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Tectonic Shifts Make Way For Hope In Leslie Martinez’s Paintings

Leslie Martinez’s largest body of work to date is on view at MoMA PS1. Gathering recent paintings and three newly commissioned, large-scale works, The Fault of Formation proves critical and timely in its proposal, providing a space to feel the discomfort and hope that can arise when living socially and geographically outside the mainstream of American society and politics.

Intervenxions (The Latinx Project), 2024

Mi corazón latiente: Pepón Osorio at the New Museum

“Osorio’s larger-than-life assemblages turn up the volume of the vibrancy and familiarity that accumulated objects carry, emphasizing the value and intrinsic meanings that material culture holds at both a consumerist and spiritual level for those who have little else to hold onto. For Osorio, no object is without life.”

Intervenxions (The Latinx Project), 2023

An Ode to the World's Borough

The Queens Museum presents Aliza Nisenbaum’s first New York museum solo exhibition, Queens, Lindo y Querido, on view from April 23 through September 10, 2023. The artworks by the Mexican-American artist recount years spent engaging with the Museum and the diverse community of transit workers, intergenerational immigrant families, and members of grassroots organizations who call Queens home, celebrating its people in contextually rich settings and exuberant colors.

Intervenxions (The Latinx Project), 2023

In Puerto Rico, Artists and Art Spaces Are Coming Together to Rebuild Following a Series of Disasters

One could say that the rise of artist-run galleries in Puerto Rico directly coincided with the political and natural events that have shaped the country over the last seven years, as an organic response to these. This is why, when the going gets tough, the art community in PR shows up for each other.

ARTnews, 2023

The Complex Spiritualities of Syncretic Beliefs

While candles, images of saints, and other idols are common in households in Puerto Rico, the meanings owners ascribe to them can be unexpected.

Hyperallergic, 2023

The Tropical is Political

A group exhibition at the Americas Society investigates ideas of paradise, approaching the Caribbean region as a product of the visitor economy regime.

Hyperallergic, 2022

Sun-Kissed Memories of Ipanema Beach

The photographs convey the essence of these individuals in relation to the ocean — shadows of her past, unglued from the sand’s surface. She captures the sun as it bounces off the wet, restless shore.

Hyperallergic, 2022

Community By Design: On The Legacy of Casa Klumb in Puerto Rico

Considered a central figure within the island’s architectural history, Henry Klumb was a modernist designer from Germany who lived and worked the latter half of his life in PR. While he is primarily known for designing public university campuses and many of its buildings, Casa Klumb is the architect’s most personal work, serving as a blueprint and invitation to think of work as a collaborative, lifelong effort towards social progress.

Intervenxions (The Latinx Project), 2022

Reimagining the Community Archive: Lizania Cruz's Investigation of the
Dominican Racial Imaginary

Presented at CUE Art Foundation, “Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City,” displayed the current state of affairs of her project Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary, which explores how Black identity has been undermined and erased from the country’s collective consciousness.

Intervenxions (The Latinx Project), 2021

One Work: Carolina Caycedo’s “Serpent River Book”

With its seventy-two pages completely unfolded, Carolina Caycedo’s Serpent River Book (2017) twists and turns across its accompanying piece of the same year, Serpent Table, comprising five curved segments of connected wooden boards, corresponding to the book’s five chapters, and installed just a few inches above the ground.

Art in America, 2021