Radames Juni Figueroa brings his melons to New York

Young Puerto Rican artist, Radames "Juni" Figueroa will be presenting some of his works in "Circus of Stillness... the power over wild beasts". It is part of The Watermill's Center Annual Summer Benefit & Auction in New York. The event will be from 6:00pm-11:59pm.

With his characteristic approach of embracing people to feel the life in the tropics, Juni presents the audience a cool, unique and fun experience along his favorite friends; pineapples and melons. One of his noted pieces will include a fabric-type artwork from his series "Bed paintings" that was developed a few years ago in which characters appeared immersed in fruits. In this particular piece we can see Juni with a knife in his mouth, swimming between melons with contagious happiness and freedom.

The Watermill Center is an arts organization developed by Robert Wilson with a mission to support the works of artists around the world and expose them to international institutions. Their 20,000 square foot facility provides a space for artist to live and work to improve their talents and create unique performance pieces by merging them with humanities, sciences and visual arts.  

For more information about Juni, go to Castro Barreto Collection.
(Photos: Watermill Center and artist)

Hector Madera: cutting and mixing in New York

Photo: courtesy of the artist.

 

Puerto Rican artist Hector Madera presented today various works in the exhibition CUT N’ MIX: Contemporary Collage at El Museo del Barrio in New York. The most noted pieces are 3 big collages with important personalities in the world of art like Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. With his distinctive collage techniques, he created wrestling-type masks covering their faces with tape. It gave the audience a sense of doubt as if this people may also had normal lives with their ups and downs like everybody else. It also gives the characters an underworld mystique like they are part of a gang.

 

Hector Madera was born in 1977 and he lives and works in New York. His works had always played with a focal point; the creation of ideas and and how they can be easily tossed out. Paper is the best way to explain this concept, thanks to its malleability and multiple uses and Hector uses every bit of it. An example of this can be seen in one of his newest exhibitions in Puerto Rico: Disgraceful Episodes, Grandiose Moments, Insignificant Achievements and Everything in Between, where he presented mini sculptures made by discarded papers with ball shapes, emulating the action of making a ball with a bunch of used papers and throwing them in the trash. His works has been presented in Spain, London and France and is currently represented by gallery Zawahra-Alejandro.

 

For more information about other Puerto Rican artists go to: Coleccion Castro Barreto

Puerto Rican Artist Gamaliel Rodriguez At Bronx Museum

The Bronx Museum of Arts presented in July 2015 the third (AIM) Biennial curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier. Artist in the Marketplace is an initiative from the museum to present 72 emerging artists currently living and working in New York. They offer the participants a 13-week seminar that addresses practical concerns, and cultivates networking opportunities.

Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez is one of the participants with his artwork "Figure 1730", showing an industrial structure surrounded by smoke. This piece was also exhibited at Aluna Foundation in the show Affective Architectures (December 6, 2014).