NYAB Event - Josué Guarionex and Melissa Calderón “Suspicious Activity”

Josué Guarionex and Melissa Calderón “Suspicious Activity”

Andrew Freedman Home

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The Andrew Freedman Artist in Residence Program presents the two person exhibit by Josué Guarionex and Melissa Calderón entitled “Suspicious Activity”. “Suspicious Activity” melds political and ecological concepts with the ritual and symbolic significance of materiality and process. The exhibition presents a snapshot of current political and ecological worldviews, addressing topics of surveillance, labor, inequality, and extinction through a historical and philosophical lens.

Artists Calderón and Josué Guarionex create a unique dialogue through materials and concepts, focusing on the current status quo of imbalance and indifference embedded within political systems and its treatment of the natural world. Their work investigates the current state of complacent ideology while addressing the duality of an ever-changing world within the Sisyphean cycle that history cannot escape.

According to the writer and independent curator Alexis Mendoza, “we are not dealing with conceptual artists; rather creators of motion, all the time concerned by the suggestion in terms of visual expression. —Their main orientation of the exhibition, ‘Suspicious Activity’ aims for a critical vision of the environment and of circumstances in which art operates; it is a critique of the misuse of technology on the created process, and the use of war conflicts as a solution to the ethnic, religious and social economics problems—”.

“Suspicious Activity” exhibition was made possible by Walter Puryear, founder and director of the Andrew Freeman Home Artist in Residence program. “We want to create a healthy and nurturing space where the community comes together to learn and grow, develop and train…A place where art and culture converge, the talents and dreams of our visitors are nurtured and the possibilities unleashed. We’re all about building vibrant, sustainable programs and projects that transform our neighborhoods”