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
R10
APPLE IN MY HEAD
The first New York solo exhibition by Cuban artist Jorge Rodríguez Diez (R10), Apple In My Head was a pop-up exhibit on display in the Lazy Susan Gallery at 191 Henry Street which ran from November 3rd - November 14th, 2018.
Apple in My Head, the New York premiere exhibition of Cuban artist and designer Jorge Rodríguez Diez, known as R10, presents a group of ten new works, which, as the title suggests, were created with NYC in mind. Looking to deepen his personal understanding of Cuban history and society, this series builds on the artist’s previous explorations which began with the Special Period, examined through the lens of current world events focused by his almost compulsive daily monitoring of the news.
In his characteristic style, R10 creates decodable poster-like paintings using 50’s era nostalgic imagery, text and a thoughtfully considered color palette to conjure atmospheres of lost decades of Cuban culture. Puzzling you is the nature of R10’s game. As a trained Graphic Designer, he begins with a clear idea, concisely communicated yet purposefully ambiguous; at times satirical, at times sincere, and uses layers of meaning so the viewer can choose what they are seeing and what the images reveal. Apple in My Head’s images mix memories of the past with current anxieties and hopes for the future with a shadow of uncertainty.
As noted by the Cuban art critic, Nelson Herrera Ysla, in his essay, Todo mezclado en R10 (Everything Mixed in R10)*:
R10's works ‘explore the relationships between the universe of graphic design, drawing, and painting. His work is focused on reformulating and activating those relationships that were lost for decades in Cuba due to the unquestionable primacy that painting always had over other expressions of our visual culture. In this way, the artist has been resolute in activating the multiple senses that emerge from the integration of different visual universes, as well as in trying to erase the historically established borders between them, creating a new esthetic dimension rarely seen in our cultural environment…The integration that the artist makes of graphic and pictorial elements is solid in each of his works: nothing is created randomly, making them difficult to classify as drawings, posters, or paintings, because they result in being all of these at the same time, everything mixed, making his works unique within the Cuban art scene.’
Works by Jorge Rodríguez Diez (R10) b.1969, have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain, China, Germany and South Korea including a solo show at Icheri Secher Modern Art Center in Azerbaijan and most recently at the Marta Hewitt Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. His work has been published in Art OnCuba magazine and on www.RollingStone.com. R10 studied at the Technical Institute of Industrial Design and the Superior Institute of Design in Havana.
Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present this solo pop-up exhibition at Lazy Susan Gallery, 191 Henry Street. Opening Party, Saturday, November 3rd, 6-8pm. The artist will present a talk at 5pm.
* Text translated from the original Spanish
Press Release:
R10 creates decodable poster-like paintings using 50’s era nostalgic imagery, text and a thoughtfully considered color palette to conjure atmospheres of lost decades of Cuban culture. Puzzling you is the nature of R10’s game. As a trained Graphic Designer, he begins with a clear idea, concisely communicated yet purposefully ambiguous; at times satirical, at times sincere, he uses layers of meaning so the viewer can choose what they are seeing and what the images reveal. Apple in My Head’s images mix memories of the past with current anxieties and hopes for the future in a shadow of uncertainty.
Works by Jorge Rodríguez Diez (R10) b.1969, have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain, China, Germany and South Korea including a solo show at Icheri Secher Modern Art Center in Azerbaijan and most recently at the Marta Hewitt Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. R10 studied at the Technical Institute of Industrial Design and the Superior Institute of Design in Havana.
Rich High, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
55" x 39"
The Eight Years Itch, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
32" x 47"
I Love New York, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 47"
Meet The Locals, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
32" x 47"
SOLD
A Political Break, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 48"
The Very Last Push, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 52"
In The Dark of the Night, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
39" x 52"
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Original Project, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
32" x 47"
Annoying Cuban Noises, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
32" x 47"
Missing Link, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 46"
SOLD
Potential (Diptych), 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
16” x 16” & 32” x 47”
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Frame Series 4, 2018
Mixed Media
13” x 13”
SOLD
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Frame Series 1, 2018
Mixed Media
15” x 15”
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Frame Series 2, 2018
Mixed Media
16” x 16”
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Frame Series 3, 2018
Mixed Media
13” x 13”
SOLD