NYC: Three Can’t-Miss Latino Art Exhibits This Week
Image: Spear Torres y Gerardo Cloquell
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Remezcla’s weekly guide to Latin art openings in your city each week. Mingle with art admirers, collectors and casual passersby to check out these new works. And don’t forget to grab a free glass of wine…or three.
Queenies, Fades & Blunts: An Exhibition
A pop up exhibition by a collection of local artists of color will happen this Saturday preceding the recently featured Papi Juice party. MOJUICY (Mohammed Fayaz), QUILOMBO (Bryan Rodriguez), and KAREEM REID & KHALEB BROOKS will be the artists showing in the Queenies, Fades and Blunts exhbition. Fayaz is the artistic brain behind many of the Papi Juice flyers that show brown-skinned characters in cute outfits and various states of reverie. Check out the art at the “QTPOC beauty space” at Freeman Space this Saturday from 5 to 9pm then finish your night partying with the beautiful people over at Papi Juice. Visual art followed by djs and dancing sounds oh so stimulating.
Corografia
Six Puerto Rican artists with a knack for socially conscious mural-making and public street propaganda are showing their work at “COROGRAFIA Narrativa del Subcosciente” at ExitRoomNY. Artists include Acty2, Gerardo Cloquell, Rimx, Son, Nepo and Spear. It won’t be up for much longer as ExitRoom has a quick turnaround for new shows.
A Conversation with Tania Bruguera and Karen Finley
Tania Bruguera, the artist who performed a social experiment living as an immigrant for a year in Corona, Queens will be conversing with Karen Finley, another artist whose work was consistently censored and considered obscene, this Tuesday as a periphery event for the ‘Under the Same Sun’ Latin American art exhibit at the Guggenheim. You can hear them speak about their track records of rebellious creative resistance this Tuesday at 6:30pm.