Exhibitions
THE REALITIES WE DREAM
Group Exhibition – Summer Edition
Opening Reception Saturday,
AUGUST 2 - 6-9 PM
Portuguese painter Pedro Zhang uses the medium of painting as a means of grappling with nature, time, and space. In his muted, subtle, and emotionally-driven paintings, Zhang turns to every-day objects found in homes or nature in order to displace them from a certain time or place such that their uniqueness and memory surpass a mere moment and a given reality.
Jodi Minnis explores how spaces and objects—particularly those shaped by Caribbean identity and memory—become vessels of absence. In new work exhibited in the show, Minnis turns to the surreal realm of her grandmother’s garden, a space overrun with the mysticism of the Caribbean’s natural environment and infused with sensations of femininity and motherhood.
Pedro Troncoso examines diasporic narratives, often considering domestic or discarded items, as he searches for connection, echoing the fragmented nature of inherited memory and cultural lineage. Furthermore, Troncoso’s work channels fantasies and
imaginations that stem from his own life experiences or culturally-inherited memories, each of which become a part of the fabric of his own life today.
Pedro Delgado turns to the fluid nature of his home region in Northeastern Brazil, known for its unique topography, ecosystem, and culture. Delgado creates a wistful and dreamlike profile of his home in his signature impressionistic style. His depiction of the beaches and gardens mixed with idealized notions of Brazilian masculinity exist in an in-between space where the world around him meets the world he aspires to create.
Finally, Manuela Viera-Gallo’s sculptural contributions to the exhibition are surrealist interpretations of birds imbued with both political and social interpretations. Viera-Gallo’s work hovers the line between the real and imagined identities of the birds she sculpts that in her own words “departs from absurdity to manipulate and distort known symbols and imagery into an allegorical, fantastical and darkly comical framework.”