Ivan Rivera “Mix Messages”
Wayfarers
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Mix Messages is a survey of Ivan Rivera’s works from 2012-2018 and includes multi-media work from several series and several points of departure.
Each painting in the encaustic and mixed-media series Memory Landscapes uses a photograph as a starting point, with consecutive pieces being created from the memory of the prior one. The works become increasingly abstract with each version, mirroring the devolving nature of memory.
Inspired by the TV show with a similar name, the richly textured, mixed-media paintings in the series Toddlers with Tiaras are lush, ironic commentaries on our complex cultural relationship with pageantry and child performers.
The painting installation -20 is a meditation on the tragic phenomenon of US school shootings and the relentless news cycle that renders the lives of individual victims into statistics at the service of political or economic agendas.
Mix Messages, the title series of this show, is an homage to the streets of Brooklyn where Rivera lives and works. Vinyl stickers, snippets of signage and graffiti-inspired motifs are combined with classical patterns and historical paintings to create new narrative compositions that imitate the accumulation and layering of graffiti in urban settings and the unexpected yet consistent narratives which seem to evolve organically when they collide.
Wayfarers Ghost member Keil Troisi is beginning development on his new feature film, Trash Night, a horror-comedy with an ecological twist, in which a group of kids race to survive #trashpocalypse when all garbage comes to life and returns to meet its makers. Several of our studio members will be involved in the production, and many of the models in the film will be fabricated and shot on site at Wayfarers. Join the journey before June 15th to help realize this scary-fun movie that will make us regard our trashcans more cautiously.
From May 24-27, the Palazzina Liberty in the Giardini Margherita, Bologna will be the site of the exhibition Lasciare la Terra/To Leave Earth featuring Wayfarers members Kate Kosek, Maureen O’Leary, Samantha Robinson and 2015 Summer Artist in Residence, Macon Reed.
Following this exhibition, on June 23, Nadia Antonello and Paolo Ghezzi will travel to Wayfarers where they will present a public performance of their piece Blow against the walls.
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Schedule
from June 01, 2018 to June 16, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-06-01 from 19:00 to 22:00