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
WILLIAM ACOSTA
William Acosta was born in Havana, Cuba in 1984 and graduated with a BFA from San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy, Havana in 2004. He completed a drawing workshop in 2000 at the Visual Arts Experimental Center José Antonio Díaz Peláez, Havana.
With a sharp focus on people’s obsession with beauty and appearance, and the resulting dualities often exposed by social media, William Acosta creates images glamorous on the surface and open to deeper consideration.
"I represent a society obsessed with lifestyle, glamour and iconography... Capable of ruining their own lives by following what the publicity tells them. What to buy and how to live. Spending their entire lives doing something they hate, trying to get something they "think" they would like to have and... If by any chance they get it, they won't have enough time to enjoy it."
His work has been included in group and personal exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Panama, Spain, Chile, Peru, Lebanon, Colombia and Russia.
William currently lives and works in Havana, Cuba.
FEATURED WORKS
Ki-Moon-O, 2019 Mixed Media on Paper 11"W x 14 1/2"H
Striped Beach Blanket, c.2017 Mixed Media on Canvas 8.5”W x 11.5”H
Beach Day No. 3, c. 2017 Mixed Media on Paper 8.5”W x 11”H
Ki-Moon-O, 2019 Mixed Media on Paper 11"W x 14 1/2"H