VP Curated Weekly Roundup No.9
This week's 17 Picks & Open Calls happening between NYC, LA and Miami — Plus a Q&A with one of our favorites artists of the moment, Jose Campos of Studio Lenca
NYC
July 5 @ 5pm: Rare Look Inside the Gertrude Whitney Studio: First Site of Whitney Museum Take a trip down New York’s rich cultural and art history with a tour of the original studio to Gertrude Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum
Closes July 6: Closing week John Lee: Hiding in Broad Daylight @ Bowery Gallery
Closes July 5: Closing week of Peter Gynd: Markers of Space and Time @ Space 776
Closes July 3: Heart Beats Dust @ Gaa Gallery
Closes July 3: Stanley Whitney By The Love of thos Unloved @ Gagosian Madison Ave
MIAMI
July 5 @ 6-9pm: Coral Gables Gallery Night The Americas Collection opens its doors to the public every first Friday of the month from 6-9 PM to enjoy complimentary drinks and music while you discover new art!
July 4 @ 6-9pm: Thursdays at PAMM: Fourth of July Festivities at Pérez Art Museum Miami – with the sounds by Taylor Byrd Band, art-making activities, happy hour specials
July 1 & 8 @ 7pm: Noche de Arte with Isaie “Zeek” Mathias @ InterContinental Miami Hotel
LA
July 5 @ 3pm: First Fridays at Art + Practice Join Art + Practice (A+P) on the first Friday of each month for a guided tour of our current exhibition, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Finding Soft Ground
First Week Open: Ian Stanton: Assessments AND Silent Spines Rives Granade & Vincent Pocsik @ OCHI
Final Week: Closing week of Darius Airo’s Mickey’s Mirror @ Abigail Ogilvy Gallery x WhiteBox.LA
Final Week: Closing week of Anne Kaferle’s Budding Plane solo exhibition @ Nüart Gallery Santa Monica location
Final Week: MEY group show the The Rendezvous at Nowita Art House
A MOMENT WITH STUDIO LENCA,
As an artist that finds peace and expression through their art around concepts of displacement, what feels like home to you?
Sometimes people have a hard time placing me because when I go back home to El Salvador, even though I was born there, people still think I am from the US as I particularly on the surface might not look very Latino. I started to realize that a lot of people actually share this feeling; so there’s a rootedness in this collective experience. I suppose I feel more at home within this in-between space, and my practice is really important for me to create my sense of grounding and identity. And when you spend a lot of your life identity undocumented, you kind of feel like you are living with a huge secret and that that place isn’t for you. I also had to create a space where I felt like I belonged, and growing up, that was dance.
When and how did you start pursuing art as a way of expressing your heritage?
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