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Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong><a title=\"Grimaldi Baez\'s website\" href=\"http://grimaldibaez.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grimaldi Baez</a>,</strong> a Puerto Rican born artist from Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015) can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Kilroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him to put this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jackhammers pounding the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation,  that there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cane II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back-breaking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bear witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she puts herself as a protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of the people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate the circumstances of those she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\n\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican-American artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work, though, is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bear.  In the form of a three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from his current neighborhood, he references Latino North Philadelphia.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtly imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer to walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate, is an artist who is not only interested in the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through, not just see it, causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power - by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1153\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16956028552_3d9dedc43b_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1153\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /> José Ortiz-Pagán, \"Exit #1\" (2015) String art and wood panel[/caption]\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United States form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortizp-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José </strong><strong>Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comments on the current state of affairs gripping the island: its economic troubles, the increasing migration of its citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrast with where he lives now, in the United States - a country that he sees as a colonizer that exacerbates Puerto Rico\'s problems by  unjustly asserting its will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán\'s aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post-industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with each other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation affecting his homeland.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1156\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769893180/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1156\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16769893180_6fc21c5508_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1156\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Miguel Antonio Horn, \"Guardian I\" (2015) 3D Printed ABS[/caption]\n\nWhere we sit in relation to power, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Guardian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eyesight on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot-tall police officer with shield of <em>Guardian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says on the underlying question that plagues not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American and a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests in Ferguson as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  With their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety of poses from sitting to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, cajalleros, in Spanish means people of the street. By making their faces indistinct it highlights their invisibility to us.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional. For both series, the foot-tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to the viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength; to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1148\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956032792/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1148\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/16956032792_37d3e600ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1148\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Michelle Angela Ortiz, \"Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atrás\" (2012) Cut wood, acrylic paint, high output lighting, straw hat and looped audio[/caption]\n\nPhiladelphia-born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from memories and personal stories in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remains Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with  cut out outlines of a shanty, represents the home where her deaf grandfather in Puerto Rico lived and, with a looped recording of her father singing, is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who was unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out, is what alienated her grandfather from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love; listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father used to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person returns to a better time without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for others is where she finds her place, and in this installation it is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1144\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931421426/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1144\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7589/16931421426_1a0743cfea_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1144\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Jaime Alvarez, \"Memento\" (2012) Framed archival inkjet prints[/caption]\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject of <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he mainly bought from second-hand stores are made bereft of sentimentality with plastip - dark tinted liquid rubber.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes are often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to them. Each photograph, side by side, then reflects on to the other that question of its own connection to memory and in turn our own connection to the objects.  He causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or its size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction. In <i>Memento </i>he confronts the power of nostalgia by forcing us to see without distractions, removing light and focusing on detail.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1132\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16957381375/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1132\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7654/16957381375_a641ccc9e8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1132\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Juan Bustamante, \"Escucha la Ciudad\" (2015) Water color, printed posters, and mix media installation[/caption]\n\nThe artist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(<em>Listen to the City </em>and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his co-founder, Greg Scruggs, for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in sound system culture from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his attraction to street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but place them in Philadelphia\'s backyard. To promote these events he creates hand drawn posters that he distributes across the city.  Working in this manner he says, brings him into direct contact with the artifacts people leave behind: from the yard sale signs to the lost cat signs, to commissioned street signs and graffiti. In these images he sees a rhythm in urban society taking shape which he reflects in his drawings and events.  As the part of the events he creates elaborate dj booths out of the hand drawn posters, postcards and ephemera he finds and which represents in his in installation at Taller.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us their fifth annual Tropicalismo event, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnations of Carnaval in Latin America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition, signifying, with his installation, the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor more information on this exhibition contact Rafael Damast at rdamast@tallerpr.org','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','publish','closed','closed','','filadelfia-new-perspectives','','','2015-04-21 09:51:42','2015-04-21 13:51:42','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"Grimaldi Baez\'s website\" href=\"http://grimaldibaez.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grimaldi Baez</a>,</strong> a Puerto Rican born artist from Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015) can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Kilroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him to put this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jackhammers pounding the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation,  that there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cane II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back-breaking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bear witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she puts herself as a protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of the people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate the circumstances of those she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican-American artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work, though, is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bear.  In the form of a three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from his current neighborhood, he references Latino North Philadelphia.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtly imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer to walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate, is an artist who is not only interested in the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through, not just see it, causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power - by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1153\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16956028552_3d9dedc43b_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1153\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /> José Ortiz-Pagán, \"Exit #1\" (2015) String art and wood panel[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United States form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortizp-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José </strong><strong>Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comments on the current state of affairs gripping the island: its economic troubles, the increasing migration of its citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrast with where he lives now, in the United States - a country that he sees as a colonizer that exacerbates Puerto Rico\'s problems by  unjustly asserting its will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán\'s aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post-industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with each other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation affecting his homeland.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1156\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769893180/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1156\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16769893180_6fc21c5508_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1156\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Miguel Antonio Horn, \"Guardian I\" (2015) 3D Printed ABS[/caption]\r\n\r\nWhere we sit in relation to power, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Guardian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eyesight on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot-tall police officer with shield of <em>Guardian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says on the underlying question that plagues not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American and a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests in Ferguson as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  With their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety of poses from sitting to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, cajalleros, in Spanish means people of the street. By making their faces indistinct it highlights their invisibility to us.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional. For both series, the foot-tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to the viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength; to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1148\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956032792/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1148\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/16956032792_37d3e600ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1148\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Michelle Angela Ortiz, \"Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atrás\" (2012) Cut wood, acrylic paint, high output lighting, straw hat and looped audio[/caption]\r\n\r\nPhiladelphia-born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from memories and personal stories in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remains Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with  cut out outlines of a shanty, represents the home where her deaf grandfather in Puerto Rico lived and, with a looped recording of her father singing, is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who was unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out, is what alienated her grandfather from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love; listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father used to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person returns to a better time without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for others is where she finds her place, and in this installation it is where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1144\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931421426/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1144\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7589/16931421426_1a0743cfea_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1144\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Jaime Alvarez, \"Memento\" (2012) Framed archival inkjet prints[/caption]\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject of <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he mainly bought from second-hand stores are made bereft of sentimentality with plastip - dark tinted liquid rubber.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes are often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to them. Each photograph, side by side, then reflects on to the other that question of its own connection to memory and in turn our own connection to the objects.  He causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or its size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction. In <i>Memento </i>he confronts the power of nostalgia by forcing us to see without distractions, removing light and focusing on detail.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1132\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16957381375/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1132\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7654/16957381375_a641ccc9e8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1132\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Juan Bustamante, \"Escucha la Ciudad\" (2015) Water color, printed posters, and mix media installation[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe artist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(<em>Listen to the City </em>and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his co-founder, Greg Scruggs, for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in sound system culture from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his attraction to street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but place them in Philadelphia\'s backyard. To promote these events he creates hand drawn posters that he distributes across the city.  Working in this manner he says, brings him into direct contact with the artifacts people leave behind: from the yard sale signs to the lost cat signs, to commissioned street signs and graffiti. In these images he sees a rhythm in urban society taking shape which he reflects in his drawings and events.  As the part of the events he creates elaborate dj booths out of the hand drawn posters, postcards and ephemera he finds and which represents in his in installation at Taller.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us their fifth annual Tropicalismo event, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnations of Carnaval in Latin America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition, signifying, with his installation, the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor more information on this exhibition contact Rafael Damast at rdamast@tallerpr.org',0,'http://tallerpr.org/?p=3318',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3320,2,'2015-03-27 12:49:28','2015-03-27 16:49:28','Noting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists examine their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Pueto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which utilizes mirrored two way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so in order to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to maintain peace or are they dressed suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and desire.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have been doing for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-27 12:49:28','2015-03-27 16:49:28','Noting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists examine their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Pueto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which utilizes mirrored two way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so in order to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to maintain peace or are they dressed suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and desire.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have been doing for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/27/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Pueto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which utilizes mirrored two way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so in order to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to maintain peace or are they dressed suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and desire.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have been doing for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-27 12:49:44','2015-03-27 16:49:44','Noting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists examine their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Pueto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which utilizes mirrored two way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so in order to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to maintain peace or are they dressed suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and desire.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have been doing for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/27/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3322,2,'2015-03-27 12:56:30','2015-03-27 16:56:30','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-27 12:56:30','2015-03-27 16:56:30','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <em>Tropacalismo</em> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/27/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3323,2,'2015-03-27 12:57:49','2015-03-27 16:57:49','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-27 12:57:49','2015-03-27 16:57:49','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also see the adult mind linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took to put this together, lost in the mechanical process and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong>Roxana Perez-Mendez’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and the situation they are in.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist of the work, embodying the pain and challenges of her protagonists.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of technique to stand just so to appreciate the plight of her characters and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhood.  But these signs, like the divider itself have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer.  Making the viewer walk around it to wonder what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nail and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it and red thread spilling to the floor, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: the economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, and that asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question to him of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I, </em>presents an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he sees a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into question ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be distant and weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot light box with a cut out outline of the house where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both simple and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community in Puerto Rico.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, art can give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in her installation is where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the focus in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <strong>Juan Bustamante</strong> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and street art makes his live events unique in Philadelphia.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be closing event for <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/27/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3324,2,'2015-03-29 09:22:47','2015-03-29 13:22:47','<strong>March 17<sup>th</sup>, 2015</strong>\n\n<strong>For Immediate Release</strong>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3074\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TROPICALISMOsolo20151-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"TROPICALISMOsolo2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location and date:</strong>   Friday, March 27th, 2015, 7:00 PM</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA  19133</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">$10 Suggested Donation</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Website</strong>: <a href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\">http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/</a></p>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1351\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"152\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1351\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ed.-Building-Circle-300x300.png\" alt=\"Education Building\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" /> The Roberto Hernández Theater 2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia,[/caption]\n\n<strong>Tropicalismo</strong> presents a celebration of Carnaval, hosted and curated by Juanderful (Juan Bustamante) and Gregzinho (Greg Scruggs), the adventurous DJ pair behind Tropicalismo. The event will be held in Taller Puertorriqueño’s Roberto P. Hernández Theater as a closing party for <a title=\"Filadelfia: New Perspectives\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Filadelfia: New Perspectives</em></a>  –  a group exhibition of Latino artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art in Philadelphia. The exhibition is now on view through April 4th.\n\nAs an expression of music, folklore, costume, food, and dance, Carnival represents local culture at its richest. The traditional pre-Lent celebration of Catholic Europe is now a global phenomenon that is especially strong in Latin America and the Caribbean. Carnival has also taken root in cities home to immigrant populations who use the event to share their heritage, and Philadelphia is certainly no exception. Join Tropicalismo, Philly’s leading platform for Afro-Latin-Caribbean culture, as they explore the unique Carnival traditions of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection — from Mummers to Carnaval de Puebla to Philly Caribbean Carnival to Brazilian and Puerto Rican celebrations — with an interactive salon on Carnaval culture featuring presentations from local artists and organizers, a live demonstration of Puerto Rican Carnival rhythms, visual displays, festive food and refreshments, live dancers, and of course the soundtrack that keeps the Carnaval massive partying in the streets.\n\n<strong>Featured guests:</strong>\n\nEdgar Ramirez, San Mateo Carnavalero; Sheila Buchanan, Jesse Engaard, Rabble Rousers NYB; Caribbean American Heritage Foundation of Pennsylvania; Alex Shaw, Alô Brasil; and  Los Bomberos de la Calle\n\n<strong>With special guests:</strong>\n\nJaime Alvarez, Grimaldi Baez, Miguel Antonio Horn, Mark C. Martinez, Michelle Angela Ortiz, José Ortiz Pagán, and Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez\n\n*The party proceeds will benefit Taller’s many cultural programs and keep Tropicalismo going!\n\n**FREE parking across the street in the municipal parking lot.\n\n<strong>About Tropicalismo</strong>\n\nFounded in 2010, Tropicalismo is the city’s first platform dedicated to both old-school rhythms and nu-skool riddims from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Co-curators Juanderful and Gregzinho have provided Philly a multisensory experience of life in our hemisphere at storied venues such as Walnut Room, Fluid, Silk City, Underground Arts, Dahlak Paradise, and the Calvary Center for Culture and Community. Guests get down to the sounds that bump out of makeshift buses and Carnival sound systems alike all across the Americas. They taste local food that fuels late nights on the dance floor, usually from small businesses in Philly\'s growing immigrant hubs, and experience the cultural events and holidays that mark the year for different communities, from Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) to Carnival.\n\nTwitter: @TropicalismoPHL                     Facebook: <a title=\"Tropicalismo\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial</a>\n\n<strong>About Taller</strong>\n\nTaller Puertorriqueño, Inc. (Taller) is a community-based cultural organization whose primary purpose is to preserve, develop and promote Puerto Rican arts and culture, grounded in the conviction that embracing one\'s cultural heritage is central to community empowerment.  Taller is also committed to the representation and support of other Latino cultural expressions and our common roots.\n\nTaller was founded in 1974 in Northwest Kensington, Philadelphia as a graphic arts workshop to provide a creative outlet and cultural education for community youth. Today, four decades later, our organization is the longest-operating and largest Latino arts and cultural organization in the Philadelphia region.\n\nTwitter: @TALLERPR                Facebook: <a title=\"Taller Puertorrequeño\" href=\"Facebook.com/tallerpr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/tallerpr.org</a>\n\n<strong>CONTACT</strong>\n\nRafael Damast\n\nCurator  &amp; Visual Arts Program Manager\n\nTaller Puertorriqueño\n\nrdamast@tallerpr.org\n\n215-426-3311\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/tallerpr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3252\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Twitter_logo_blue.png\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_blue\" width=\"80\" height=\"65\" /></a>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“.@TallerPR and @TropicalismoPHL team up for a Carnaval extravaganza!”</span></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Carnaval en Philly! Join @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL for a dance party!”</span></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Grab some friends, and dance the night away Carnaval style with @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL!”</span></p>','Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”','','inherit','closed','closed','','3248-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 09:22:47','2015-03-29 13:22:47','<strong>March 17<sup>th</sup>, 2015</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>For Immediate Release</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3074\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TROPICALISMOsolo20151-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"TROPICALISMOsolo2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location and date:</strong>   Friday, March 27th, 2015, 7:00 PM</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA  19133</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">$10 Suggested Donation</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Website</strong>: <a href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\">http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/</a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1351\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"152\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1351\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ed.-Building-Circle-300x300.png\" alt=\"Education Building\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" /> The Roberto Hernández Theater 2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia,[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Tropicalismo</strong> presents a celebration of Carnaval, hosted and curated by Juanderful (Juan Bustamante) and Gregzinho (Greg Scruggs), the adventurous DJ pair behind Tropicalismo. The event will be held in Taller Puertorriqueño’s Roberto P. Hernández Theater as a closing party for <a title=\"Filadelfia: New Perspectives\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Filadelfia: New Perspectives</em></a>  –  a group exhibition of Latino artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art in Philadelphia. The exhibition is now on view through April 4th.\r\n\r\nAs an expression of music, folklore, costume, food, and dance, Carnival represents local culture at its richest. The traditional pre-Lent celebration of Catholic Europe is now a global phenomenon that is especially strong in Latin America and the Caribbean. Carnival has also taken root in cities home to immigrant populations who use the event to share their heritage, and Philadelphia is certainly no exception. Join Tropicalismo, Philly’s leading platform for Afro-Latin-Caribbean culture, as they explore the unique Carnival traditions of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection — from Mummers to Carnaval de Puebla to Philly Caribbean Carnival to Brazilian and Puerto Rican celebrations — with an interactive salon on Carnaval culture featuring presentations from local artists and organizers, a live demonstration of Puerto Rican Carnival rhythms, visual displays, festive food and refreshments, live dancers, and of course the soundtrack that keeps the Carnaval massive partying in the streets.\r\n\r\n<strong>Featured guests:</strong>\r\n\r\nEdgar Ramirez, San Mateo Carnavalero; Sheila Buchanan, Jesse Engaard, Rabble Rousers NYB; Caribbean American Heritage Foundation of Pennsylvania; Alex Shaw, Alô Brasil; and  Los Bomberos de la Calle\r\n\r\n<strong>With special guests:</strong>\r\n\r\nJaime Alvarez, Grimaldi Baez, Miguel Antonio Horn, Mark C. Martinez, Michelle Angela Ortiz, José Ortiz Pagán, and Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez\r\n\r\n*The party proceeds will benefit Taller’s many cultural programs and keep Tropicalismo going!\r\n\r\n**FREE parking across the street in the municipal parking lot.\r\n\r\n<strong>About Tropicalismo</strong>\r\n\r\nFounded in 2010, Tropicalismo is the city’s first platform dedicated to both old-school rhythms and nu-skool riddims from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Co-curators Juanderful and Gregzinho have provided Philly a multisensory experience of life in our hemisphere at storied venues such as Walnut Room, Fluid, Silk City, Underground Arts, Dahlak Paradise, and the Calvary Center for Culture and Community. Guests get down to the sounds that bump out of makeshift buses and Carnival sound systems alike all across the Americas. They taste local food that fuels late nights on the dance floor, usually from small businesses in Philly\'s growing immigrant hubs, and experience the cultural events and holidays that mark the year for different communities, from Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) to Carnival.\r\n\r\nTwitter: @TropicalismoPHL                     Facebook: <a title=\"Tropicalismo\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>About Taller</strong>\r\n\r\nTaller Puertorriqueño, Inc. (Taller) is a community-based cultural organization whose primary purpose is to preserve, develop and promote Puerto Rican arts and culture, grounded in the conviction that embracing one\'s cultural heritage is central to community empowerment.  Taller is also committed to the representation and support of other Latino cultural expressions and our common roots.\r\n\r\nTaller was founded in 1974 in Northwest Kensington, Philadelphia as a graphic arts workshop to provide a creative outlet and cultural education for community youth. Today, four decades later, our organization is the longest-operating and largest Latino arts and cultural organization in the Philadelphia region.\r\n\r\nTwitter: @TALLERPR                Facebook: <a title=\"Taller Puertorrequeño\" href=\"Facebook.com/tallerpr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/tallerpr.org</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>CONTACT</strong>\r\n\r\nRafael Damast\r\n\r\nCurator  &amp; Visual Arts Program Manager\r\n\r\nTaller Puertorriqueño\r\n\r\nrdamast@tallerpr.org\r\n\r\n215-426-3311\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/tallerpr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3252\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Twitter_logo_blue.png\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_blue\" width=\"80\" height=\"65\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“.@TallerPR and @TropicalismoPHL team up for a Carnaval extravaganza!”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Carnaval en Philly! Join @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL for a dance party!”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Grab some friends, and dance the night away Carnaval style with @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL!”</span></p>',3248,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3248-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3325,2,'2015-03-29 09:58:50','2015-03-29 13:58:50','<strong>March 17<sup>th</sup>, 2015</strong>\n\n<strong>For Immediate Release</strong>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3074\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TROPICALISMOsolo20151-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"TROPICALISMOsolo2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location and date:</strong>   Friday, March 27th, 2015, 7:00 PM</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA  19133</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">$10 Suggested Donation</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Website</strong>: <a href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\">http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/</a></p>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1351\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"152\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1351\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ed.-Building-Circle-300x300.png\" alt=\"Education Building\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" /> The Roberto Hernández Theater 2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia,[/caption]\n\n<strong>Tropicalismo</strong> presents a celebration of Carnaval, hosted and curated by Juanderful (Juan Bustamante) and Gregzinho (Greg Scruggs), the adventurous DJ pair behind Tropicalismo. The event will be held in Taller Puertorriqueño’s Roberto P. Hernández Theater as a closing party for <a title=\"Filadelfia: New Perspectives\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Filadelfia: New Perspectives</em></a>  –  a group exhibition of Latino artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art in Philadelphia. The exhibition is now on view through April 4th.\n\n<a title=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16964992002/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/16964992002_28586aca17.jpg\" alt=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\n\nAs an expression of music, folklore, costume, food, and dance, Carnival represents local culture at its richest. The traditional pre-Lent celebration of Catholic Europe is now a global phenomenon that is especially strong in Latin America and the Caribbean. Carnival has also taken root in cities home to immigrant populations who use the event to share their heritage, and Philadelphia is certainly no exception. Join Tropicalismo, Philly’s leading platform for Afro-Latin-Caribbean culture, as they explore the unique Carnival traditions of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection — from Mummers to Carnaval de Puebla to Philly Caribbean Carnival to Brazilian and Puerto Rican celebrations — with an interactive salon on Carnaval culture featuring presentations from local artists and organizers, a live demonstration of Puerto Rican Carnival rhythms, visual displays, festive food and refreshments, live dancers, and of course the soundtrack that keeps the Carnaval massive partying in the streets.\n\n<strong>Featured guests:</strong>\n\n<a title=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16965369831/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7622/16965369831_2f3cc62019_m.jpg\" alt=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\" /></a>Edgar Ramirez, San Mateo Carnavalero; Sheila Buchanan, Jesse Engaard, Rabble Rousers NYB; Caribbean American Heritage Foundation of Pennsylvania; Alex Shaw, Alô Brasil; and  Los Bomberos de la Calle\n\n<strong>With special guests:</strong>\n\nJaime Alvarez, Grimaldi Baez, Miguel Antonio Horn, Mark C. Martinez, Michelle Angela Ortiz, José Ortiz Pagán, and Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez\n\n*The party proceeds will benefit Taller’s many cultural programs and keep Tropicalismo going!\n\n**FREE parking across the street in the municipal parking lot.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPhotos of the event are <a title=\"Flickr Album\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tpr_visual_arts/sets/72157649297709934/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<strong>About Tropicalismo</strong>\n\nFounded in 2010, Tropicalismo is the city’s first platform dedicated to both old-school rhythms and nu-skool riddims from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Co-curators Juanderful and Gregzinho have provided Philly a multisensory experience of life in our hemisphere at storied venues such as Walnut Room, Fluid, Silk City, Underground Arts, Dahlak Paradise, and the Calvary Center for Culture and Community. Guests get down to the sounds that bump out of makeshift buses and Carnival sound systems alike all across the Americas. They taste local food that fuels late nights on the dance floor, usually from small businesses in Philly\'s growing immigrant hubs, and experience the cultural events and holidays that mark the year for different communities, from Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) to Carnival.\n\nTwitter: @TropicalismoPHL                     Facebook: <a title=\"Tropicalismo\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial</a>\n\n<strong>About Taller</strong>\n\nTaller Puertorriqueño, Inc. (Taller) is a community-based cultural organization whose primary purpose is to preserve, develop and promote Puerto Rican arts and culture, grounded in the conviction that embracing one\'s cultural heritage is central to community empowerment.  Taller is also committed to the representation and support of other Latino cultural expressions and our common roots.\n\nTaller was founded in 1974 in Northwest Kensington, Philadelphia as a graphic arts workshop to provide a creative outlet and cultural education for community youth. Today, four decades later, our organization is the longest-operating and largest Latino arts and cultural organization in the Philadelphia region.\n\nTwitter: @TALLERPR                Facebook: <a title=\"Taller Puertorrequeño\" href=\"Facebook.com/tallerpr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/tallerpr.org</a>\n\n<strong>CONTACT</strong>\n\nRafael Damast\n\nCurator  &amp; Visual Arts Program Manager\n\nTaller Puertorriqueño\n\nrdamast@tallerpr.org\n\n215-426-3311\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/tallerpr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3252\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Twitter_logo_blue.png\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_blue\" width=\"80\" height=\"65\" /></a>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“.@TallerPR and @TropicalismoPHL team up for a Carnaval extravaganza!”</span></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Carnaval en Philly! Join @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL for a dance party!”</span></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Grab some friends, and dance the night away Carnaval style with @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL!”</span></p>','Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”','','inherit','closed','closed','','3248-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 09:58:50','2015-03-29 13:58:50','<strong>March 17<sup>th</sup>, 2015</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>For Immediate Release</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3074\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TROPICALISMOsolo20151-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"TROPICALISMOsolo2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location and date:</strong>   Friday, March 27th, 2015, 7:00 PM</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA  19133</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">$10 Suggested Donation</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Website</strong>: <a href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\">http://tallerpr.org/event/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/</a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1351\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"152\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1351\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ed.-Building-Circle-300x300.png\" alt=\"Education Building\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" /> The Roberto Hernández Theater 2557 N. 5th St., Philadelphia,[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Tropicalismo</strong> presents a celebration of Carnaval, hosted and curated by Juanderful (Juan Bustamante) and Gregzinho (Greg Scruggs), the adventurous DJ pair behind Tropicalismo. The event will be held in Taller Puertorriqueño’s Roberto P. Hernández Theater as a closing party for <a title=\"Filadelfia: New Perspectives\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/event/filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Filadelfia: New Perspectives</em></a>  –  a group exhibition of Latino artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art in Philadelphia. The exhibition is now on view through April 4th.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16964992002/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/16964992002_28586aca17.jpg\" alt=\"20150327-_DSC2129\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs an expression of music, folklore, costume, food, and dance, Carnival represents local culture at its richest. The traditional pre-Lent celebration of Catholic Europe is now a global phenomenon that is especially strong in Latin America and the Caribbean. Carnival has also taken root in cities home to immigrant populations who use the event to share their heritage, and Philadelphia is certainly no exception. Join Tropicalismo, Philly’s leading platform for Afro-Latin-Caribbean culture, as they explore the unique Carnival traditions of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection — from Mummers to Carnaval de Puebla to Philly Caribbean Carnival to Brazilian and Puerto Rican celebrations — with an interactive salon on Carnaval culture featuring presentations from local artists and organizers, a live demonstration of Puerto Rican Carnival rhythms, visual displays, festive food and refreshments, live dancers, and of course the soundtrack that keeps the Carnaval massive partying in the streets.\r\n\r\n<strong>Featured guests:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16965369831/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7622/16965369831_2f3cc62019_m.jpg\" alt=\"20150327-_DSC2446\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\" /></a>Edgar Ramirez, San Mateo Carnavalero; Sheila Buchanan, Jesse Engaard, Rabble Rousers NYB; Caribbean American Heritage Foundation of Pennsylvania; Alex Shaw, Alô Brasil; and  Los Bomberos de la Calle\r\n\r\n<strong>With special guests:</strong>\r\n\r\nJaime Alvarez, Grimaldi Baez, Miguel Antonio Horn, Mark C. Martinez, Michelle Angela Ortiz, José Ortiz Pagán, and Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez\r\n\r\n*The party proceeds will benefit Taller’s many cultural programs and keep Tropicalismo going!\r\n\r\n**FREE parking across the street in the municipal parking lot.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPhotos of the event are <a title=\"Flickr Album\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tpr_visual_arts/sets/72157649297709934/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>About Tropicalismo</strong>\r\n\r\nFounded in 2010, Tropicalismo is the city’s first platform dedicated to both old-school rhythms and nu-skool riddims from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Co-curators Juanderful and Gregzinho have provided Philly a multisensory experience of life in our hemisphere at storied venues such as Walnut Room, Fluid, Silk City, Underground Arts, Dahlak Paradise, and the Calvary Center for Culture and Community. Guests get down to the sounds that bump out of makeshift buses and Carnival sound systems alike all across the Americas. They taste local food that fuels late nights on the dance floor, usually from small businesses in Philly\'s growing immigrant hubs, and experience the cultural events and holidays that mark the year for different communities, from Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) to Carnival.\r\n\r\nTwitter: @TropicalismoPHL                     Facebook: <a title=\"Tropicalismo\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/groups/Tropicalismo.Mundial</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>About Taller</strong>\r\n\r\nTaller Puertorriqueño, Inc. (Taller) is a community-based cultural organization whose primary purpose is to preserve, develop and promote Puerto Rican arts and culture, grounded in the conviction that embracing one\'s cultural heritage is central to community empowerment.  Taller is also committed to the representation and support of other Latino cultural expressions and our common roots.\r\n\r\nTaller was founded in 1974 in Northwest Kensington, Philadelphia as a graphic arts workshop to provide a creative outlet and cultural education for community youth. Today, four decades later, our organization is the longest-operating and largest Latino arts and cultural organization in the Philadelphia region.\r\n\r\nTwitter: @TALLERPR                Facebook: <a title=\"Taller Puertorrequeño\" href=\"Facebook.com/tallerpr.org\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com/tallerpr.org</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>CONTACT</strong>\r\n\r\nRafael Damast\r\n\r\nCurator  &amp; Visual Arts Program Manager\r\n\r\nTaller Puertorriqueño\r\n\r\nrdamast@tallerpr.org\r\n\r\n215-426-3311\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/tallerpr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3252\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Twitter_logo_blue.png\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_blue\" width=\"80\" height=\"65\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“.@TallerPR and @TropicalismoPHL team up for a Carnaval extravaganza!”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Carnaval en Philly! Join @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL for a dance party!”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">“Grab some friends, and dance the night away Carnaval style with @TallerPR &amp; @TropicalismoPHL!”</span></p>',3248,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3248-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3326,2,'2015-03-29 14:30:20','2015-03-29 18:30:20','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n<a title=\"Grimaldi Baez\'s website\" href=\"http://grimaldibaez.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Grimaldi Baez</strong></a>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña <a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:30:20','2015-03-29 18:30:20','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Grimaldi Baez\'s website\" href=\"http://grimaldibaez.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Grimaldi Baez</strong></a>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña <a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>\r\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3327,2,'2015-03-29 14:43:32','2015-03-29 18:43:32','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3281 size-large\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n<strong><a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña <a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<strong><a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José </strong></a><strong><a title=\"DSC_1150\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769672488/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1150\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7616/16769672488_f1a058d279_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1150\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\n<a title=\"DSC_1156\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769893180/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1156\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16769893180_6fc21c5508_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1156\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a>Where we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas<a title=\"DSC_1148\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956032792/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1148\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/16956032792_37d3e600ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1148\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\n<a title=\"DSC_1144\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931421426/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1144\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7589/16931421426_1a0743cfea_n.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1144\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" /></a>For the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la <a title=\"DSC_1132\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16957381375/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1132\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7654/16957381375_a641ccc9e8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1132\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.\n\nFor more information on the exhibition contact Rafael Damast at rdamast@tallerpr.org','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:43:32','2015-03-29 18:43:32','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3281 size-large\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña <a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>\r\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<strong><a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José </strong></a><strong><a title=\"DSC_1150\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769672488/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1150\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7616/16769672488_f1a058d279_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1150\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Ortiz-Pagán</strong>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"DSC_1156\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769893180/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1156\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16769893180_6fc21c5508_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1156\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a>Where we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas<a title=\"DSC_1148\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956032792/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1148\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/16956032792_37d3e600ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1148\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"DSC_1144\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931421426/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1144\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7589/16931421426_1a0743cfea_n.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1144\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" /></a>For the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la <a title=\"DSC_1132\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16957381375/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1132\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7654/16957381375_a641ccc9e8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1132\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.\r\n\r\nFor more information on the exhibition contact Rafael Damast at rdamast@tallerpr.org',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3328,2,'2015-04-09 15:01:39','2015-04-09 19:01:39','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong><a title=\"Grimaldi Baez\'s website\" href=\"http://grimaldibaez.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grimaldi Baez</a>\'</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015) can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Kilroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him to put this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jackhammers pounding the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation,  that there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cane II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back-breaking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bear witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she puts herself as a protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of the people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate the circumstances of those she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\n\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican-American artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work, though, is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bear.  In the form of a three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from his current neighborhood, he references Latino North Philadelphia.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtly imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer to walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate, is an artist who is not only interested in the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through, not just see it, causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power - by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1153\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16956028552_3d9dedc43b_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1153\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /> José Ortiz-Pagán, \"Exit #1\" (2015) String art and wood panel[/caption]\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United States form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortizp-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José </strong><strong>Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comments on the current state of affairs gripping the island: its economic troubles, the increasing migration of its citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrast with where he lives now, in the United States - a country that he sees as a colonizer that exacerbates Puerto Rico\'s problems by  unjustly asserting its will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán\'s aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post-industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with each other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation affecting his homeland.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1156\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769893180/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1156\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8700/16769893180_6fc21c5508_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1156\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Miguel Antonio Horn, \"Guardian I\" (2015) 3D Printed ABS[/caption]\n\nWhere we sit in relation to power, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Guardian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eyesight on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot-tall police officer with shield of <em>Guardian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says on the underlying question that plagues not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American and a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests in Ferguson as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  With their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety of poses from sitting to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, cajalleros, in Spanish means people of the street. By making their faces indistinct it highlights their invisibility to us.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional. For both series, the foot-tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to the viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength; to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"160\"]<a title=\"DSC_1148\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956032792/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1148\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7595/16956032792_37d3e600ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1148\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a> Michelle Angela Ortiz, \"Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atrás\" (2012) Cut wood, acrylic paint, high output lighting, straw hat and looped audio[/caption]\n\nPhiladelphia-born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from memories and personal stories in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remains Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with  cut out outlines of a shanty, represents the home where her deaf grandfather in Puerto Rico lived and, with a looped recording of her father singing, is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who was unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out, is what alienated her grandfather from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love; listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father used to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person returns to a better time without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for others is where she finds her place, and in this installation it is where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1144\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931421426/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1144\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7589/16931421426_1a0743cfea_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1144\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Jaime Alvarez, \"Memento\" (2012) Framed archival inkjet prints[/caption]\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject of <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he mainly bought from second-hand stores are made bereft of sentimentality with plastip - dark tinted liquid rubber.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes are often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to them. Each photograph, side by side, then reflects on to the other that question of its own connection to memory and in turn our own connection to the objects.  He causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or its size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction. In <i>Memento </i>he confronts the power of nostalgia by forcing us to see without distractions, removing light and focusing on detail.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1132\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16957381375/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1132\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7654/16957381375_a641ccc9e8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1132\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Juan Bustamante, \"Escucha la Ciudad\" (2015) Water color, printed posters, and mix media installation[/caption]\n\nThe artist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(<em>Listen to the City </em>and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his co-founder, Greg Scruggs, for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in sound system culture from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his attraction to street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but place them in Philadelphia\'s backyard. To promote these events he creates hand drawn posters that he distributes across the city.  Working in this manner he says, brings him into direct contact with the artifacts people leave behind: from the yard sale signs to the lost cat signs, to commissioned street signs and graffiti. In these images he sees a rhythm in urban society taking shape which he reflects in his drawings and events.  As the part of the events he creates elaborate dj booths out of the hand drawn posters, postcards and ephemera he finds and which represents in his in installatThe booth   Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us their fifth annual Tropicalismo event, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnations of Carnaval in Latin America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition, signifying, with his installation, the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor more information on this exhibition contact Rafael Damast at rdamast@tallerpr.org','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-autosave-v1','','','2015-04-09 15:01:39','2015-04-09 19:01:39','',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3329,2,'2015-03-29 14:45:56','2015-03-29 18:45:56','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:45:56','2015-03-29 18:45:56','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña\r\nII (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3330,2,'2015-03-29 14:47:24','2015-03-29 18:47:24','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:47:24','2015-03-29 18:47:24','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mark C. Martinez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.mark-martinez.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a>Mark C. Martinez</strong></a> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3331,2,'2015-03-29 14:48:10','2015-03-29 18:48:10','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:48:10','2015-03-29 18:48:10','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3332,2,'2015-03-29 14:48:45','2015-03-29 18:48:45','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:48:45','2015-03-29 18:48:45','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (3333,2,'2015-03-29 14:50:35','2015-03-29 18:50:35','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\n\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\n\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\n\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\n\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\n\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\n\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\n\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\n\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José <a title=\"DSC_1153\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956028552/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1153\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16956028552_3d9dedc43b_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1153\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a>Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\n\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\n\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\n\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\n\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\n\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\n\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\n\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\n\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.','Filadelfia: New Perspectives','','inherit','closed','closed','','3318-revision-v1','','','2015-03-29 14:50:35','2015-03-29 18:50:35','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" src=\"http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Filadelfia-Exhibition-WP-Slider-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Filadelfia Exhibition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" /></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">March 6 to April 4, 2015</h3>\r\nNoting that the Spanish name for Philadelphia, <em>Filadelfia</em>, is similar in spelling and sound but implies a foreign perspective, this exhibition highlights the views of a select group of eight Latino artists living in the city. Working in installation, sculpture, video, photography, and quasi-relational aesthetics, these artists check their connections to places and objects, social markers and urban environments, the nature and relationship of power in society, and the role of history and migration in shaping identity. Informed and formed by their distinct histories and experiences, these artists share their vision and offer us <em>New Perspectives</em>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1124\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16931437356/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1124\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16931437356_bdfe23a6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1124\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Grimaldi Baez, \"Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor\" (2015) Crayon and pencil[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Grimaldi Baez</strong>, a Puerto Rican born artist who grew up in grew Massachusetts, crayon and pencil wall drawing, <em>Anatomy of a Handsome Sailor </em>(2015), can be viewed as a statement to his virtuosity as a draftsman and to the flirtations of his youth.  Made with spiraling humor and whimsy it echoes with familiar characters the imagination of childhood.  We see in the wall the vestiges of Killroy, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and the crawling of ants like ripples of memory, and yet through the layered spirals in yellow and blue we also note the adult mind at work linking the seemingly arbitrary lines like a long string of thoughts into fleeting ideas. But to Baez, the work represents a record of the four hours it took for him this together, lost in the mechanical process of drawing and in the background sound of jack hammering in the street.\r\n\r\nYet, in further analysis Baez acknowledges in his description of the work the greater complexity of his creation.  That there are elements to “love” and to “study” and admire in what may other wise be a “generic man.”  Once the exhibition is over, the work will be painted over and it will become memory with its traces outlined in documentation and anecdotes.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1170\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16337257893/\"><img style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1170\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16337257893_168dd8d9d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1170\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez, \"Cortando Cana II\" (2014) Pepper’s Ghost Hologram and mixed media[/caption]\r\n\r\nWith the field song and rhythmic sound of slashing and hacking we come to <strong><a title=\"Roxana J. Pérez-Méndez website\" href=\"http://roxanaperez-mendez.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roxana Perez-Mendez</a>’</strong>s <em>Cortando Caña II (Cutting Cain II) </em>(2014), a single channel video installation with air plants.   The video installation uses an old theater trick called the Pepper’s Ghost Hologram, which uses mirrored two-way glass that when standing directly in front of the work creates a three dimensional effect.  In this work we see multiples of the same woman cutting and slashing stalks of cane that are represented by the air plants. The “women” are toiling in the black field of the screen while a Spanish hymn hauntingly plays in the background, Psalm 29, as if in prayer for deliverance from the back braking work and a difficult life.  Standing before this holographic work that almost slips into reality the viewer is forced to bare witness to what must be the daily drudgery of their life.  Yet, in their faces and movements exists an inner strength and resilience.\r\n\r\nPerez-Mendez is an artist whose work focuses on the experiences that shape immigrant identity that she sees specifically through her lens as a Puerto Rican woman.  In her work she put her self as the protagonist, embodying the pain and challenges of people she depicts.  The audience is always implicated, forced by the method of her technique to stand just so to appreciate circumstances of the people she is \"embodying\" and maybe just wonder what they can do.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\"]<a title=\"DSC_1125\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16769916790/\"><img style=\"float: left;\" title=\"DSC_1125\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7612/16769916790_4e07609b6e_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1125\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" /></a> Mark C Martinez, \"Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA\" (2015) Mixed media on canvas.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>Mark C. Martinez</strong> as both a Korean and Puerto Rican artist is also interested in exploring the power of identity in shaping perceptions.   His work though is both abstract and concrete, referring to objects and images that permeate his life and memory.  In his three-dimensional work for the show, <em>Hinesville, GA to Philadelphia, PA </em>(2015), he brings elegantly these references to bare.  In the form of three-panel screen he evokes the memory of the divider that was in his home in Georgia. In the neon junk car signs papering the face of the divider he took from the area he lives now, he references North Philadelphia’s Latino neighborhoods.  But these signs, like the divider itself, have been internalized and transmuted by his experiences. The signs have been cut and reworked into puns, gibberish, and forms of color and light and combined with the physicality of the divider subtlety imposing its presence on the viewer: forcing the viewer walk around it in wonder of what lies behind it, or what is being hidden.\r\n\r\nMartinez, a recent Tyler School of Art graduate is an artist who is not only interested on the surfaces of his work but also in the way we interact with it.  His artistic investigation often creates an environment that makes the viewer move through and around the work, now just see it.  Causing the viewer to question their relationship to his work that borders on experience.  Martinez describes his process as an investigation into identity and the dynamics of power, by blending sculpture, painting, collage and decollage he aims to do so.\r\n\r\nThe realities and the power relationship between his native Puerto Rico and the United State form the basis of <a title=\"José Ortiz-Pagán\'s website\" href=\"http://corruptedtime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>José <a title=\"DSC_1153\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58941148@N03/16956028552/\" rel=\"\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_1153\" src=\"http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16956028552_3d9dedc43b_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1153\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" /></a>Ortiz-Pagán</strong></a>’s current work, <em>Exit #1 </em>(2015<em>)</em>.  The work, made with nails and red thread to form the contours of the island of Puerto Rico with the word “Exit” neatly spelled in it, comment on the current state of affairs griping the island: its economic troubles, the migration of it citizens, and the high crime rate. For Ortiz-Pagán, the problems affecting his home, where his family lives, contrasts with where he lives now, in Philadelphia, in the United States. A country that he sees as a colonizer of Puerto Rico, that unjustly asserts it will to control the politics and freedom of his people.\r\n\r\nOrtiz-Pagán aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post industrial realities” that affect the tropics.  Time and power dynamics he sees are always at play, corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with other.  In considering the migration aspect of <em>Exit #1, </em>it is too as much a question he asks himself of what he is doing here as it is an expression of the situation of his homeland.\r\n\r\nWhere we sit to power, lack of it or too much, is the focus of <a title=\"Miguel Antonio Horn\'s website\" href=\"http://miguelantoniohorn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miguel Antonio Horn</strong></a>’s two sculpture pieces <em>Gaurdian I </em>(2015) and <em>Cajalleros</em> (2015).  Situated just over our eye site on a slender iron pedestal, the fully armored foot tall police officer with shield of <em>Gaurdian</em> <em>I </em>conveys an ominous sense of menace.  It is commentary he says to the underlying question that plague not just American society but the world in general with the increasing militarization of police forces.  As an American but also as a Colombian/Venezuelan he recognizes a similarity in the way that police dress and conduct themselves in answer to protests such as in Ferguson, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela.  Are the police, he asks, dressed to keep peace or are they dressed to suppress dissent?  He draws into focus that with their armor on, and the anonymity that their mask provides, that question becomes increasingly difficult to answer.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, <em>Cajalleros</em>, a series of cast concrete figures set across the floor of the gallery in a variety poses from sitting, to standing to lying seemingly unconscious, is of the forgotten and invisible of society.  The name, callerjeros, in Spanish means people of the street. And by making the faces indistinct references to how they are seen, which is barely.  For Horn, the use of scale is also intentional, for both series, the foot tall size of the sculptures and the relative position to viewer puts into relation ideas of power.  To stand above the eye line, is to look down with strength, to be below the eye line is to be removed and presented as weak.  The way the figures stand, also conveys that persons power.  Horn in these two series brings our humanity into question in the way see each other and behave.\r\n\r\nMemories and personal stories is where Philadelphia born <a title=\"Michelle Angela Ortiz\'s website\" href=\"http://www.michelleangela.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Angela Ortiz </strong></a>draws from in her installation <em>Quizas Mañana Nuestro Llanto Quede Atras (Hopefully Tomorrow our Sorrow Remain Behind Us) (2012). </em>The installation, an eight-foot square light box with a cut out outlines of a shanty represents the home where her deaf grand father in Puerto Rico lived, and with looped recording of her father singing is a meditation on family bonds and longing for something better.  The work is both elegant and powerful. It tells the story of a son who although blessed with a lovely voice could not offer comfort to his father who is unable to hear.  This distinction, Ortiz points out is what ostracized her grand father from his community on the island.  The song “Amor Adios” (Goodbye My Love,  listen to it <a title=\"Amor Adios \" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/michelleangela-1/amor-adios\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>) is what her father use to sing to his father.  It is ballad of longing and of wishing that the person return to a better time and without suffering. Ortiz in her installation creates an atmosphere of sadness but one that also embodies hope and want.\r\n\r\nOrtiz, who is a prominent muralist, is an artist who sees art as a playing an active role in society. In her work, she strives to give back to communities the stories and the culture that she often sees co-opted by an uncaring dominant Anglo culture.  Finding this humanness, and sense of respect for other is where she finds her place, and in this installation it where she hopes we find our compassion.\r\n\r\nFor the Puerto Rican born photographer <a title=\"Jaime Alvarez\'s website\" href=\"http://www.jaimephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Alvarez</strong></a> removing the relationship to objects as codified by memory is the subject in <em>Memento </em>(2012).  Starkly photographed with black backgrounds, the color prints of small tchotchkes that he found discarded on streets he made bereft of sentimentality with painted on dark pigments.  The giraffe, the angels, the little boy and other items that in homes our often imbued with sentimental value are stripped of expression. Photographed from the back the viewer is forced to question their relationship to it. Each photographed side by then reflecting that question of it own connection to memory and in turn to our own connection to objects.  Prefacing the value we put on the connection assigned to objects such as these, he causes us to wonder if we really know what is in front of us: the shape of the tchotchke, its weight, or it size.  The exquisite photographs in this context becomes anchors to the here and now.\r\n\r\nAlvarez is also an installation and video artist.  In his work he has paid homage to science fiction, space, and abstraction of the environment.\r\n\r\nThe arstist/dj/cultural event producer <a title=\"Juan Bustamente\'s website\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/juanderful.juan?fref=browse_search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Juan Bustamante</strong></a> rounds out the exhibition with his installation <em>Escucha la Ciudad </em>(2015), Hearing the City, and the <a title=\"Carnaval en Philly A Closing Party for “Filadelfia: New Perspectives”\" href=\"http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/18/carnaval-en-philly-a-closing-party-for-filadelfia-new-perspectives/\"><em>Tropacalismo</em></a> event he is producing with his partner Greg Scruggs for Taller on March 27.  With roots from Colombia and his interest in urban music from South America to the Caribbean and beyond and his interest in street art, he creates exuberant events that not only  promote urban Latino culture but places it in Philadelphia back yard.  Partnering with Scruggs, he brings us his Tropicalismo event that they have done for the last five-year, a scholarly celebration of the various incarnation of Carnaval in South America and the world.  This will be the closing event for the <em>Filadelfia</em> exhibition. And with it, and with his installation signifies the increasing influence and intermingling of a vibrant urban Latino and Caribbean culture in America.',3318,'http://tallerpr.org/2015/03/29/3318-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
