Latin American Art Triennial at Hostos
Under the auspices of the Hostos Center
for the Arts and Culture (HCAC), in
partnership with the Bronx Council
on the Arts (BCA) and the Bronx Hispanic
Festival, the Longwood Art Gallery
@ Hostos will be one of the venues
for the New York Latin American Art
Triennial, 2019 a city-wide exhibition of
70 Latin American artists living in the
New York metropolitan area as well as
abroad.
With the theme of “Progressive
Transition,” the Triennial presents artworks
addressing personal aspects of
the sense of belonging. The Triennial
is directed by Luis Stephenberg Alers
and Alexis Mendoza serves as Chief Curator.
Running until Wednesday, December
11, the Longwood exhibit will feature
11 acclaimed artists in a variety of
media from Argentina, Columbia, Cuba,
the Dominican Republic, Guatemala,
Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Artists
include Dió-genes Abreu, Aviva Aleph,
Valente Arana, María Bouquet, Monica
S Camin, Hubert Caño, Angel Delgado,
Alexis Duque, Borinquen Gallo, Sandra
Monterroso and Miguel Trelles. A public
opening and a closing reception will
accompany the show on Wednesday, December
11.
The Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
is located at Hostos Community College,
450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street).
Gallery hours are Tuesday through
Friday noon to 6 p.m.. For more information,
call (718) 518-6728 or visit hostoscenter.
org or bronxarts.org.
In terms of its curatorial goal, the
Latin American Art Triennial of New
York, 2019 Edition “explores transition
as the action and effect of moving from
one state to another.”
The Progressive Transition, the established
theme, has broadened its denotation
to become, in a defi nite sense,
an exercise that drives transformation
in the arts and cultural milieu and
among its practitioners. One important
factor that we propose to explore is the
artists’ need to “feel part of something”
that can likewise be recognized and defi
ned by others.
The works that comprise the Latin
American Art Triennial of New York
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, O 96 CTOBER 11-17, 2019 BTR
Alexis Duque Manigua (2019) Ink and Acrylic on Canvas.
Photo courtesy of the Bronx Council on the Arts
The Underground celebrates
1-year anniversary at
Jimmy Ryan’s October 18th
The Underground, the spiritual
successor to Bronx Underground,
is having it’s one-year anniversary
show on Friday, October 18, from
6 to 11 p.m., at the First Luthern
Church of Throggs Neck, 3075 Baisley
Avenue.
The show will be followed by an
offi cial after-party show at Jimmy
Ryan’s Bar & Grill, 3005 Middletown
Road, with even more music,
from 11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. They have
a stacked line-up of Bronx and
Greater N.Y. bands, multiple local
visual artists and vendors, and have
partnered with the legendary Bronx
Music Heritage Center.
One year ago this month, the organization
came together to bring
back a movement that was focused
on an all-ages underground Bronx
music scene. They brought in local
business vendors, visual artists,
and opened their doors to bands all
across the Bronx, New York City,
and Westchester,.
present the theme of The Progressive
Transition from a new and specifi c
point of view. The theme does not seek
to prescribe a practice, but rather to situate
itself within the show’s context and
its broad repercussions. The art works
in the 2019 Edition represents the artist
operating within the conceptual landscape
of a general transition, appraised
as a progressive expression, one of artistic
historic linkages, at the personal
or collective level.”
In addition to Longwood Art Gallery
@ Hostos, participating galleries for the
New York Latin American Art Triennial
include: BronxArtSpace, Queens
College Art Center (Rosenthal Library
Clock Tower), Lehman College Art Gallery
and Taller Boricua Galleries (Manhattan)
BRONX SCENE
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