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COCKED!
THE POSSESSED MALE
Group show featuring Jack Balas
CuratorLuis De Jesus
Location: Seminal Projects
Directions:2040 India Street San Diego, CA 92101
COCKED!is a big "boy" show—a survey,
of sorts, of post-masculine or reformist-male art created by men—and a response to the feminist shows that have taken place over the last two years (i.e., WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution). The exhibition, organized and presented by Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects from July 17 through August 30, 2008, will include the work of approximately 20 artists, almost all of them living and working in the San Diego-So Cal region. COCKED! will examine issues of masculinity and "production", the idea that men are predisposed to "make", "build" or "transform" objects.
July 20th- August 17th 2008
. . . OF THE CLOTH
Group show featuring Guerra de la Paz
Curated by Douglas Ferrari
Opening: Sunday, July 20, 3-6pm.
Location: Shore Institute of the Contemorary Arts
Directions: 20 Third Avenue Long Branch, NJ 07740
Artists who emphasize cloth or clothing as a major component in their work will be featured in this show. This "cloth" component may be physical, conceptual, or metaphoric.
ELSEWHERE
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY
arist-in-residence Guerra de la Paz
Location:Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
Directions: 606 South Elm St.Greensboro, NC. 27406
Elsewhere’s residency program invites emerging and established artists and scholars to create site-specific works using the plethora of objects and dynamic spaces as materials for works or as a foundation for conceptual or technological projects. Residents launch projects from within the theoretical framework of an evolving exhibition of objects and artworks across media, composing an experimental museum rethinking the premise of the collector and collection, questions of history and myth, the stasis of the art object, the role of the artist, and the relationship of process within production.
August 25th 2008
ARTIST TALK
Guerra de la Paz
Opening: Monday August 25th 4pm
Location: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Directions: corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets Greensboro, NC 27402
Cuban born, Miami-based artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, aka Guerra de la Paz, reuse thousands of used clothing items to create life-size installations of figures and landscapes. Guerra de la Paz will give a talk on past and current work as part of their 2008 summer residency at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro.
September 18th -December 15th 2008
POLYCHROME AFFINITIES
Guerra de la Paz
Curator Michelle Weinberg
Opening: Thursday September 18th 7pm.
Location: Miami-Dade Public Library
Directions: 101 West Flagler St. Miami, FL 33130
Artist Talk: Thursday, November 6th 2008 7pm.
Complementary aesthetics - Polychrome Affinities - unite these artists. All use color in an analytical way, derived from the underlying structure of spectrum of color that exists in nature, rather than an impressionistic response to local color. Color chips, Pantone color arrays, and artificial hues from print media and found textiles are used in an abstract palette that heightens the experience of viewing ordinary color. Sequential relationships and color families are intuitively deployed by each. Each artist is a scavenger of raw materials and images absorbed from the visual environment of Miami, which are then sorted according to color.