ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
A new series of 70 Download & Donate digital drawings and a short film.
OCCASIONAL LANDSCAPES
SAMUEL RIERA
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
AILEN MALETA
RIGO (JOSÉ RIGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ CAMACHO)
VAGABUNDUS DREAMS
Please stop by to see our new window gallery featuring several new entries to the world of Planeta Sandra. In the colorful Vagabundus' minds we find their dreams are in black & white. These works, done in quarantine, are a marked departure from the visual jubilance of her previous work.
Exhibition on view from 02/03/2021 thru 02/14/2021.
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
ALAIN JIMÉNEZ SANTANA
Alain Jiménez Santana was born in Villa Clara, Cuba in 1986. He studied Plastic Arts at the School of Art Instructors (EIA), in Santa Clara, Cuba in 2001 through 2005 and also at Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba from 2013 through 2015.
Alain's work communicates subconsciously incorporating evocative symbolism to be understood on a visceral level. He uses a dark pallet contrasted with vivid colors and surreal imagery to evoke a psychological and emotional response. Ideas of deception, illusion and emotional transience are explored.
"For me art is a way of life and I'm not interested in giving a concept or a fixed idea to my work, I'm not interested in giving my pieces a title, if I give them a name it would simply be a random word that would have nothing to do with the piece. The word has no importance whatsoever, what is important is the spirit of the piece and the total freedom of the piece itself and the individual who looks at it. In summary: my work has to do with spontaneity, with action, gesture, immediacy, life, absurdity, it does not present any rigid pattern or principle, I can work with any support and material, it does not look for logic."
He currently lives and works in Havana, Cuba.
FEATURED WORKS
Untitled, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas 27 1/4"W x 25 1/2"H
A-Isla-Das, 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 27 3/4”W x 25 3/4”H
Seaside Silhouette, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 27”W x 25”H
Untitled, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas 27 1/4"W x 25 1/2"H