"Dialects V.3" Exhibition

BRAC @ Bronx Music Heritage Center

poster for "Dialects V.3" Exhibition

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The Bronx River Art Center presents the third of its four-part exhibition series DIALECTS. Working under the umbrella of local and international dialogue, research, and collaboration, local Bronx artists and international artists are paired together to create and present side-by-side solo exhibitions in BRAC's storefront gallery.

DIALECTS v.3 presents new, site-specific works by Blanka Amezkua (Bronx, NY) and Dario Solman (Croatia) and is curated by BRAC's Gallery Director & Curator, José Ruiz. The juxtaposition of these exhibitions heightens the contrast between two different types of artistic reasoning and process, while further focusing on the overlap of parallel concepts and concerns. On the surface, Blanka Amezkua's installation, Interminable recurrence in my mind, builds upon the organic, abstract, and handmade, to mine colorful aesthetic tendencies that present an alternate dimension to the works that she is primarily known for: the hyper-depiction of women as a character of power that evolve out of the pages of Mexican comic books and other popular paraphernalia. For this exhibition, the Mexican-born, Bronx-based artist unveils a new installation that highlights the various aesthetic motifs that have constantly paralleled her projects over the last fifteen years, so that the exhibition process exposes the often-private investigations that arise in her studio. Organic patterns painted on the wall, abstract crocheted compositions, and an extensive suite of doodles done on mail envelopes are just some of the elements of her installation.

Dario Solman presents a selection from his ongoing project, The Heart of Perspective, the Making of the Film (2001-present), in order to construct digital narratives through a Post-Cold War lens. The artist's rigid, linear, black-and-white works are a combination of animations, drawings, and soundscapes that offer fragmental inquiries into issues of power, conformity, and individuality. Setup as a non-linear "film" project, The Heart of Perspective transforms the formal art term perspective (a drawing technique used to create an illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface) to create a heightened sense of space and time based on psychological implications of existence and order.

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from January 29, 2010 to March 20, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-01-29 from 18:00 to 21:00

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