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Visual artist Quintín Rivera Toro, represented by Walter Otero Gallery, has been selected by the Advisory Comitee of the Museo de las Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for his fist comprehensive solo exhibition. Read the rest of this post »

The happiest times of our lives are sometimes tarnished by society, making it harder for our youth to adjust. At times children make up invisible characters and construct masks so they can hide their fears. Personified in a cartoonish way, Jorge Pineda’s characters portray these violent and at sometimes destructive ways. Read the rest of this post »

Ivelisse Jiménez uses painting as a point of departure to construct pieces that deal with the idea of simultaneity and contradiction. The manner in which objects, images and materials are articulated questions the hierarchies of what is most present. Read the rest of this post »

In her first solo show at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, the Berlin-based artist Johanna Diehl presents works from her series “Displace” – photographs of empty, converted, sometimes destroyed churches and mosques, photographs in the Muslim North and the orthodox Christian south of the divided island Cyprus. Read the rest of this post »

Aaron Salabarrías is a multidisciplinary artist that employs photography and painting as a recurring medium in his installations to present viewers with a dissimilar view of the tired ‘island paradise’ cliché. By decontextualizing objects, he transforms them into sublime readymades that create a dialogue between the object and the spectator. Read the rest of this post »

On view in New York City from March 17th through April, Team Gallery presents the third solo show of New York based photographer Ryan McGinley entitled Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. The 33 year-old artist has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art and at PS1 in New York, at the MUSAC in Spain, and at the Kunsthalle Vienna. Read the rest of this post »

Throughout the history of Central America, there is not one single artist that has flaunted worldwide fame as Guillermo Vargas “Habacuc”, who stepped into the international arena with his solo exhibition at the Códice de Managua gallery in Nicaragua on August 16th 2007.  Read the rest of this post »

Slinkachu is a London based artist who creates very small street based installations of miniature model train set characters, which are placed on the street and photographed. Read the rest of this post »

Inspired by many ideas at once, Vincent Lafrance constructs multiple bodies of work simultaneously using primarily video and photography. This eclectic method, once considered conceptually uncomfortable, has resulted in a body of work that is both polymorphic and discontinuous. Read the rest of this post »

“At the far end of the source, there is the echo. The echo is the image of your image. The voice of your voice. The echo is heavy water that darkens with time.” Read the rest of this post »