The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean Pocket Book

The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean Pocket Book

This is a publication released to accompany Americas Society’s exhibition focused on Asian diasporic artists from Latin America and the Caribbean.

This fully illustrated publication accompanies Americas Society exhibition The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean.

The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean centers the artistic production of the Asian diaspora in the regions from the 1940s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary art, the exhibition showcases the work of thirty artists from fifteen countries working in a range of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, to shed light into strategies and themes that resonate across a wide array of Asian diasporic practice throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. 

The exhibition embraces and performs the multiple and interrelated meanings embedded in the notion of appearance, inspired by Japanese Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura’s 1975 print by the same title. From acts of appearing and becoming visible—including different types of apparitions—to the idea of impressions and physical resemblance, artists in the show grapple with the complexities of negotiating (in)visibility, revisiting and remaking family archives and stories, and engaging and reconfiguring spiritual practices. The show also addresses abstraction as a formal strategy linked to language, the senses, and the body in the context of the Americas’ postwar art. 

Conceived as an appearance in and of itself, the show sheds light on the often-overlooked experiences and artistic trajectories of Asian diasporic subjects and collectives across Latin America and the Caribbean, casting them as both grounded in their particular context and constitutive of broader transnational histories.

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the appearance

Table of contents 

  • Foreword by Susan Segal 
  • Expanding the Hemisphere by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 
  • The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean by Tie Jojima and Yudi Rafael 
  • Works
  • Author Biographies 
  • Credits 
  • Acknowledgments 

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalog, please contact: art@as-coa.org or order on Amazon.

This exhibition is curated by Tie Jojima and Yudi Rafael.

Visual Arts exhibition series editors: Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

Associate editor: Tie Jojima

Funders

Major support for The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean is provided by Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas). The project is also made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Cowles Charitable Trust, the Japan Foundation, Instituto Guimarães Rosa, Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer, and the Garcia Family Foundation. In-kind support is provided by Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte. 

Americas Society acknowledges the continued 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.

Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes Pocket Book

Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes Pocket Book

This fully illustrated publication accompanies the Americas Society exhibition on the Argentine artist that runs from June 5 through July 27, 2024.

This fully illustrated publication accompanies Americas Society exhibition Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes, the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Argentine artist in New York. 

Alejandra Seeber (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a painter who centers representations of various spaces to explore the tension between representation and abstraction in painting. Seeber utilizes bold color and gesture to examine liminal spaces within built and domestic environments. Later work veers further into abstraction, implementing visual devices like Rorschach drawings or knit grids to structure the composition. 

The exhibition will pair these paintings with Seeber’s contemporary explorations of the built landscape with an installation. This survey of her work is organized around a playable golf course installed inside the gallery space in which visitors will be invited to play golf as they walk through the show. The golf obstacles become active sculptures in the exhibition, creating porous boundaries between artwork and audience. This playful environment manifests the explorations of edges, doorways, windows, and borders in the artist’s painting. As they play, visitors will be able to trace Seeber’s artistic trajectory and see how her interventions in the form and practice of painting continue to this day.

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Seeber

Table of contents 

  • Foreword by Susan Segal 
  • The Interior and the Exterior by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 
  • Chaos and Care: On Alejandra Seeber’s Work by Dean Daderko
  •  All that Seeber Allows by Mariano Lōpez Seoane 
  • Works 
  • Biographies 
  • Credits 
  • Acknowledgments 

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalog, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org or order on Amazon.

The exhibition is curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 

Visual Arts exhibition series editors: Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

Associate editor: Tie Jojima 

Funders

We thank all the lenders to the exhibition. We are especially grateful to Iair Rosenkranz and Florencia Cherñajovsky for making the minigolf installation possible and to Iván Petruschansky Fernandez for his assistance at Alejandra Seeber Studio. Special thanks also to Serena Brunswig, Mariano Farinaccio, Margaux Guerrien, Ana Granel, Wolfgang Häusler. Nicolás Kaplun, Syd Krochmalny, Peter Mikeal, Nahuel Ortiz Vidal, Alec Oxenford, Carolina Pinciroli, Maya Ribeiro and Adriana Rosenberg. 

Major support for Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes is provided by Globant. The project is also made possible by GMA Capital, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and Ariel Sigal. In-kind support is provided by Barro Arte Contemporáneo. 

Americas Society acknowledges the continued 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, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Patricia Ruiz- Healy, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.

El Dorado: A Reader

El Dorado: A Reader

Published with the exhibition El Dorado: Myths of Gold, the book investigates how a legend as malleable as gold itself has alchemized from myth to reality.

El Dorado: A Reader investigates the ways that El Dorado—a legend as malleable as gold itself—has alchemized from myth to reality, deconstructing the ancient tale and allowing fresh narratives to surge forth. Ranging from commissioned essays by contemporary scholars to selected historical excerpts by explorers such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, as well as literary productions by Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, these texts illustrate the way the legend has morphed and transfigured, but never lost its ethos. El Dorado: A Reader continues the search for El Dorado and investigates how it has shaped the continent’s history and future. 

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The publication of El Dorado: A Reader was possible with major support of Rio Tinto. It was published in conjunction with the exhibition, El Dorado: Myths of Gold.

WITH ESSAYS BY 
  • Timothy Alborn
  • Sergio Baur 
  • James Doyle
  • Ana M. Franco 
  • Milton Hatoum 
  • Cristóbal Jácome-Moreno 
  • Jennifer Josten 
  • Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert 
  • Sean Nesselrode Moncada 
  • Joanne Pillsbury 
  • Jennifer Raab 
  • Charlotte Rogers 
  • Gabriela Siracusano 
  • Edward J. Sullivan 
HISTORICAL TEXTS BY 
  • Cristobál de Acuña 
  • Pedro de Aguado
  • Richard Francis Burton 
  • Luis Capoche 
  • Pedro de Castañeda 
  • Bartolomé de las Casas 
  • Juan de Castellanos 
  • Don Manuel Centurion 
  • Hernán Cortés 
  • Albrecht Dürer 
  • Robert Harcourt 
  • Antonio de Herrera 
  • Alexander von Humboldt 
  • Lawrence Kemys 
  • Peter Martyr d’Anghiera 
  • John Milton 
  • Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala 
  • Sir Walter Raleigh 
  • Juan Rodríguez Freyle 
  • Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua Collaborators 
  • Pedro Simon Unknown Aztec Writer 
  • Inca Garcilaso de la Vega 
  • Amerigo Vespucci Voltaire 
  • Titu Cusi Yupanqui 
Bentley and Robert H. Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of the Guianas, 1840; Ernest Charton de Treville, Guayaquil, 1849; Johann Moritz Rugendas, View of Valparaíso, 1842. Design Estudio Herrera.
El Dorado: Myths of Gold

The group exhibition on the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas ran from January 24 through May 18, 2024.

Funders

El Dorado: A Reader was possible with the major support of  

The presentation of the exhibition El Dorado: Myths of Gold and related programming has been made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

Additional support was provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Since 2020, Americas Society, Fundación PROA, and Museo Amparo have been joining efforts to conceptualize and bring to life the Project El Dorado, resulting in a convening, as well as a series of publications and exhibitions different for each institution (Proa 2023, Amparo 2024).

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.

El Dorado: Myths of Gold Exhibition Catalog

El Dorado: Myths of Gold Exhibition Catalog

This is a publication released to accompany an Americas Society exhibition exploring the legend as a foundational myth of the Americas.

El Dorado: Myths of Gold Exhibition Catalog

By Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Edward J. Sullivan

This fully illustrated catalog accompanies the two-part group exhibition at Americas Society El Dorado: Myths of Gold, exploring the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas. The exhibition presents more than sixty artists, from the pre-Hispanic period to the contemporary era, that challenge, reinforce, and question the continuity and effects of the myth in the Americas into the present. 

Table of contents: 

  • Foreword by Susan Segal 
  • Introduction by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 
  • El Dorado: Myths of Gold by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Edward J. Sullivan
  • Gold, Value, and the Body 
  • Religion and Transcendence
  • Maps and Territory 
  • Extraction and Wealth 
  • List of Contributors 
  • Acknowledgments 

Price: $25. Purchase the catalogue. 

To accompany this exhibition, Americas Society will publish a reader on El Dorado featuring essays by more than fourteen scholars as well as primary sources. This new anthology will be published in early 2024. 

Artists in the show include: Olga de Amaral, Denilson Baniwa, Bruno Baptistelli, Andrés Bedoya, Charles Bentley, Juan Brenner, Fernando Bryce, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Leda Catunda, Chiriquí artist, Coclé artists, william cordova, Juan Covelli, Covens & Mortier, Theodor De Bry, Dario Escobar, Scherezade Garcia, Anna Bella Geiger, Mathias Goeritz, Joaquín Gutiérrez, Thomas Hariot, John Harris, Pablo Helguera, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Alfredo Jaar, Nancy La Rosa & Juan Salas Carreño, Lambayeque artist, Jaime Lauriano, Mariano León, Hew Locke, Karen Lofgren, Juan Pedro López, Liliana Maresca, Esperanza Mayobre, Sara Mejia Kriendler, Ana María Millán, Marta Minujín, Herman Moll, Priscilla Monge, Santiago Montoya, Carlos Motta, Eamon Ore-Giron, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Ebony G. Patterson, Rolando Peña, José Antonio Peñaloza, Armando Queiroz, Ronny Quevedo, Mazenett Quiroga, Quimbaya style artist, Freddy Rodríguez, Carlos Rojas, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Luis Romero, Harmonia Rosales, Johann Moritz Rugendas, Tiago Sant’Ana, Julia Santos Solomon, Vicente Telles, Pedro Terán, Ernest Charton de Treville, Moara Tupinambá, Veraguas artist, Laura Vinci, and Alberta Whittle

Funders

The presentation of El Dorado and related programming has been made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

Additional support was provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Since 2020, Americas Society, Fundación PROA, and Museo Amparo have been joining efforts to conceptualize and bring to life the Project El Dorado, resulting in a convening, as well as a series of publications and exhibitions different for each institution (Proa 2023, Amparo 2024).

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.

Bentley and Robert H. Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of the Guianas, 1840; Ernest Charton de Treville, Guayaquil, 1849; Johann Moritz Rugendas, View of Valparaíso, 1842. Design Estudio Herrera.
El Dorado: Myths of Gold

The group exhibition on the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas ran from January 24 through May 18, 2024.

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book

This is a publication released to accompany Americas Society exhibition on the Chilean visual and performance artist.

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book 

The exhibition co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Rachel Remick 

Visual Arts exhibition series editors: Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

Associate editor: Tie Jojima 

This fully illustrated publication accompanies Americas Society exhibition Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body. 

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body is the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in New York. Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist, who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary dance since her moving to New York in the early 1960s. She became an integral figure of the experimental downtown arts scene in 1970s New York, having collaborated with many American and international artists. In her solo and group performances, Palacios Whitman developed her own choreographic language, which privileged the participation of untrained performers, embraced humor and unexpected elements, and incorporated found objects and ephemeral props.

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body will revisit these landmark performances with never-before-seen material from the artist’s archives alongside sketches, video and photographic documentation, and new large scale works on paper. Central to the presentation will be the restaging of Palacios Whitman’s key historical works. 

 

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Table of contents 

  • Foreword by Susan Segal 
  • Sylvia Palacios Whitman’s Stories by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 
  • Visual Performance in the Work of Sylvia Palacios Whitman by Jennifer McColl Crozier 
  • To Draw a Line with the Body by Rachel Remick 
  • Works 
  • Exhibition History 
  • Author Biographies 
  • Credits 
  • Acknowledgments 

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You can purchase the catalogue here.

Funders

The presentation of Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body is made possible by generous support from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of Chile. 

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle contributors: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.

Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth Pocket Book

Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth Pocket Book

This is a publication released to accompany Americas Society exhibition on the visionary Afro-Brazilian artist.

Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth Pocket Book

By Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Ricardo Resende, and Javier Téllez. 

Associate editor: Tie Jojima

This fully illustrated publication accompanies Americas Society exhibition Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth. 

Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth, the first solo exhibition in the United States of Bispo do Rosario (b. 1909, Japaratuba, d. 1989, Rio de Janeiro), an Afro-Brazilian artist who created more than one thousand objects from within his confinement at Colônia Juliano Moreira, a psychiatric institution in Rio de Janeiro where he lived most of his life. The exhibition is bringing together iconic artworks by Bispo, including hand-embroidered textiles with assorted attached elements, mixed-media sculptures, and his signature “Annunciation Garment,” his best-known work. 

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Museu Bispo do Rosario Arte Contemporânea in Rio de Janeiro, and is co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Ricardo Resende, and Javier Téllez, with Tie Jojima. 

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Table of contents 

  • Foreword by Susan Segal 
  • Foreword by Raquel Fernandez 
  • Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials On Earth, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Ricardo Resende, and Javier Téllez 
  • Works
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography
  • Author Biographies
  • Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalog, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Funders

Major support for the exhibition is provided by Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte. 

The presentation of Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

Additional support comes from the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, the Cowles Charitable Trust, the Garcia Family Foundation, and the Consulate General of Brazil in New York. 

In-kind support is provided by Ternium Brazil. 

With thanks to Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires. 

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle contributors: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.

Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime Pocket Book

Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime Pocket Book

This is a pocket book released to accompany the Americas Society exhibition done in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.

Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime Pocket Book Pocket Book

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta

This is a fully illustrated pocket book released in both English and Spanish editions to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society, curated by Marina Reyes Franco.

Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under The Visitor Economy Regime investigates the ideas of natural and fiscal paradise, and the geographical coincidence of these concepts within the Caribbean region, where tourism and finance form the “visitor economy regime.” Tropical is Political features works by 19 contemporary artists from the Caribbean and its diasporas, including Allora & Calzadilla, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Gwladys Gambie, Abigail Hadeed, Joiri Minaya, José Morbán, Dave Smith, Yiyo Tirado, Oneika Russell, among others. Through video, installation, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition will underline the effects of tourism and finance on subjects including economic policy, self-image, and artistic production.

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Learn more about exhibition Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under The Visitor Economy Regime at Americas Society.

Table of contents

  • Foreword by Susan Segal
  • Foreword by Marianne Ramírez Aponte
  • Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime by Marina Reyes Franco
  • Works
  • Further Reading
  • Author Biography
  • Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Funders

Major support for the exhibition in both Americas Society and MAC is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The presentation of Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; by Etant donnés Contemporary Art, a program from Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, with support from the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, Ford Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, CHANEL, and ADAGP; and by the Smart Family Foundation of New York.

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle contributors: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Sharon Schultz, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan. The presentation of the exhibition at MAC in San Juan is made possible by support from Teiger Foundation.

Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico Pocket Book

Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico Pocket Book

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta, this is a pocket book released to accompany the Americas Society exhibition on the Mexican artist.

Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico Pocket Book

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

This is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Rachel Remick.

Geles Cabrera, the subject of the Americas Society exhibition, was born in Mexico City in 1926. Cabrera studied at Mexico’s Academia Nacional de San Carlos and La Esmeralda art schools, where she began working in sculpture. At the time, sculpture was almost exclusively practiced by male artists, and women were dissuaded from pursuing a career in this discipline. However, Cabrera persisted and by 1949, had her first solo exhibition at the Mont-Orendáin Gallery in Mexico City. Cabrera found artistic success in the 1950s alongside the Generación de la Ruptura (“Breakaway Generation”), a grouping of Mexican artists who, from the 1950s onward, diverged from the legacies of Mexican muralism. Cabrera’s abstracted human forms aligned with shifts in Mexican art away from representation and nationalism—embodied in muralism—toward abstraction and individualism.

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Table of contents

  • Foreword by Susan Segal
  • A Museum of One’s Own by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
  • Carving Life into Stone by Rachel Remick
  • Hacia la Danza: Sculpture, Dance, and the City by Tie Jojima
  • Works
  • Chronology by Tie Jojima
  • Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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You can purchase the catalogue here.

Funders

The presentation of Geles Cabrera is made possible by the generous support from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation. The project is also supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is provided by the Smart Family Foundation, the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and Galería Agustina Ferreyra.

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle contributors: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.

This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975

This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975

This publication present the stories of Latin American artists who migrated to New York City in the mid-sixties.

Edited by Tie Jojima and Karen Marta

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This Must be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 is the first publication to present the stories of Latin American artists who migrated to New York City in the mid-sixties and shaped the cultural production of that era. These artists anchored collaborative networks of artistic and political activity, embracing issues of individual and diasporic identity and experimenting with an array of artistic media as they contended with formidable structural barriers.

Published in the context of Americas Society’s exhibition This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, this fully illustrated volume compiles testimonies of these artists from interviews and primary sources, rare archival material, photographs, images of artworks, sketches, and press clippings into a critical reevaluation of contemporary American art in its formation. This Must be the Place offers readers a dynamic, candid, and historically rich perspective on the contributions of Latin American artists in shaping New York into the global art center it is today.

This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975 is a co-publication by Americas Society and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Founded in 2011, ISLAA is committed to advancing scholarship and public engagement with art from Latin America through its program of exhibitions, publications, lectures, and institutional partnerships. To learn more, visit islaa.org.

Table of Contents:

  • Forward, Susan Segal, President and CEO, AS/COA
  • Introduction, Aimé Iglesias Lukin
  • Thematic Chapters
    • The City
    • Communities and Institutions
    • Politics, Identity, and the Body
  • “Cildo Meireles in New York: Coca-Cola Bottles and Subway Tokens,” Harper Montgomery
  • “Año Cero: 1969,” Yasmin Ramirez
  • “Abdias do Nascimento and His Contemporaries: Black Power and Art in New York City,” Abigail Lapin Dardashti
  • Artists Biographies
  • Contributors Biographies
  • Sources
  • Further Reading
  • Photo Credits
  • Acknowledgements

The presentation of This Must Be the Place is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is provided by the Smart Family Foundation of New York, Fundación Ama Amoedo, and The Cowles Charitable Trust.

The release of the book This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975 is made possible by the support of our co-publisher, ISLAA.

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer and Jeanette van Campenhout, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.

  

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 Pocket Book

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 Pocket Book

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta, this fully illustrated pocket book accompanies the Americas Society exhibition of the same name.

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

This is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin.

The two-part group exhibition This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, explores the work of a generation of migrants who created and exhibited in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Featuring installation, photography, video art, painting, and archival material, the exhibition brings together a generation that actively participated in experimental artistic movements while pushing forward their own visual languages and ideas, with works exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile, and nostalgia. Additionally, the exhibition highlights the important contributions and solidarity initiatives of groups and collectives, testimony of these artists effort to create community and to forge a space for themselves. Some of them include CHARAS, Taller Boricua, Latin American Fair of Opinion, An Evening with Salvador Allende Concert, Brigada Ramona Parra, Contrabienal, Cha/Cha/Cha, Young Filmmakers Foundation, Young Lords, and El Museo del Barrio.

Featuring installation, photography, video works, painting, and archival material, the exhibition brings together a generation that actively participated in experimental artistic movements pushing forward their own languages and ideas. The artists largely contributed to the decade’s transformation of art from the Americas and around the world.

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Table of contents:

  • Foreword by Susan Segal
  • This Must Be the Place: Reimagining Community in New York City by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
  • Works
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Exhibition Checklist
  • Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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The presentation of This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is provided by Fundación Ama Amoedo, the Smart Family Foundation of New York, and The Cowles Charitable Trust.

To accompany this exhibition Americas Society will release the book This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965-75 with the support of our co-publisher, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer and Jeanette van Campenhout, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.