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
GERTRUDIS RIVALTA
SELECTED PAGES
Thomas Nickles Project in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute at New York University presents Selected Pages, the first solo exhibition in New York City by Cuban-born, artist Gertrudis Rivalta, Guest Curated by Jacqueline Loss, Professor, Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut.
Her work delves into the women’s and girl’s magazines with which this internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist grew up in Cuba, in order to challenge their standardized paradigms of beauty, comportment, and the aspirations they cultivated within their readers. Rivalta’s re-scaling of five of the magazine’s covers using a mixed technique—consisting of sequins and oil on canvas—along with her bringing to life the magazine’s cuquitas (paper cut-out dolls) within dioramas surface centuries’ old legacies of national and transatlantic racial and class tensions as they are lived today by embodied Black female subjects.
Born in 1971 in Santa Clara, Cuba, Rivalta's trajectory includes drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance. A recipient of numerous awards, Rivalta explores racial inheritance, the construction of identity, and the Soviet presence in Cuba at length.
Exhibition Details:
On View: March 16, 2022- April 24, 2022
Opening Reception: Wed, March 16, 2022, 6 – 8pm
