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César Trasobares will present an illustrated overview of Carlos Alfonzo's development as an artist with an emphasis on the work he executed after leaving Cuba in 1980 until his death in Miami, 1991. The talk will cover the contexts of Alfonzo's body of work (painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics), including examples of the historic and anthropological sources of his iconography. César Traso...   [more]

Florida, especially Miami, has been the home to Caribbean neighborhoods of Cubans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Dominicans and Trinidadians (among others), who have shared, interacted, and expressed their cultural heritage through Art for many generations. This visual survey will introduce the Caribbean in Miami through its most contemporary artists, both resident here and from their homes on islands and...   [more]

With the rapid growth of activity in the field of art since the 1960's and the associated rise of professionalized practices, a conflict of hierarchisation has emerged between artists, critics, and curators that necessitates a re-evaluation of authorship, mediation, and status value. Taking Tyson Reeder's hyphenated artist-curator position as a jumping off point, Katerina Llanes, a graduate of t...   [more]