[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] “Within the Thoughts’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba,” curated by Amy Galpin, will probably be on view from September 24, 2022, to January 15, 2023, on the Patricia & Phillip Frost Artwork Museum, Florida Worldwide College (Modesto Maidique Campus, 10975 SW seventeenth Road, Miami, Florida.) The opening takes place on September 24, from 4:00 to 7:00pm (EST). The museum may even host a Curator Tour on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, from 12:00 to 1:00pm (EST).
The exhibition’s catalog featured essays by Jorge Duany and Katherine Manthorne, and consists of interviews with artists Juana Valdés and Carlos Martiel, performed by Donette Francis and Elvia Rosa Castro.
Description: Within the Thoughts’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba examines how Cuban and U.S. painters energetic largely from 1850 to 1910 projected and injected concepts about Cuba into panorama portray as a mirrored image of political, social, and ideological adjustments in each nations. Whereas some artists depicted a pastoral, serene Cuba, others acknowledged the historical past of race and slavery and created works that equate panorama to nationalism. Multilayered readings present in historic landscapes pictured by U.S. artists replicate the complicated methods wherein Cuba has been considered and imagined by its skeptical northern neighbors. U.S. artists William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and Willard Metcalf will probably be featured alongside up to date artists reminiscent of Juan Carlos Alom, María Magdalena Campos Pons, and Juana Valdés. Whereas works by Emilio Perez and Lilian Garcia Roig reply to historic depictions of panorama, whereas works by Carlos Martiel and Carrie Mae Weems intervene within the historic tropes and ideologies current within the landscapes featured within the exhibition. Different artists featured within the exhibition embrace Esteban Chartrand, Miguel Melero Rodriguez, Valentín Sanz Carta, Yoan Capote, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Diana Fonseca Quiñones, Alejandro Campins, and Glexis Novoa.
Within the Thoughts’s Eye is accompanied by a list revealed by Giles, Ltd. that includes essays by Jorge Duany, Katherine Manthorne, and interviews with artists Juana Valdés and Carlos Martiel performed by Donette Francis and Elvia Rosa Castro.
This exhibition and catalogue are made doable by the Terra Basis for American Artwork. Further beneficiant help for the exhibition is supplied by Ramón and Nercys Cernuda and the Gazitua household.
For extra info, see https://frost.fiu.edu/exhibitions-events/occasions/2022/09/in-the-minds-eye.html
[Shown above: Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Governor’s Wife, Santiago de Cuba, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1885, 11 5/8 x 19 inches, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Museum Appropriation Fund.]