NEW YORK Jack Shainman Gallery Simpson’s figures are arranged toward each other; entering their presence feels like interrupting a conversation between old friends. Most of the exhibition’s dozen sculptures are life-size or larger, which adds to the sense of stepping through or meeting their gaze.
Hispanic Heritage
Healing Instruments: A Conversation with Guadalupe Maravilla
New York-based Guadalupe Maravilla left his homeland as a young boy during the height of El Salvador’s civil war. That traumatic past and a more recent bout with cancer have directed the course of his life and work.
Una Reflexión sobre la Metamorfosis del Estado de las Cosas: Una Conversación con Cecilia Nigro
Inicialmente con estudios en el campo de las relaciones publicas (UADE, Buenos Aires), la artista Cecilia Nigro se incorpora al mundo de las artes pláticas a través de la cerámica.
Margarita Cabrera
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS McNay Art Museum Margarita Cabrera’s socially engaged works—often communal projects addressing themes of national identity, hybridity, migration, and sacrifice—draw on the concept of nepantla, a Nahuatl word meaning “the space in the middle.”
Relaciones Multiespecie: Una Conversación con Romina Orazi
Romina Orazi, artista plástica, ambientalista y jardinera oriunda de Chubut, Argentina, se autodefine como “partícipe de la cultura libre.” Estudió la Licenciatura en Artes Visuales en el Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte y jardinería en la escuela Carlos Thays.
The Garden of Waste: A Conversation with Lucila Gradín
Lucila Gradín, who was born in Bariloche, Argentina, and now lives in Buenos Aires, develops her work around nature, specifically investigations into tinctorial and medicinal plants. Recently she has also been working with native plants that have all but disappeared.
El Re-encuentro del Hombre con la Naturaleza: Una Conversación con Federico Bacher
Dice el artista, “La re-unión del hombre con la naturaleza sería una forma de salvación, la única diría.” Esa búsqueda lo llevó a desarrollar una carrera internacional en China, donde su trabajo es reconocido, aceptado y apreciado.
Fictions in the Natural World: A Conversation with Cristina Iglesias
Cristina Iglesias’s large-scale sculptures and installations expose the roots of the natural world and connect them to concepts that influence our perception of it, including memory, cultural narratives, and time.
Intensities and Sensations: A Conversation with Juan Sorrentino
Sound and visual artist, musician, teacher, and curator, Juan Sorrentino seeks “to transmit the sensory through the corporeal.” His installations incorporate the viewer by appealing to multiple senses, motivating, as he says, “inquisitive interactions with objects and materials through sound, seduced by the phenomenology of the discovery.”
Cracks in the System: A Conversation with Agustina Woodgate
Agustina Woodgate, who divides her time between Buenos Aires, Miami, and Amsterdam, sees the human landscape—its spaces, systems, and representation of values—as a conceptual geography open to questioning and improvement.
