Monday, November 29, 2010

Latino Art Now, third Biennial National Conference, LA 2010

The New Wave/La Nueva Ola
Since 2005, The Latino Art Now! Conference has become a important forum for artists, art professionals, educators, scholars, critics, collectors, and art dealers. Through dialogue in panels, and the presentation of academic scholarship, the conference examines the contemporary state of Latino art in the United States and the world. We had the opportunity of presenting The Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA at the conference!! It was a great opportunity and wonderful experience!!! to share, receive feedback from people we highly respect, to mingle with artists friends. We are so grateful!! in the photos Eduardo Diaz (Smithsonian Latino Center), E. Carmen Ramos (Smithsonian Latino Center), Pepe Coronado (Coronado Studios), Iliana Emilia(artist), myself, Freddy (artist), and Fernando Salicruz (Taller Boricua)





Monday, November 8, 2010

Manifestaciones, the Dominican-York projecto grafica@The Dominican Studies Institute, City College of NY

This printmaking project was born by the urge to document the 
graphic work of artists of Dominican descent living, and working in 
New York.
These group of artists, working collectively have developed not only 
a historical printmaking portfolio,but also a contemporary visual 
comment on the diverse migration experience of the Dominican 
community.There is a diversity of voices aesthetically and in the 
variety techniques, from etching, lithograph,block, mixed media to 
silkscreen.


The Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA is a printmaking collective of 
twelve artists of Dominican
descent, who live and work in and around New York City.

Headed by Pepe Coronado, the artists of the collective are: Carlos 
Almonte, Pepe Coronado,
Rene De Los Santos, iliana emilia Garcia, Reynaldo Garcia Pantaleon, 
Scherezade Garcia, Alex Guerrero,
Luanda Lozano, Miguel Luciano, Chiqui Mendoza, Moses Ros-Suarez, and 
Rider Urena.

Our first project is a print portfolio of twelve images in an 
edition of twenty-five called ”MANIFESTACIONES”,
a collection of imagery depicting cultural markers in the form of 
customs, beliefs, icons and “maƱas”
Dominicanas (Dominican idiosincracies)

The mission of the Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA is:

-to advance the state of contemporary Dominican American graphic 
arts through a rich and varied
collaboration.
-to engage in research and development of innovative and 
contemporary graphic ideas and techniques.
-to create prints using a variety of techniques from traditional to 
the newest, safest and cleanest
processes of today.
-to lead in creating new venues for exchange of ideas and cultures
-to broaden the public’s knowledge of modern Dominican culture 
through exhibitions, lectures, and
workshops.
-to document and manifest the graphic tradition in the Dominican 
Republic by creating an entity
solely focused in its
history and development
-to create captivating pieces of art
scherezade garcia

"Theories on Freedom" @ City College from Nov 8th to Nov 11th, 2010