6 to 8 pm ET

Location
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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El Dorado Roundtable: Territory and Extraction

Art at Americas Society presents a roundtable with Scherezade Garcia, Pablo Helguera, and Julia Santos Solomon, moderated by Edward J. Sullivan.

6 to 8 pm ET

Location
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Overview

Art at Americas Society is pleased to present El Dorado Roundtable: Territory and Extraction. Join us in person for a roundtable discussion featuring the artists Scherezade Garcia, Pablo Helguera, and Julia Santos Solomon, and moderated by Edward J. Sullivan, co-curator of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, who will also present the opening remarks. The panel discussion will take place at Americas Society. 

This program is organized in conjunction with the current exhibition, El Dorado: Myths of Gold. 

Join us Thursday, October 19, 2023 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Americas Society

680 Park Ave.

New York, NY

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Panelists: 

  • Scherezade Garcia, artist working in painting, printmaking and installation
  • Pablo Helguera, performance artist, author, and educator 
  • Julia Santos Solomon, artist working in paintings, sculpture, and digital media 
  • Edward J. Sullivan, professor and co-curator of El Dorado: Myths of Gold

Speakers

Scherezade Garcia
Scherezade Garcia
Artist Working in Painting, Printmaking, and Installation.

Scherezade Garcia is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist whose work often explores allegories of history, migration, collective and ancestral memory, and cultural colonization and politics. A co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, she holds an AAS from...

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Pablo Helguera
Pablo Helguera
Performance artist, Author, and Educator

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and...

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Julia Santos Solomon
Julia Santos Solomon
Artist Working in Paintings, Sculpture, and Digital Media

Julia Santos Solomon is a contemporary Dominican artist whose works include paintings, sculptures and digital media. She has been engaged in the arts for over forty years. Her vision shaped generations of successful Latinx artists as a founding member of the Altos de Chavon...

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Edward J. Sullivan
Edward J. Sullivan
Professor and Co-Curator of El Dorado: Myths of Gold

Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard professor in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, New York University. A prominent scholar and curator in the field of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art, Sullivan is...

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Sponsors

The presentation of 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. 

Americas Society thanks Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires and Museo Amparo in Puebla for their collaboration in this project. 

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