Art at Americas Society Flag Series
Art at Americas Society Flag Series
Inaugurated in 2020, Art at Americas Society's Flag Series presents public artworks from artists across the Americas. Artists are invited to create works to hang from the flagpole placed on the exterior of our building on 68th Street and encounter New York City audiences. Five artists—from Guatemala, Chile, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Colombia—have presented their artworks in the series thus far.
Incorporating public artwork furthers Americas Society’s engagement with the surrounding community in New York, creating opportunities for new dialogues between artists of the Americas and our local audience.
El Dorado
Luis Romero, 2023
September 6, 2023 - May 18, 2024
Luis Romero created El Dorado (2023) after realizing that most flags and emblems in the Americas used images that referred to idyllic representations of territory.
The New Brazilian Flag #3
Raul Mourão, 2018
January 24 - July 22, 2023
Raul Mourão's presentation for the Winter and Spring of 2023, The New Brazilian Flag #3 (2018), is part of a series of works he started in 2018.
YOUR ISLAND HERE
nibia pastrana santiago, 2021
September 6 - December 21, 2022
For Americas Society’s Flag Series, nibia pastrana santiago creates a new version of “YOUR ISLAND HERE” (2019).
Estrella Distante
Felipe Mujica
February 8 - July 30, 2022
The two rotating flags Estrella Distante by Felipe Mujica (b. Santiago, Chile; 1974) propose an abstract reinterpretation of an ancient Mapuche flag, which consists of a white guñelve—an eight-pointed star—over a colorful background.
Amarica: Todas invertidas
Esvin Alarcón Lam, 2019
February 14 - May 16, 2020
The inaugural flag, Amarica: Todas invertidas by Esvin Alarcón Lam incorporates a version of each national flag from Latin America and the Caribbean washed in pink.
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Amalia Amoedo, Almeida e Dale Galeria de Arte, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Antonio Murzi, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.
