DIONNYS MATOS
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
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
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.
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
VIDEOS
FRESH : PREVIEW
Envisioned with a slight twist to the virtual exhibition format, FRESH: Preview offers a glimpse of works from what was to be the inaugural exhibition at our new gallery space in New York City. The opening was originally scheduled for early May, what turned out to be a time of quarantine in New York City due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The excitement around finally realizing our mission of providing a permanent physical exhibition space for Cuban artists went on hold as the entire city shutdown, halting the gallery’s renovation and leaving us in limbo.
Apartment-bound, trying to navigate our new physical reality as well as the possibilities offered by the online world, we wanted to do something heartening that incorporated interaction with our shut down city. A purely virtual approach didn’t feel quite right; the exhibition needed warmth and a sense of physical connection to counter the feelings of isolation and sadness brought on by the pandemic. Thus, we staged FRESH: Preview amidst stacks of drywall, idle power tools and construction debris in our half-renovated gallery space. We see it as an exercise in adaptability and fortitude, bringing elements of the raw physical space to the virtual experience.
Not knowing what we’d find when we arrived at the gallery, we had a loose plan to install the show somewhat in keeping with the original exhibition layout, but working only with pieces we’d transported from Cuba prior to the shutdown and those we could collect from artists living locally. This conventional approach shifted quickly when we found the space full of construction material, equipment and debris. Rather than moving these things to accommodate the plan, we opted to leave the gallery undisturbed and situate the work throughout the space. There seemed to be a natural home for each work where it interacted with the rough surroundings, creating the unforeseen compositions pictured here.
As the original opening exhibition press release would have explained: The show brings together artists from Cuba who take an innovative approach to technique, subject, medium and style, and provides a glimpse of Cuban contemporary art today. Living in Cuba and the United States, the artists are at different stages in their careers. Their work is largely new to the United States, and some are being exhibited in New York City for the first time.
Will the original show happen? Should it happen? Will it be relevant? This all remains to be seen, but what is clear is that the impact of the novel coronavirus and the long-needed end to silence about anti-black racism in our society has created space for positive change. Our hope is that we all come together and use our shared creativity to envision, build and sustain a future where people are not oppressed because of race, identity, gender or for any reason at all.
SAMUEL : RIERA

Analytical Boards No. 11, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
31.5” x 39.25”
DANAY : VIGOA

Soy Proyección (I Am A Reflection), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 30”

Piedra a piedra se construye un camino
(Stone By Stone A Road Is Built), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 30”
DOUGLAS : ARGÜELLES : CRUZ

Homeless Series, No. 1, 2017
Digital Print on Mylar
31” x 21.75”

Homeless Series, No. 3, 2017
Digital Print on Mylar
31” x 21.75”

Homeless Series, No. 2, 2017
Digital Print on Mylar
31” x 21.75”

Homeless Series, No. 4, 2017
Digital Print on Mylar
31” x 21.75”
ALEJANDRO : JUSTIZ

Skyline, 2019
Acrylic, Ink and Markers on Paper
39” x 28”
SANDRA : CORDERO

Untitled 87, 2020
Paper Collage
15” x 11”

Untitled 81, 2020
Paper Collage
10” x 8”
WILLIAM : PEREZ

Untitled, 2020
From the Caprices of the Consciousness Series
Acrylic on Paper Collage
15” x 11”
LUIS : ALBERTO : ÁLVAREZ : LÓPEZ

Metal Plate 1, 2019
Mixed Media on Metal
10.5” x 13”

Metal Plate 2, 2019
Mixed Media on Metal
10.5” x 13”
YAMILYS : BRITO : JORGE

Presente de Amor! (Love Present!), 2018
Mixed Media on Paper
13.75” x 19.5”

Amor Salvaje (Savage Love), 2018
Mixed Media on Paper
13.75” x 19.5”

Odalisca (Odalisque), 2018
Mixed Media on Paper
13.75” x 19.5”
JORGE : WELLESLEY

Love (II), 2017
Oil on Canvas
16.5” x 9.75”
CESAR : LEAL : JIMENEZ

Rock 'N' Roll Cubano No. 20, 2018
Acrylic on Paper
19.75” x 27.5"

Rock 'N' Roll Cubano No. 21, 2018
Acrylic on Paper
19.75” x 27.5"
ABEL : LOPEZ

All Star Series: Pink Boss, 2017
Assemblage on Vinyl
17” x 17"

All Star Series: Space Invaders, 2017
Assemblage on Vinyl
17” x 17"
R : 10

Missing Link, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 46"
SPECIAL : THANKS
We'd like to extend a special thank you to our awesome artists who rose to the occasion to help make this happen!

Douglas Argüelles Cruz, Sandra Cordero and Danay Vigoa

Alejandro Justiz