MSA-X 2019 coverage of LnS Gallery
LnS Gallery 2019 We thank, Sergio Cernuda and Luisa Lignarolo and the gallery staff for there kind help, we also thank the artist for there creative phenomena.
LnS GALLERY, WINTER EXHIBITIONS, Miami, 2019
THE ROSES OF FIBONACCI
JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY
November 16, 2019 – January 11, 2020
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
John William Bailly is a French–American artist born in the UK. He received his MFA in painting and ...printmaking from Yale University, and has been a Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University since 2004. His work explores the random nature of information and the methods we employ to process it. Utilizing juxtapositions of diverse data and multiple historical references, Bailly’s work intends for us to reflect on the manner in which we conceptualize our realities. His works have been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Texas State University, as well as other venues in the US and France. He was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind.
WELCOME TO THE WILD WEST:
Drawings from the 1000 Acres Series
A special installation wall
by Jennifer Basile
November 30, 2019 – January 11, 2020
WINTER HIGHLIGHTS
A curated selection of works
by contemporary artists
November 30, 2019 – January 11, 2020
WINTER HIGHLIGHTS is a new group show featuring a curated selection of artworks by contemporary artists, including Gustavo Acosta, Carlos Alfonzo, Mario Bencomo, Tim Buwalda, Agustín Cárdenas, Jake Fernandez, Natalia Garcia-Lee, Copper Inch, Michael Loveland, Roberto Matta, T.Eliott Mansa, Ana Mendieta, Gabriela Noelle, William Osorio, Arturo Rodríguez, Tomás Sánchez, Rafael Soriano, Frank Stella, César Trasobares, Tony Vazquez-Figueroa, Sinuhe Vega Negrin and others.
THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019
Group Show
Organized by Barbara Young, Art Librarian/Curator
November 2, 2019 – January 4, 2020
THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019, a focus installation of artist-made books by South Florida artists, celebrating the Miami Book Fair and recognizing South Florida as a literary and cultural center. In 1983, librarians from the Miami-Dade Public Library System met with independent booksellers at the old Main Library in Bayfront Park to plan a book fair. Through the efforts of South Florida literary advocates including Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, then president of Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, and Mitchell Kaplan, one of the fair’s initial founders and owner of local Books and Books stores, the Miami Book Fair’s first iteration took place at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus in 1984. It has since grown into an eight-day literary party with six nights of authors’ events, and a three-day street fair with over 250 publishers and booksellers, an event now recognized as the nation’s finest literary festival. THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019, organized by Barbara Young, Art Librarian/Curator and conceptualized by Mitchell Kaplan and local artist and literary dynamo Margarita Cano, will be on exhibit at LnS GALLERY, and is designed to align with the 2019 Miami Book Fair.
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LnS GALLERY, WINTER EXHIBITIONS, Miami, 2019
THE ROSES OF FIBONACCI JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY November 16, 2019 – January ...
THE ROSES OF FIBONACCI
JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY
November 16, 2019 – January 11, 2020
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
John William Bailly is a French–American artist born in the UK. He received his MFA in painting and ...printmaking from Yale University, and has been a Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University since 2004. His work explores the random nature of information and the methods we employ to process it. Utilizing juxtapositions of diverse data and multiple historical references, Bailly’s work intends for us to reflect on the manner in which we conceptualize our realities. His works have been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Texas State University, as well as other venues in the US and France. He was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind.
WELCOME TO THE WILD WEST:
Drawings from the 1000 Acres Series
A special installation wall
by Jennifer Basile
November 30, 2019 – January 11, 2020
WINTER HIGHLIGHTS
A curated selection of works
by contemporary artists
November 30, 2019 – January 11, 2020
WINTER HIGHLIGHTS is a new group show featuring a curated selection of artworks by contemporary artists, including Gustavo Acosta, Carlos Alfonzo, Mario Bencomo, Tim Buwalda, Agustín Cárdenas, Jake Fernandez, Natalia Garcia-Lee, Copper Inch, Michael Loveland, Roberto Matta, T.Eliott Mansa, Ana Mendieta, Gabriela Noelle, William Osorio, Arturo Rodríguez, Tomás Sánchez, Rafael Soriano, Frank Stella, César Trasobares, Tony Vazquez-Figueroa, Sinuhe Vega Negrin and others.
THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019
Group Show
Organized by Barbara Young, Art Librarian/Curator
November 2, 2019 – January 4, 2020
THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019, a focus installation of artist-made books by South Florida artists, celebrating the Miami Book Fair and recognizing South Florida as a literary and cultural center. In 1983, librarians from the Miami-Dade Public Library System met with independent booksellers at the old Main Library in Bayfront Park to plan a book fair. Through the efforts of South Florida literary advocates including Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, then president of Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, and Mitchell Kaplan, one of the fair’s initial founders and owner of local Books and Books stores, the Miami Book Fair’s first iteration took place at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus in 1984. It has since grown into an eight-day literary party with six nights of authors’ events, and a three-day street fair with over 250 publishers and booksellers, an event now recognized as the nation’s finest literary festival. THE ARTFUL BOOK 2019, organized by Barbara Young, Art Librarian/Curator and conceptualized by Mitchell Kaplan and local artist and literary dynamo Margarita Cano, will be on exhibit at LnS GALLERY, and is designed to align with the 2019 Miami Book Fair.
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FORM /FUNCTION/ POWER JESSIE LAINO, LNS gallery, 2019
FORM /FUNCTION/ POWER JESSIE LAINO I know a young gal from Miami, who ...
FORM
/FUNCTION/
POWER
JESSIE LAINO
I know a young gal from Miami,
who challenges notions of vanity
in ourselves and our objects,
she reshapes the prospects
of how we relate to humanity.
- Bill Bilowit
Whether wrapping unruly bundles ...of hay in plastic, stripping abandoned Christmas trees or polishing a junked muffler, Jessie Laino re-animates the discarded artifacts of her world. By plumbing the emotional relationships she has with cast-off objects, she invites viewers to follow suit, and that inquiry can be transformative. Whether mufflers, ropes, tires, even plastic bags, very few things appear repellent to Laino. They provoke questions. Who discarded this beautiful crimson comforter and why? What late-night conversations did it witness? She develops intimate relationships with the objects she “adopts.” So can we.
Laino’s family story revolves around faux finishing and building – skills she learned from her parents before exploring advanced art ideas in college. Her mom operated a faux finishing business and regularly brought young Jessie to the studio. Her father taught her to build whatever she could envision. Marbleizing was one of the illusions Laino learned to create, transforming a nondescript surface into one of prestige and value.
Captivated by the powerful technology of marble quarrying, she fabricated her own massive block, using lightweight rigid foam. She disguised its surfaces with veining and distinctive tool marks. Now, in the gallery visitors ponder: Did she just find this formidable marble block, or purchase it? Then they discover, no, it’s carved from foam.
As a student, Laino learned to “make something out of nothing,” but generating unsettlingly beautiful sculptures from exploded tire scraps is another matter. It’s alchemy.
George Fishman
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Jennifer Basile walks us through her solo show, The Power of Print, at LnS gallery
Jennifer Basile walks us through her solo show, The Power of Print: ...
Jennifer Basile walks us through her solo show, The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape. A First Saturday Reception to follow. The Florida Room at LnS gallery.
ARTIST ...STATEMENT
The Landscape has and will always be important to me. Throughout my childhood, it was a place of escape. Every time I felt a need to flee reality, which as a young artist was often, I would go into the yard, lie on my back and look up at the trees and sky. That feeling of escapism is one that I want to recreate and share with all who view my artwork.
My body of work explores our surrounding landscapes. It is a reflection of my experiences and road trips throughout our beautiful country.
On my journeys, I stop at National and State Parks, I hike, I learn about the location, and I collect my subject matter. I enjoy creating traditionally based artworks on a grand scale that envelop the viewer. I get satisfaction from the hard manual labor work of relief printing by hand. These hand pulled prints are off multiple relief blocks, cut out of sheets of linoleum that are 36 inches wide and a minimum of 72 inches long. This is the true challenge, working on a grand scale to create one registered image.
Influenced by artist/print-maker Swoon, I want the viewer to feel as though they are physically present within these environments, experiencing a specific attribute of a particular landscape. Too much of our country’s land has been destroyed by construction and over development. Climate change is playing an immense role in our surroundings and is changing the shape of our landscape.
My message is simple, to capture the environment in all of its pure and natural beauty, before it is permanently changed. My goal is to create works that allow the viewer to escape while inspiring them to preserve their precious surroundings.[+] Show More
LnS GALLERY presents The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape by Jennifer Basile
LnS GALLERY presents The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American ...
LnS GALLERY presents
The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape
by Jennifer Basile
April 27 – June 22, 2019
PREVIEW RECEPTION | Saturday April 27, 2019 | 6:00-9:00 pm
MIAMI, FL (April ...2019) – LnS GALLERY presents the recent work of Miami-based artist Jennifer Basile in an inspiring solo show, The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog featuring an introduction by renowned gallerist Bernice Steinbaum, and an essay by Marina Wecksler, a Venezuelan-born, Miami-based architect, museologist, curator, editor, and publisher specialized in modern and contemporary art.
Jennifer Basile received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a Masters of Fine Arts in printmaking from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Miami-Dade College. She has presented numerous exhibitions and received residencies and awards across the country, including from the Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute and Jentel Foundation. Basile currently lives in Miami, enjoys all the activities and outdoor sports that the tropical weather allows, and travels frequently to national parks where she works and delights in nature.
Through different techniques – relief woodcut prints, color reduction woodcut prints, intaglio prints, ballpoint pen drawings and an installation – the artist presents us with diverse approaches to the landscapes that seduced her in her last trips through our beautiful country: “On my journeys, I stop at national and state parks, hike, learn about the location, and collect my subject matter. I enjoy creating traditionally-based artworks on a grand scale that envelop the viewer. The difficult, manual labor of relief printing by hand brings me great satisfaction. It is a true challenge, working on a grand scale to create one registered image.”
In addition to its aesthetic and visual value, the artist imbues her work with ecological meaning: “Climate change is playing an immense role in our surroundings and is changing the shape of our landscape. My message is simple: to capture the environment in all of its pure and natural beauty, before it is permanently changed. My goal is to create works that allow viewers to escape [the bustle of the city], while inspiring them to preserve their precious natural surroundings.”
In the exhibition catalog’s accompanying essay, Marina Wecksler writes of Basile’s work: “Beyond the need to recreate the landscape, Basile synthesizes it to reproduce it graphically. She eliminates the superfluous – colors and nuances – by eliminating tones and reflections and staying with a single stroke of a single color. She keeps the essential, the iconic, what can be printed with a single black ink. It is an abstraction process, although the result remains figurative… Even when the landscape is urban rather than natural, she manages to capture and reproduce its essence. Here also, be it a set of buildings seen from a window, or a bridge seen in the distance between the clouds, the created space invites the viewer to flights of imagination… What is captivating about her work, beyond the mastery with which she produces impressions that look like drawings, is its profound depth. One enters visually, and the imagination completes what is not seen. It transmits the peace and the majesty of the place, freeing it of all stridency.”
PREVIEW RECEPTION
Saturday, April 27, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH
& FIRST SATURDAY RECEPTION
Saturday May 4, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
April 27 – June 22, 2019[+] Show More
LnS GALLERY presents The Power of Print by Jennifer Basile "Instalation of Show "
Instalation of Show LnS GALLERY presents The Power of Print: Iconic ...
Instalation of Show
LnS GALLERY presents
The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape
by Jennifer Basile
April 27 – June 22, 2019
PREVIEW RECEPTION | Saturday April 27, 2019 | 6:00-9:00 ...pm
MIAMI, FL (April 2019) – LnS GALLERY presents the recent work of Miami-based artist Jennifer Basile in an inspiring solo show, The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog featuring an introduction by renowned gallerist Bernice Steinbaum, and an essay by Marina Wecksler, a Venezuelan-born, Miami-based architect, museologist, curator, editor, and publisher specialized in modern and contemporary art.
Jennifer Basile received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a Masters of Fine Arts in printmaking from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Miami-Dade College. She has presented numerous exhibitions and received residencies and awards across the country, including from the Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute and Jentel Foundation. Basile currently lives in Miami, enjoys all the activities and outdoor sports that the tropical weather allows, and travels frequently to national parks where she works and delights in nature.
Through different techniques – relief woodcut prints, color reduction woodcut prints, intaglio prints, ballpoint pen drawings and an installation – the artist presents us with diverse approaches to the landscapes that seduced her in her last trips through our beautiful country: “On my journeys, I stop at national and state parks, hike, learn about the location, and collect my subject matter. I enjoy creating traditionally-based artworks on a grand scale that envelop the viewer. The difficult, manual labor of relief printing by hand brings me great satisfaction. It is a true challenge, working on a grand scale to create one registered image.”
In addition to its aesthetic and visual value, the artist imbues her work with ecological meaning: “Climate change is playing an immense role in our surroundings and is changing the shape of our landscape. My message is simple: to capture the environment in all of its pure and natural beauty, before it is permanently changed. My goal is to create works that allow viewers to escape [the bustle of the city], while inspiring them to preserve their precious natural surroundings.”
In the exhibition catalog’s accompanying essay, Marina Wecksler writes of Basile’s work: “Beyond the need to recreate the landscape, Basile synthesizes it to reproduce it graphically. She eliminates the superfluous – colors and nuances – by eliminating tones and reflections and staying with a single stroke of a single color. She keeps the essential, the iconic, what can be printed with a single black ink. It is an abstraction process, although the result remains figurative… Even when the landscape is urban rather than natural, she manages to capture and reproduce its essence. Here also, be it a set of buildings seen from a window, or a bridge seen in the distance between the clouds, the created space invites the viewer to flights of imagination… What is captivating about her work, beyond the mastery with which she produces impressions that look like drawings, is its profound depth. One enters visually, and the imagination completes what is not seen. It transmits the peace and the majesty of the place, freeing it of all stridency.”
PREVIEW RECEPTION
Saturday, April 27, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH
& FIRST SATURDAY RECEPTION
Saturday May 4, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
April 27 – June 22, 2019[+] Show More
Mario Bencomo, Visual Poet, @ LnS Gallery, Miami, 2019
Mario Bencomo When asked why and how poetry has had a significance in ...
Mario Bencomo
When asked why and how poetry has had a significance in his life, Bencomo said “the word poet comes from the Greek word poiein, meaning “to create.” Poetry and ...Literature depend on imagery. I am a painter in a World of Words.”
Mario Bencomo (b. 1953) is a Cuban-born, American artist. His work relates to the ambiguity of form found in the natural world, literature, poetry, art history and personal experience; often blurring the line between the spiritual from the sensual. He never broke away from his original cultural links to Cuba or later Spain, where he lived before he arrived in New York at the age of 14 in 1968, and later to Miami, where he was formed as an artist. He often returns to Europe for extended stays, and for many years now, to Montreal, Canada, where he also works on many of his paintings and drawings. In 1996, he returned to Cuba for the first time, three decades after leaving, and has visited Cuba periodically since then.
He has participated in cultural panels and lectures on his work at museums and cultural institutions, including the Golda Meir Center, Denver, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama, NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Naples Museum of Art, FL, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario, Canada and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
CURRICULUM VITAE & CHRONOLOGY »
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LNS Gallery new show, "Neighborhood Projects" by Tim Buwalda, 2019, Miami
LNS Gallery new show, "Neighborhood Projects" by Tim Buwalda, 2019, ...
LNS Gallery new show, "Neighborhood Projects" by Tim Buwalda, 2019, Miami
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The quintessential extensions of American identity are intertwined in Tim Buwalda’s new series of paintings, expanding the scope ...of his incisive commentary on self-actualization and social change embodied by classic cars. The enigmatic set pieces of Neighborhood Projects engage audiences’ imaginations with glimpses of property bordering real models, disclosing just enough authentic details about their modest home-lives to suggest dramatic backstories for the unseen inhabitants. The artist discovered his latest muses by scouring the quotidian sidestreets and middle-class quarters of South Florida’s suburban sprawl, fertile territory for stagnant dreams, forsaken treasures and abandoned projects more likely to be sheltered from voyeurs in colder climes.
Buwalda documents each scene without judgment or intervention, only adjusting the perspective and framing of found objects in situ. At his Miami studio, the artist adapts selected compositions into oil paint or watercolor with a signature blend of precise brushstrokes and expressive shading. This balance of verisimilitude and perceptual veracity tempers the impermeable veneer of photorealist pioneers with subtle subjective touches. He shines a stark light on deteriorating conditions by meticulously rendering the disheveled slipcovers and overgrown foliage that shroud survivors with symbolic weight. Yet he also elevates objects of desire by grounding the gaze in a point of view reminiscent of his boyhood tinkering at West Palm Beach garages under the tutelage of masculine elders.
The conscious presence of the artist’s hand evokes the impossibility of perfection and inevitability of change – for man and machine alike – as well as the ideals that propel invention and consumption. Buwalda simultaneously articulates and penetrates the branded personas of each vehicle to reveal both the wishful self-image projected by its invisible driver and the subconscious reflection of unvarnished human nature. Writ large, these auto-portraits take on allegorical dimensions, signaling the inevitable displacement of car culture and illusory glory of the American Dream.
– Margery Gordon
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LnS Gallery, Carlos Alfonzo "Witnessing Perpetuity" 2020 Miami
LnS Gallery Presents: CARLOS ALFONZO WITNESSING PERPETUITY LnS GALLERY ...
LnS Gallery Presents:
CARLOS ALFONZO
WITNESSING PERPETUITY
LnS GALLERY continues its third Season of the Arts with Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity. Collaborative research and a strong community-based passion for the work of Alfonzo ...– an important historical creative pioneer and key contributor to Miami’s role as a center of artistic force – have realized a formidable retrospective exhibition that embodies a comprehensive chronology of artistic evolution in works that span the artist’s oeuvre from 1976-1990. With reverence and intention, the 5,000 square foot gallery space will be dedicated in its entirety to the exhibition, aligning to commemorate what would have been the year of Alfonzo’s seventieth birthday.
A 78-page hardcover catalog including an essay by Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., expert on the artist, accompanies the exhibition, which features masterful works that have been handled by LnS GALLERY, alongside a number of works on loan that are considered essential to honoring the artist’s life, his scope of work, and his mark on a formative time in the history of Miami.
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REDACTED by CÉSAR TRASOBARES, @ LNS Gallery, 2018
Launching its second Fall Season, LnS Gallery presents REDACTED, an ...
Launching its second Fall Season, LnS Gallery presents REDACTED, an exhibition by César Trasobares. Featuring a suite of recent constructions made with recycled metal bookshelves, the show also includes special ...pieces in various media and a site installation in our project space, LØUNGE. The exhibition is documented by a catalog.
Through his installations and exhibitions of the last 40 years, Trasobares has engaged official display furniture as metaphors for the indexing, studying and presenting of cultural artifacts and scientific specimens. In a surprising reversal, these recent works embody an intentional makeover of the functional, culture-organizing objects into unusable enigmatic structures.[+] Show More
Arcimboldo’s Ghosts by Arturo Rodríguez, @ LnS GALLERY, Miami 2018
LnS GALLERY presents ARCIMBOLDO’S GHOSTS, a visual treasure hunt ...
LnS GALLERY presents ARCIMBOLDO’S GHOSTS, a visual treasure hunt alighting heart and intellect by Cuban-born, American artist Arturo Rodríguez, one of Miami’s most prominent and achieved artists. Visitors will feast ...sensorially through his work on Saturday, November 17 for an opening reception. A full-color catalog of artworks on exhibit will be presented with the show featuring essays by two special guest contributors: art historian, professor, and author Alejandro Anreus, Ph.D., as well as art curator, critic, and journalist Lilly Wei.
The series contemplates the muniments of art history, responding with “a love letter to painting” as described by Alejandro Anreus, which layers story upon story, painting within painting; applying the very medium to overtly reinterpret the visual poetry of Masters in homage to their influence, always with a focus on the universal theme of “displacement.”
The style of the series’ titular inspiration – the 16th-century Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo – is effectively incorporated in the portraiture of human forms represented in imaginative natural images such as flowers, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Rodríguez tropicalizes Arcimboldo’s traditional still-life elements by substituting the flora of his birthplace and the arsenal of his profound exploration of art history. “At first glance, they all seem whimsical, playful, but underneath the depth of the human condition can be sensed; tragedy and comedy, nothingness and meaning encountered and balanced in our existence… Homage and parody are knitted together in these poetic evocations, which of course are very much a part of the tradition of painting in Europe and the Americas,” Alejandro Anreus writes of the series. In echoing the satirical, clever nature of Arcimboldo, Rodríguez’s resulting work speaks to one of art’s crucial purposes in service of humanity.
“He invests his figuration with borrowings from other images, overtly so, creating not only a visually compelling hybrid but also one that represents a dense and layered history of art that is personal, idiosyncratic,” writes Lilly Wei. Formative influences such as Cezanne’s The Bather, Diane Arbus’ Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, and Courbet’s self-portrait and servant with walking sticks from The Encounter connect us to the essence of their expressive intention as Rodríguez concurrently develops the concepts within, advancing each narrative, folding those stories into his own prolific story. “It’s a visual treasure hunt to find them and identify the sources, challenging and engaging the viewer” adds Wei.[+] Show More
LnS Gallery “Margins of Truth” William Osorio
LnS GALLERY presents Margins of Truth, a solo exhibition by ...
LnS GALLERY presents Margins of Truth, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist William Osorio. Margins of Truth frame Osorio’s artistic exploration of identity and its Odyssean reality. In these paintings, ...he deconstructs the flexibility of our existence and its impact on culture and day-to-day surroundings. His compositions are an examination of the infinite possibilities of all that is comprised within the human experience. This is Osorio’s second solo exhibition at LnS GALLERY following Inside Out in 2018. Margins of Truth will be on view at LnS GALLERY, March 20 through May 22, 2021.
“William is a powerful painter and a student of philosophy. His work elicits further examination of how we view basic behavior throughout time and space,” notes Luisa Lignarolo, co-owner of LnS GALLERY.
His work falls within a style of renewed Figurative Expressionism. Osorio’s style is characterized by a gestural looseness of unrestrained paint, taking inspiration from Contemporary giants such as Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, Gerhard Richter, and Eric Fischl. As keenly noted by Ghanaian-American curator, and contemporary art advocate, Larry Ossei-Mensah in the accompanying catalog essay, Osorio has taken a combination of styles and deftly created “an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary replete with its own rhythm, form, and textural language.”
William Osorio is a Miami-based artist, born in Holguin, Cuba in 1989. Osorio began his artistic journey at a young age in grade school. He initiated his studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown of Holguin, later choosing to pursue his dreams by emigrating to the US. In the States, he embraced becoming a self-taught artist, leading to a key factor in the spontaneity of his work. While in the US, the Osorio participated in over 20 art exhibitions and group shows. He completed a residency in 2020 through Oolite Arts at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO) and is currently an Artist-In-Residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex (Miami, FL).[+] Show More
"Emilio Sanchez: Revisited", LnS Gallery
Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) was a Cuban American artist known for his ...
Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) was a Cuban American artist known for his architectural paintings, drawings, and graphic prints of New York, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a practitioner of realism, ...he was attracted to folklore and the vernacular, with architectural scenes of everyday life taking preference over the great historical narratives of western civilization. His keen eye and remarkable ability to edit incidental elements also made him a painter of dreamlike architectural enigmas, as if the buildings he depicted existed only in memory.
Sanchez’s work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (Havana, Cuba), the Museo de Arte Moderno (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA). He received First Prize at the 1974 San Juan Biennial in Puerto Rico and was awarded the CINTAS Fellowship in the Visual Arts (1989-90). His remarkable story, like that of his tragic country, is a tale of powerful contrasts, intense light, and mysteriously penetrating shadows.
The paintings presented in the main gallery are a cross-section of Sanchez’s finished work, consisting mainly of in situ watercolors and more elaborate, studio-based oil on canvas paintings. LnS Gallery would like to express its sincere gratitude to the many leaders of this show and in particular the Emilio Sanchez Foundation for their continued support and to Dr. Victor Deupi for his dedication to the exhibition and for his insightful essay.[+] Show More
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