*The C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut presents the brand new exhibition Roberto Juarez: Crossing 5 A long time (Works Created Between 1983 and 2023), on view February 28 – April 15.
“That is the primary time an exhibition chronicles 5 distinct eras of artmaking by Roberto Juarez,” says Tiffany Benincasa, the proprietor and curator of C. Parker Gallery.
Benincasa provides: “We’re honored to current this group of beautiful work, illuminating his place within the canon of artwork historical past within the New York artwork world, for our tenth anniversary season.”
The gallery is situated at 409 Greenwich Avenue, close to Manhattan (only a 40-minute practice experience from Grand Central Terminal, the place certainly one of Juarez’s public fee murals majestically holds court docket within the Station Supervisor’s Workplace, pictured under).
New York Grand Central Terminal Public Fee“This choice of artworks represents the sensation of crossing by way of totally different eras of my work,” says Roberto Juarez.
“For me, it’s necessary that my love of portray comes by way of. I need the enjoyment in my work to at all times be important.”
“This new exhibition additionally factors forward, displaying how change and development are nonetheless the place I’m at in the present day,” provides Juarez.
Juarez’s inventive trajectory is the stuff of New York legends. In 1981, the East Village underground arts icon Ellen Stewart provided Juarez an artist studio in an deserted storage owned by the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Membership.
The house, on First Road between Bowery and Second Avenue, had no electrical energy and was provided to Juarez rent-free. Famend costume designer Gabriel Berry lent Juarez an extension twine from her studio to his, to supply gentle and heating.
That very same yr, Juarez was showcased within the New York/New Wave group present curated by Diego Cortez, who united the downtown scene for this history-making exhibition.
Cortez chosen 35 works by Juarez for the 1981 New York/New Wave present, granting him a complete wall throughout from a wall of works by Basquiat (a few of these unique 1981 works by Juarez have been chosen for an exhibition in the course of the Venice Biennale this yr).
Throughout the a long time that adopted, Juarez’s milestones embrace:
A Guggenheim Fellowship in Portray . . . the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award . . . the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome . . . certainly one of his work was chosen for the guide jacket cowl of the Whitney Biennale Catalog in 1987 . . . he was chosen for a public fee mural set up in Grand Central Station in 1997 (new.mta.information/company/arts-design/assortment/field-of-wild-flowers) . . . and several other artwork in public locations commissions, together with Miami Worldwide Airport.
Works by Juarez are within the collections of main museums, together with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (CA), the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio (NY), Perez Artwork Museum Miami, and the Denver Artwork Museum, amongst others.
Museums which have exhibited the work of Roberto Juarez embrace: Museum of Trendy Artwork (NY); Whitney Museum of Artwork/Whitney Biennial (NY); Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (LA); Brooklyn Museum; Peggy Guggenheim Assortment (Venice); MoMA PS1 (NY); the China Nationwide Academy of Portray; Stamford Museum (CT); El Museo del Barrio (NY); McNay Artwork Museum (TX); Boulder Museum of Modern Artwork (CO); Kemper Museum of Modern Artwork (KS); Portland Museum of Artwork (ME); Heart for the Fantastic Arts Miami; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Artwork; Austin Museum (TX); and Museum of Modern Artwork North Miami, amongst others.
Miami Worldwide Airport Public Fee
“Roberto Juarez is any person I had lengthy thought mixed a way of an engagement with the poetic, an engagement with the provocative,” stated Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Artwork Historical past at NYU.
“A use of coloration which brings to thoughts not solely photographs however feelings, in a means that could be very convincing – additionally permitting us to enter right into a sure unconscious emotional territory.”
“Roberto Juarez is any person I had lengthy thought mixed a way of an engagement with the poetic, an engagement with the provocative, a use of coloration which brings to thoughts not solely photographs however feelings, in a means that could be very convincing – additionally permitting us to enter right into a sure unconscious emotional territory,” provides Sullivan.
Edward J. Sullivan curated certainly one of Juarez’s solo museum exhibitions that included the artist’s Pater collection (pictured under, one of many Pater works within the present gallery present).
Sullivan has labored for greater than thirty years within the subject of Latin American and Caribbean artwork, and has influenced many artists and curators.
The Pater works had been produced over numerous years throughout which Juarez was coping with the dying of his father.
Learn extra concerning the artist and this collection on the evaluate by Clayton Kirking, former Chief of Artwork Data Assets for the New York Public Library – nadnowjournal.org/critiques/roberto-juarez-inspiration-and-process
Juarez’s mom was from Puerto Rico, and his father was from Mexico. He was born in 1952 in Chicago.
Juarez has a BFA from San Francisco Artwork Institute (1975), and Graduate Research on the College of California at Los Angeles (1978). Learn his full bio at this hyperlink.
For this new gallery present in Greenwich, CT, the gallery proprietor needed folks to be immersed in coloration.
“What I’m portray is usually tropical trying, and but typically created within the lifeless of winter in my studio in Canaan, NY the place we will have mountains of snow on a regular basis.”
“I feel a part of that is responding to reminiscence, to my expertise of one thing colourful. The severity of the winter expertise in my studio makes me take pleasure in colourful imagery much more,” provides Juarez.
The quotes above by Sullivan and Juarez and from this interview – robertojuarezstudio.com/roberto-juarez-interview-by-edward-sullivan.html.
Captured in Time
Juarez and his circle of artist associates had been typically captured in time by well-known photographers/artists of the period.
Pictured under are portraits of Juarez from the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties by David Seidner, Jack Pierson, and Bruce Weber.
Above left: Portrait of Roberto Juarez (1990) by Bruce Weber. Above proper: Portrait of Juarez at La MaMa Studio (1981) unknown photographer.
When Juarez was lately invited to current his work in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Time & House Restricted, the not-for-profit arts group serving the Hudson River Valley Area, he expressed his imaginative and prescient for artmaking and the way it continues to evolve —
“The sanctuary I envision by way of my artwork is a spot the place sudden issues occur, the place historic tales intertwine with up to date experiences, and the place the viewers can take part, nearly dance, with the work,” says Juarez.
“My intention is to ask viewers to attach with the wealthy cultural tapestry of human historical past and the boundless prospects of creativity.”
Pico Panorama, by Roberto Juarez (1984), paper.
Additionally featured within the new exhibition are works from the artist’s VP period – work impressed by the Vesica Piscis, a logo thought to bridge geometry and spirituality.
Used all through historical past in varied cultures and religions as a type of sacred geometry, Vesica Piscis shapes are objects of fascination as a result of their deep symbolism.
Painted in oil on wooden, the artist locations the circles in a diagonal line throughout the floor.
In these works, Juarez feels that the shapes created when his circles intersect symbolize to him the attention of God.
VP period works from the gallery present are pictured under.
In regards to the Gallery
C. Parker Gallery is a full-service artwork gallery and consultancy celebrating its tenth yr in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Representing an intensive assortment of works by conventional and up to date artists, the Gallery is a recipient of the Better of Greenwich Award and Better of the Gold Coast Award. The gallery’s stock options greater than 1,800 works from over 70 artists representing unique work, prints, sculptures, and collectibles.supply: William Spring | [email protected]
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