Farley Aguilar Exhibition

Lyles & King

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Lyles & King presents four new paintings by Farley Aguilar in the gallery project room. In this work, Aguilar addresses history, trauma, and the body. In Accused Woman, Shorn Woman, Unknown Woman, and Crippled Children the body is scapegoated–– it acts as the flashpoint and symptom of social turmoil. Through the lens of his paintings, he meditates on fundamental social balances: the shift between seeing and being seen, between agency and objectification, between victim and perpetrator, perhaps most importantly, the relationship between the individual and the crowd.

Farley Aguilar (b. 1980, Nicaragua) lives and works in Miami, FL. Recent exhibitions include A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Taubman Museum, Roanoke, US; Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, US; On the Road II, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Oolite Arts, Miami, US; Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, The Mennello Museum, Orlando, US and We are the people. Who are you?, Edel Assanti, London, UK. His work is in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, US; Brown University, Providence, US; Akron Art Museum, Akron, US; and the Orlando Museum of Art. Aguilar is represented by Lyles & King.