Articles of ‘Panamerican Art Projects’

Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative

Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative

Many contemporary artists, especially those who work with videos, rely on storytelling and the narrative that flows from it. Tracey Snelling is one of these artists whose work is structured based on a story. Her unique scale models are made from imaginary buildings, sometimes creating small towns. These buildings show fragments of movies [...]



Magnus Sigurdarson & Paul Stoppi - Operation Beefeater

Pan American Art Projects - Miami

La possibilité de vivre commence dans le regard de l’autre.
Houellebecq

By Janet Batet
We should start off by admitting that the old identity-alterity controversy is merely an eccentric illusion opportunely adopted in the past by post-colonial nationalistic politics, in which the individual was labeled as an integral part of a geographically localizable group, [...]



Revisiting the past - The paintings of Gustavo Acosta

By Irina Leyva-Pérez
If we look back at Gustavo’s oeuvre over a span of twenty years, we can easily recognize that he has been interested in social expressions of power. In the 1980s, when his work started receiving attention, he was using metaphors of Roman architecture as a reference to the Cuban social system. The dark, [...]



Tracey Snelling

PanAmerican Art Projects - Wynwood Art District, Miami
November 29, 2008 - January 31, 2009
By Arelys Hernández
Since Pop Art arose to occupy a fundamental place in the history of American art, many subsequent offerings have carried its imprint, or at least, some of its processes and symbols from advertising iconography, industrial merchandise; a landscape marked by urban [...]



…CLICK, A TRIGGER HAPPY PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

Project Room: Tribute to Carlos Gallardo (1944-2008)
At Pan American Art Projects
January 31 - February 28, 2009
In this exhibition we are exploring photography as a medium and as a means of expression. Through this selection of photographs, we can see how each artist approaches the medium from a different point of view and how each of [...]



Carlos’ Treatises

Carlos' Treatises

By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Carlos Estévez is a Cuban-born, Miami-based artist who has been active since the beginning of the nineties. Since his solo exhibition “A través del Universo” (Through the Universe) in 1992 at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, in Havana, he has become part of a group of the more promising artists [...]



The self and the other, at PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami

October 25th - November 22nd, 2008
In this exhibition PanAmerican Art Projects presents two contemporary Cuban painters, Pedro Pablo Oliva and Rene Francisco, whose work is a direct result of their environment. These two artists are from two different generations, which undoubtedly influences their perception. Their views about social circumstances differ, taking as reference and source [...]



PINTA returns to New York. November 13 – 16, at the Metropolitan Pavilion and Altman Building

By Raisa Clavijo
PINTA, the Latin American Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art will take place for the second consecutive year in New York City, presenting carefully-selected, notable galleries from the United States, Latin America and Europe. The fair will display a wide panorama of the evolution of the region’s modern and contemporary art. Of note [...]