Caminantes
Caminantes bring together a selection of South Florida based artists that identify as LatinX and Hispanic. The term Caminante is inspired by a poem from Antonio Machado, and the migration of cultures and ideas that take a unique shape in the South Florida environment.
Featuring work by Laura Bustamante, Sebastian Bruno-Harris, Jaynilee Hernandez Fernandez, Isabel Gouveia, Diana Larrea, Lauryn Lawrence, Kandy G. Lopez, Emilio Martinez, Vincent Miranda, Aurora Molina, Roberto Rafael Navarrete, Charo Oquet, Julian Prado, Rosemarie Romero, Izel Vargas, and Joseph Velazques.
Poem:
Caminante no hay Camino by Antonio Machado
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.
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Wayfarer, there is no path By Antonio Machado
Wayfarer, the only way
Is your footprints and no other.
Wayfarer, there is no way.
Make your way by going farther.
By going farther, make your way
Till looking back at where you've wandered,
You look back on that path you may
Not set foot on from now onward.
Wayfarer, there is no way;
Only wake-trails on the waters.
Projects Space: July 31 - October 30, 2021
Amanda Bradley: The land remembers the flood
Amanda Bradley’s solo exhibition, The land remembers the flood, at FAR Contemporary Gallery is an exercise in infiltrating and reimagining her personal archive. Bradley draws from past and present work, including photographs, stills, and short films taken in different locations throughout the Caribbean region. She explores how landscape can function as a visual threshold, catalyzing memory and claiming space for alternative interpretations of our own histories.
The title of the exhibition references an essay by Toni Morrison that expands on the notion of living memory as a “form of willed creation”. For Morrison, memory is expansive, invasive of the forgotten corners, imposing on the derelict gaps. In returning to past events and mining her personal archive, Bradley reckons with her own understanding of what occurred and how memory can extend itself through time, flooding into the present moment, like water deviated from its natural course finding its original path.
Through her work, Bradley blurs the line between place and time across a scattered geography, calling on viewers to reexamine their own relationship to the land and how it informs both our domestic and exterior spaces. The cinematic vignettes Bradley incorporates into the exhibition extend the possibilities of the narrative, associating motion with memory, allowing viewers to connect through mirrored gestures of remembering.
FAR Gallery: May 29 - June 26, 2021
Photo Credits: Ben Ezra
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Sara Garden Armstrong: Threads and Layers
Threads and Layers surveys works by Alabama native, Sara Garden Armstrong, representing an artistic legacy in Alabama and New York spanning six decades. This exhibition brings together handmade artist books, paintings, sculpture, and mechanical, light- and sound-based installations from the 1970s to the 2000s, and recent works covering Armstrong’s artistic production up to the present-day. Many of these works have never been presented together before.
Armstrong’s continuing practice interprets life cycles and metamorphosis using movement, color, sound, texture, and light. Armstrong has exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1970s. She has had solo exhibitions at John Gibson Gallery, Dieu Donné, Souyun Yi Gallery, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Space One Eleven, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Her work has featured in numerous group exhibitions including A.I.R. Gallery and Sculpture Center, New York; Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis; U.S. Embassy, Czech Republic, Prague; Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany; Bellevue Art Museum, WA; and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach. Her artist books and artworks are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Time, Inc., New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bibliothèque Nationale and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; Birmingham Museum of Art; and many others. Her atrium sculptures are included in collections including the Civitan International Research Center at UAB, and United Therapeutic Corporation, Silver Spring, MD.
Armstrong now lives and works in Birmingham, where she founded the cooperative art gallery, Ground Floor Contemporary. The monograph, Sara Garden Armstrong: Threads and Layers, will be published this fall. Learn more at: saragardenarmstrong.com. The exhibition is guest-curated by Paul Barrett, who organized Sara Garden Armstrong: Threads and Layers at the University of Alabama Gallery and the Arts Council Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in Tuscaloosa. Barrett represented Armstrong’s artist books at the art gallery AGNES in Birmingham in the 1990s.
Projects Space: April 24 - June 26, 2021
