NYAB Event - Juan Travieso “Little Robot [Future Loading]”

Juan Travieso “Little Robot [Future Loading]”

Jenn Singer Gallery

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Coming in the immediate wake of the historic renewal of U.S. - Cuba relations, Jenn Singer Gallery proudly presents Little Robot [Future Loading], a collection of new paintings by 28-year-old Miami-based, Cuban artist Juan Travieso.

In the vanguard of Cuban artists injecting the richness of their art and culture into the American mainstream, Juan Travieso has exhibited in four museum shows, designed a clothing collection for West Coast brand Etnies, and garnered a following of top-tier art collectors. In his first solo exhibition in New York City, Travieso deftly uses his passion for color as a prolific language to jolt us into facing one possible path of our shared uncertain future: a world so distracted by technology that humans have mindlessly pushed virtually all animals into eternal extinction, forever changing our earth.

Little Robot [Future Loading] revolves around a painting of a young boy, The Little Robot, and highlights the impermanence and decay of nature – specifically modern endangered species – and the adverse affects humans have had on it. To visually capture the fragility of these endangered animals, Travieso combines pop, realism, and abstraction, leaving his figures broken-up into spaces and forms like 3D models, almost as if “The Little Robot” - a futuristic representation of an innocent and hopeful child - is looking at dioramas of species long lost.

Juan Travieso, born in Havana, Cuba in 1987, is a Miami-based artist.  His work explores notions of impermanence and decay through a combined language of pop, realism, and abstraction. Juan Travieso is a graduate of New World School of the Arts in Miami Florida, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California. He received a Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has had exhibitions in New York, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, as well as internationally. His work is in the permanent collection of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and is held in important U.S. and international private collections. In his recent exhibitions at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Baker Museum, and Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale Museums of Art, Travieso transposes his work on endangered species with works relating to his own childhood and experiences growing up in Cuba. His paintings range from abstractions interacting with endangered animals, to images of Soviet propaganda and iconic figures of the Cuban revolution.