Art History: BVA 312 - 26/08/2019 (Contemporary Art: North America)

Contemporary Art: North American - Canada, USA, Mexico, Central america and Caribbean Region.

Regional background :

■Nick Sikkuark (Inuit, born in 1943, Garry Lake, NU, Canada; died in 2013 in Kugaaruk, NU, Canada)

■Lisa Steele (born in Kansas City, MO, USA; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) and Kim Tomczak (born in Victoria, BC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)

■Curtis Talwst Santiago (born in Edmonton, AB, Canada; lives in Lisbon, Portugal)

Dukeredbird

Artist: Curtis Talwst Santiag
https://torontolife.com/culture/art/curtis-talwst-santiago-dioramas/

The Edmonton-born artist started his career in Toronto, creating intricate scenes in antique ring boxes. Since advising the AGO on its 2015 Jean-Michel Basquiat show, he’s taken his studio on the road to New York City, Johannesburg, Oakland and Geneva (and, right now, back to Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery). “I’ve just been riding this wave since the Basquiat exhibition,” he says.

Through it all, his method has stayed the same. “I use a lot of model-making materials—like straight-up hobby-shop, train-set-building materials,” he said. “I also use found objects from my travels—I collect sand, rocks, plants, pebbles, maybe hair from someone. They’re these little voodoo charms full of so many things.” Here, he explains the story behind five of his newest jewellery box sculptures, largely inspired by art history and his time in South Africa.

Bienal de arte Paiz

Arevalo and



Magdalena
https://21bienal.fundacionpaiz.org.gt/magdalena-atria-lemaitre/




Some constants in my work are the tension between the rational and the emotional, the collective and the personal, the real and the ideal, the formal and the symbolic. I explore these notions through different mediums—painting, drawing, sculpture and photography—always with a particular emphasis on the materials and processes I utilize. These materials belong to specific uses and traditions and carry with them meanings and associations related to these origins.

Mountain: Northern Territories and Alberta (Canada), Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico (USA)

Alberta:

 https://canadianart.ca/reviews/art-gallery-of-alberta/

https://www.youraga.ca/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions

 

Phoenix Arizona: http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/current

**Anchorage Musuem 

utah: https://www.utahmoca.org/portfolio/lenka-konopasek-mimicry-instance-failure/

■Cuba: Havana, Jamaica: Kingston, Haiti: Port-au-Prince, Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo

https://havanatimes.org/features/whats-happening-to-cubas-controversial-law-to-control-independent-art/

Similarly, the vice-minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas, claimed in a TV interview that “artistic creation and freedom are consecrated in the Republic’s Constitution” and the new constitutional project that will be put to a popular referendum vote on February 24th.

Museu Nacional de Belas Artes de Cuba (without translation)
- Seems like the art happening in Cuba (Mexico) is not as popular as it is in America. 
- There are no translation, only written in Mexican language. 
- This museum features traditional art. Not contemporary. 

■Puerto Rico: San Juan