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
HAROLD GARCÍA V
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present a solo exhibition of investigative work by Cuban-born artist Harold García V focusing on the conditions, both past and present, that pose a threat to the Everglades’ fragile ecosystem and their underlying causes. Featuring a video and eleven watercolors, the exhibition examines the deeply rooted attitudes and ensuing actions that impact the Everglades today and traces their origin to the late 19th century.
García’s watercolors are anachronistic, fictional portraits and landscapes that link Victorian-era fashion plates together with imagery from contemporary digital photographs. In his La Mode Pratique (Practical Fashion) series, Victorian figures sport fashionable attire which upon closer inspection proves to be partially ornamented with scenes depicting the plight of the Everglades: burning sugar cane fields, algae-covered coastlines, satellite views of luxury housing developments and displaced wildlife. The video work On the Altars of Vanity fully captures the extravagance of ladies’ hats of the period and connects plume hunting with the present-day practice of beautifying luxury housing developments with artificial lakes filled with water diverted from wetlands.
The work in the exhibition will be the topic of an upcoming virtual conference with the United Nations as part of their Documentation & Division Lecture Series.
Exhibition on view from 05/12/2021 thru 06/27/2021.