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
YAMILYS BRITO JORGE
Yamilys Brito Jorge was born in Havana, Cuba in 1972. She graduated with a BFA from San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy, Havana, in 1991 and received a graduate degree from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 1996 and has been teaching printmaking for over 20 years.
She brings a vast, knowledge base to the page. In total command of her abilities, she manages to strike a delicate balance between the technical and the playful to find a voice uniquely her own.
"My work is always on paper. I enjoy the possibilities that this medium has to offer. I love the memorabilia of other countries, from old films strips, theater tickets, old postcards, photographs, posters and old handwritten letters. My work is made of mementos, vestiges, souvenirs all collectables pieces of heart, soul and time. For me, the reality is stronger than everything. I approach my work utilizing all the graphic techniques and skills and when creating my works, I can combine 3 or 4 procedures at the same time."
Her work has been included in both group and personal exhibitions in Cuba, Europe and the United States, and is in the collections of numerous museums including the Rubins Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Akron Museum and the Arizona State University Art Museum.
Yamilys currently teaches printmaking at the Cuban Workshop of Experimental Graphic Arts in Havana and lives in Havana, Cuba.
FEATURED WORKS
Abracadabra, 2019 Mixed Media Collage 8 1/2"W x 15"H
Memoria De Elefanta (Elephant's Memory), 2019 Mixed Media Collage 8 1/2"W x 15"H
Presente de Amor!, 2018 Mixed Media Collage 13.75”W x 19.5”H
Abracadabra, 2019 Mixed Media Collage 8 1/2"W x 15"H