HOSTING PROJECTS
Swampspace presents Well, acting itself a form of disobedience, always organized by Hosting Projects, featuring sculptures, paintings and multimedia works by Marcel Alcala, Diana Lozano and Lucia Del Sanchez, three Latinx artists based between New York and Miami. Brazenly making marks with a wink towards the unremarkable, each artist seeks to reclaim an existing iconography. The works wield ornamentation and excess, utilizing brightly saturated colors and peripherally familiar imagery, as a way to stake claims on identity, community, and shifting cityscapes.
The exhibition opens December 3rd, featuring a performance by Alcala, and will run through December 8th with a closing reception that evening.
Hosting Projects is an artist run duo based in New York and Los Angeles focused on facilitation, curation, collaboration and conversation generated by new works from emerging artists.
Opening Reception (December 3): 6-9pm
Closing Reception (December 8): 6-9pm
Open Hours December 3-8th: 11am-3pm or by appointment
Contact information:
Harris Bauer: 310 980 1811
Rachel Zaretsky: 305 609 0598
Co-curators and organizers
Oliver Sanchez: 305 710 8631
Swampspace owner
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On the occasion of ArtWeek Miami 2018, Swampspace Gallery is pleased to showcase a remarkable exhibition organized by Hosting Projects co-curators Harris Bauer and Rachel Zaretsky. Well, Acting Itself a Form of Disobedience, Always features three “Latinx” artists based between New York and Miami. Diana Lozano, Lucia Del Sanchez and Marcel Alcala work in sculpture, painting and multimedia. Each artist reclaims disparate existing iconographies. Yet together they brazenly make a singular mark with a wink towards the unremarkable. The works are concerned with ornamentation and excess, utilizing brightly saturated colors and peripheral imagery of the familiar as a way to stake claims on identity, community, and the archipelago of cityscapes.
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On the occasion of ArtWeek Miami 2018, Swampspace Gallery is pleased to showcase an exhibition organized by Hosting Projects, co-curators Harris Bauer and Rachel Zaretsky. Well, acting itself is a form of disobedience, always features three Latinx artists based between New York and Miami. Diana Lozano, Lucia Del Sanchez and Marcel Alcala work in sculpture, painting and multimedia. Each artist reclaims disparate existing iconographies, brazenly making marks with a wink towards the unremarkable as they consider performative adornment and the impulse of materiality. The works wield ornamentation and excess, utilizing brightly saturated colors and peripheral imagery of the familiar to stake claims on identity, community, and the archipelago of cityscapes.
Swampspace Gallery presents “Well, acting itself is a form of disobedience, always.” an exhibition co-curated by Hosting Projects founders Harris Bauer and Rachel Zaretsky featuring work by Diana Lozano, Lucia Del Sanchez and Marcel Alcala, three emerging creatives working at the nexus of Latinx and popular culture in NY, LA and Miami.
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FACEBOOK INFO:
TITLE of EVENT: Swampsapce x Hosting Projects: Alcala, Lozano, Sanchez
Time of Opening Reception: 6-10pm
Time of Gallery open hours: 11am-3pm
APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE THROUGH: (305) 710-8631 //
hrhrdeptdept@gmail.com
December 3 - December 8th
Closing Reception December 8th 6-9pm
Description:
Swampspace presents Well, acting itself is a form of disobedience, always, an exhibition organized by Hosting Projects. The show features sculptures, paintings and multimedia works by Marcel Alcala, Diana Lozano and Lucia Del Sanchez, Latinx artists based in Miami and New York.
Alcala, Lozano and Sanchez wield ornamentation and embellishment as a tool in their glorification of excess turned descriptive language. They seek to reclaim existing iconography as well as desired cultural capital. Each of the works on exhibit come from a space reliant on the artists’ collective memory, drawing from their immediate surroundings and personal insight or nostalgia, while still reflecting something outside the realm of recognition. These objects play their own parts to perform their own existences. Each assemblage born in the lingering moment of awareness that camp is, in fact, a criticism.
Please join us for an opening reception December 3rd, 6-10pm featuring a performance by Marcel Alcala at 9pm in the gallery.
The show will be on display through December 8th, 11am-3pm and by appointment.
Contact: hrhrdeptdept@gmail.com
Closing Reception December 8th, 6-9pm.
@hostingprojects
Swampspace is an established artist run exhibition space and studio run by Oliver Sanchez in Miami’s Design District welcoming a show organized by emerging artists with their own practice of curating and roots in Miami.
Hosting Projects is an artist run duo, Harris Bauer and Rachel Zaretsky, based in New York and Los Angeles focused on facilitation, curation, collaboration and conversation generated by new works from artists.
Marcel Alcala (b. 1990 Santa Ana, CA) is a Mexican-American artist who creates events and encounters that upend the expectation of art as a discrete work exhibited for a specific period of time. They often collaborate with artists and specialists in fields such as science, literature, film, music, and architecture. Alcala ventures outside of institutional structures to contextualize their work in public space. Alcala’s diverse practice includes performance, live situations, installations, objects, and drawings. They graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, and currently live in Brooklyn, NY.
Diana Lozano (b. 1992 Cali, Colombia) received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2013. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn. She has shown at The General Consulate of Colombia in New York, Company Gallery, Fisher Parrish Gallery, AMO Studios, La Mama Galleria, Splatterpool Art Space, Casa Prado in Colombia, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco and Open Space in Baltimore.
Lucia Del Sanchez (b. 1992 Miami, FL) is a Cuban-Slovenian artist. Her artistic practice includes photography, performance, sculpture and painting, drawing from her familial history, migrations through various cities, and her experience as a child model in the early 90s. Her work traces a personal narrative with an eye towards archaeology, collection and observation as well as the fossilization of memory, to produce temporal poetics and protracted self portraits. She graduated from the Cooper Union in NYC, also studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Holland as well as the European Exchange Academy in Germany. Sanchez currently lives in Miami.
