The Hudson Valley’s Chronogram provides extra details about “Metaphors”—an exhibition of works by artists Rodríguez Calero (Puerto Rico), Josh Kramb (United States), Eliezer Parrilla (Puerto Rico), Nitza Tufiño (Mexico/Puerto Rico)—the West Strand Artwork Gallery, and its founders and curators of this exhibition, Isabel and Julio Nazario. The gallery will host a reception this Saturday, Could 7, from 4:00 to six:00pm. The West Strand Artwork Gallery is positioned at 29 West Strand Avenue, Rondout, Historic District, Kingston, New York. [See previous post: Metaphors: Reception May 7.] The Chronogram studies:
For many people, the previous two years have been a profound time of isolation, worry, and uncertainty. These are among the many many themes expressed effectively in a surrealist aesthetic, a creative exploration of the unconscious that emerged after the collective trauma of World Struggle 1.
“Metaphors,” an exhibition of 4 artists opening Could 7 at West Strand Artwork Gallery in Kingston’s historic Rondout, explores the unconscious utilizing the metaphors and narratives of our present cultural panorama. The work, collages, drawings, and sculptures of the 4 artists—Rodriguez Calero, Josh Kramb, Eliezer Parrilla, and Nitza Tufiño—handle points comparable to gender and racial boundaries, emotional states of thoughts, Jungian archetypes, and the unconscious, in addition to discover historic, cultural, and political context.
“We chosen works primarily based on the temper and psychological way of thinking of the artist and their work,” says West Strand Artwork Gallery’s co-director Isabel Alvarez Nazario, an artist, curator, and specialist in Caribbean artwork historical past who based the gallery along with her accomplice, photographer and printmaker Julio Nazario.
“We discovered this group of artists share a surrealistic strategy to metaphors, however their types are totally different,” she says. “We seemed for artists whose work is vital at this second in time— gender id, popping out of isolation, and different themes.”
The exhibition kicks off the second season for West Strand Artwork Gallery, which the Nazarios, who moved to Kingston 4 years in the past, based after recognizing the proper location of their neighborhood. “We stay on Abeel Avenue, and got here down to take a seat on the bench at Ship to Shore,” Alvarez Nazario says. “We’d been pondering of opening a gallery, and we wished it down by the river. As we had been discussing it on the bench, we seemed up and noticed this big “For Lease” signal within the window.”
The primary exhibition of West Strand Artwork Gallery in 2021 featured their personal assortment of prints and images, primarily by artists of shade. The gallery exhibits the work of about 35 to 45 artists per season, with particular emphasis on artists of shade, together with Latino, Black, Asian, African, and Caribbean voices. Each of the administrators are anticipating an ideal season with new gallerist Sikena Khadish.
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[Shown above: a print by Nitza Tufiño.]
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See extra in regards to the artists at http://rodzcalero.com/, https://www.eliezerparrilla.com/, http://www.nitzatufino.com/