Visions from Abroad

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - Sunday, April 27, 2008

Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 6-8 pm

Exhibition Dates: March 19 - April 27, 2008

Participating artists: Darlo Escobar, Gabriela Galvan, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Golamco, Patrick Hamilton, Daniel Joglar, Rachel Mason

These seven artists from Latin America and New York spend two weeks in Flushing to take the multi-cultural temperature of the community and create new works of contemporary art in response
to their experiences here. Art making will take place in the Main Gallery, affording us the opportunity to explore the process from conceptualization to realization with them.

Images: "Chiefs of State" by Rachel Mason (left) & "Second Nature" by Jeffrey Gibson


-About the Curator-

Omar Lopez-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT and the Royal Academy of Art in London. As an independent curator his exhibitions include: "Never Never Land," at the University Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL ; "Hash Brown Potatoes," at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY; and a curatorial project in connection with "Crossing the Line," at the Queens Museum of Art in Queens, NY.

He is one of the founders of The Brewster Project, a program of site specific installations in the town of Brewster, NY (2001-2002). He has also curated exhibitions at Cuchifritos and Artists Space both in NYC and has written essays for several publications including the catalogues for Dynasty (2006) and Rewind/ReCast/Review (2005).

Lopez-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel disscusions at Artists' Space; Art in General; P.S.1; The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He was a guest critic at Art Omi last year.

-About Artists-

Daniel Joglar

Daniel Joglar was born and grew up in Mar del Plata, and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has worked as a professor of Visual Arts at the Martin Malharro School.

His work has been shown globally, including exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas; Artists'Space, New York; Centro Colombo Americano de Bogota, Colombia and the 29th Biennial, Pontevedra, Spain.

Daniel completed residencies at Art Omi International Art Residency in New York and RIIA in Buenos Aires. He received three scholarships in Buenos Aires, namely from National Fund for the Arts, Antorchas Foundation, and a Guillermo Kuitca Young Artists' Scholarship. He is preparing for a special project for Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, taking place in October of this year.

Dario Escobar

Dario was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1971, where he lives and works.

His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in museums throughout the world, including: Metropolitan Cultural Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica; Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Dublin Museum, Ireland; Museum of Modern Art, Merida, Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina.

He has shown at galleries and other venues in Mexico, the United States, Chile, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, Spain, Holland and Italy. In addition, he has participated in bienals in Cuba (2003), Albania (2001), Dominican Republic (2001), Venezuela (2001), France (2000), Peru (1999), Guatemala (1998), and Ecuador (1998).

His art has been widely reviewed in books, magazines and monographs.

Gabriela Galv?

Gabriela was born in Mexico City in 1974, where she studied Visual Arts at the National Center of the Arts.

She uses drawings, sculpture, installation, and video to build her artistic pieces, sometimes tiny ones, that become complex and elaborated spatial inventions.

She has exhibited her work at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, and the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, both in Mexico City, Mexico; the Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; the K?stlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany and Reina Sofia National Art Museum, Madrid, Spain. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows in galleries and other venues in Poland, the United States, India, Spain and Japan, among others. No stranger to Queens, Gabriela participated in Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 at the Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY.

She took part in the International Studio and Curatorial Program of New York in 2006; and is working with the Art OMI, Chashama Residency Program in New York in 2007-08. She has received numerous other international fellowships.

Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and installation artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Jeffrey’s artworks have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, and art fairs. During the past year his paintings and sculptures were exhibited at The National Museum of the American Indian, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.

He is a 2005 recipient of a visual arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and recently completed a residency at The Art Omi International Artist Residency.

His work has been reviewed in various publications, including The New York Times, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, NY Arts Magazine, and has been featured on Bloomberg Television, NY One, and New Jersey Network TV.

Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Dust Gallery in Las Vegas and at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, and group exhibitions at The Institute of American Indian Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design, and a project for the Circa Art Fair in Puerto Rico.

Mark Golamco

Mark Golamco is an artist and musician who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and now works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

After studying art at the University of California, Los Angeles, Mark moved to Providence, Rhode Island and earned an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.

In 2007 Mark curated "Night Blooms: at the Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, which was followed, in 2008, by a recent solo exhibition of his work entitled "Cloak and Candle."

He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Patrick Hamilton

Born in 1974 in Lovaina, Belgium, Patrick lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

In 2006, he participated in a residency program funded by the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York. NY. In the following year, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation of New York, NY.

He has participated in the following Bienals: Fin del Mundo (End of the World), Pategonia (2007); Prague (2005); Sao Paulo (2004); Havana (2003); Cuenca (2001): MERCOSUR (1999). His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world, including: Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, California; Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Associazione Prometeo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Lucca. Italy; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; Museo de Arte Contempor?eo de Santiago, Chile.

His work is represented by Galleria Prometeo, Milan, Italy and Galeria KBK, Mexico City, Mexico.

Rachel Mason

Rachel Mason received her BA in Art from the University of California and her MFA from Yale University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as both a sculptor and a performance artist.

She has exhibited in museums, art galleries and other venues in California, New York, New Jersey, Washington State, Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, as well as in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy.

Her performances have taken place in California, Florida, New York, Connecticut and Illinois. She has performed internationally in Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.

Her work has been reviewed by The Los Angeles Times, The Korean Times, Art News, Art Forum, The New York Times, The Village Voice, among other publications.

She has received the Susan H. Whedon Award, the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, an Alice Kimball Fellowship and a Hoyt Fine Arts Scholarship, among other awards and scholarships.

This program is supported by the Dominick and Rose Ciampa Family Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and Queens Borough President Office.