooks are out there? And, where does the artist go in the absence of outside pressures, expectations and interpretation? 

To begin to answer this question about the artists’ internal dialogue, artists including Jasper Johns, Kiki Smith, Cecily Brown, William Kentridge, Sarah Sze, and Kara Walker will have their drawings displayed unconventionally as one might find them in a private studio. Works will hang from floor to ceiling in multiple groupings. Though traditional exhibitions have included sketches and studies as secondary accessories of an artist’s work, Draw engages these works as the forefront of the show. In doing so, the exhibition DRAWN (OVER) offers a glimpse into the maker’s process, a microcosm of the artist’s creative mind. 

In addition to works hanging on the walls, this exhibition will include an interactive, live-action mural titled Demonstration Drawings by Rirkrit Tiravanija that will reflect some of the most pressing political topics of our time. Reconsidering the relevance of past resistance in light of today’s political climate, Tiravanija will invite local artists and volunteers to draw onto the walls of the exhibition using photographs collected over the course of many years that depict public protests and mass demonstrations from across the globe. This live drawing will provide a perspectival view of collective action and popular sovereignty movements worldwide—turning ephemeral images of strife and social conflict into documents of political aspiration. In participating in Rirkrit’s work, volunteers become implicated in the concept of activism. 

Interview in Telemundo noticias / Entrevista en Telemundo noticias

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Muchas gracias a la talentosa Joycelyn Pruna por entrevistarme en Telemundo Noticias. Estoy muy agradecida también a Edra Soto curadora de la exhibición Expansive Threads y Jacobo Lovo director de la galería Latino Arts.

Thank you very much to the talented Joycelyn Pruna for her interview in Telemundo Noticias. I am also very thankful to Edra Soto curator of Expansive Threads show, and Jacobo Lovo Managing Artistic Director of Latino Arts gallery.
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Arts/Industry Resident in the Kohler Pottery Facilities Fall 2017

During the Fall 2017 I was an artist-in-residence in the Kohler Co. Pottery factory. I am in the video library sharing my Arts/Industry experience. This is the video made by them.

Thank you John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Expansive Threads Exhibition in Latino Arts INC Gallery Milwaukee, WI

My work  Lohs see-Eh-teh coh-LOH-rehs is in this exhibition. 

This exhibition features a group of contemporary Latina American artists who incorporate the language of fiber arts into their practice. Through materials or concepts, the formal models denoted as fiber arts are being challenged by incorporating non-traditional materials, forms of display, or discourses. Similar to fiber arts, this group of artists creates work that emphasizes the aesthetic and conceptual value of the work over its utility.

Featured Artists:

Denise Treizman, Victoria Martinez, Johana Moscoso, Melissa Leandro, Dianna Frid, Diana Gabriel, Maria Gaspar, Nora Maite Nieves, Nayda Collazo Llorens, Brianna Lynn Hernandez Baurichter, and Valerie Moreno

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