Adler Guerrier. From Oct 10th through Nov 7th, 2009.
David Castillo Gallery is presenting Everyday Travails, Adler Guerrier’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and his first in Miami in over four years. The artist’s creative impulse is both intellectual and organic and is shown by his love of paper and its natural evolution into artwork and by his contemplative photography of the everyday. The current exhibition includes drawings, sculpture, photography, and video encapsulating the ideas of constant interest to the artist: place and the everyday.
The works reveal a structured imprint of the everyday, in the exploration of the relationship of media to the psycho-geographical, social, and political nature of place. Adler Guerrier sets drawing, collage, sculpture, photo, video, and installation in dialogue. His inspired cultural hybrid between color and plane are anchored by fearless, site-specific subversions of place and time in regards to conceptions of race, class, and culture. Often calling upon the districts of Miami and his own backyard, Guerrier examines the contemporary flaneur in an impending post-demographic age.
Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the New World School of the Arts in Miami and has exhibited widely including The Whitney Biennial 2008, the Wolfsonian Miami Beach, and Miami Art Museum. The artist has recently exhibited in VideoStudio at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Pivot Points 3 at Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and is in the permanent collection of both institutions. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool; commissioned works for Locust Projects Miami and a monograph to be published by Name Publications. Guerrier’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, and Art in America, among numerous other publications.
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David Castillo Gallery presents Gallery Projects, a group show of new work by gallery artists Adler Guerrier, Aramis Gutierrez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Javier Piñón, Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova, Frances Trombly, and Wendy Wischer. 
David Castillo Gallery presents new work by Jackie Gendel and Tom McGrath in the main space and the work of Shay Kun in the gallery annex space starting March 14th, 2009. 
Working with construction-ready materials, Scicluna implements an I-beam arrangement as a productive pause. The sprawling composition animates the exhibition space, dominating the floor as imminently as the financial real estate crisis in the US, and as carefully as the Bauhaus movement sought social redemption in the rigor of aestheticism. The complacency of Scicluna's exaggerated arrangement, seemingly grafted from the site itself, also bears traces of ironic Absurdism; the viewer's capacity to swallow art as architecture becomes both graceful in its democracy and frightening in its unquestioned breadth. 
Old / New is a solo exhibition by Glexis Novoa starting November 8th at David Castillo Gallery. Novoa renders cityscapes like peering into a curio cabinet and coming face-to-horizon with societal apocalypse in miniature. In Harold and the Purple Crayon, a children's book by Crockett Johnson, Harold draws his own picaresque narrative into being. With similar intuition, autonomy, and deceiving innocence, Novoa's sculptural approach to drawing conjures urban environs as products of and covert oppositions to totalitarianism. The exhibition includes work the artist has been developing over the past several years: his graphite on marble and graphite on dry wall drawings. The exhibition includes new bodies of work as well, such as an installation and color prints. 
David Castillo opens "Continuing Adventures of our Heroine", an all-women group exhibition featuring works by Susan Lee Chun, Francie Bishop Good, Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, Cindy Sherman, Jaimie Warren and Michelle Weinberg. 
David Castillo Gallery presents Tuttle, a group exhibition contextualizing work by Jenny Brillhart, Nicolas Lobo, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Tom Scicluna, Molly Springfield, and Frances Trombly within the legacy of Richard Tuttle. 
David Castillo Gallery is opening this month a solo exhibition by Quisqueya Henriquez titled A Heap of Paradise. The new works include collage, color prints, sculpture, video and installations. In one series of collage works, Henriquez takes images from Dominican and Miami newspapers of baseball players who gave standout performances the day before. She in turn reconstructs these images of the players to emphasize or overemphasize their prowess. By extension, this separation of identity from the physical body in the collage works comments on the stereotypes of Caribbean people as good at dance, sex, and sports. For some time the artist has been exploring limited or distorted perceptions of a culture and a people in her Burlas or Mockeries series.
David Castillo Gallery presents the exhibition Real Time with new work by each of the gallery's represented artists. The exhibition addresses issues of allotted time such as in art and the creation of it or in space and life in general. Art plots history because of the way it distills or filters everything we can experience in any way. Time whether real or simply understood to be real can be art itself, it functions as a creator because time is simultaneously a point of arrival and a point of departure. Time has been a topic of concern since the beginning of human existence from philosophers to saints to artists to writers to everyday people. We live by it even though we have very little understanding of it beyond basic physical principles, theories, and our own experience of it whether real or not. The flow of time marks us, gives us our identity, in much the same way it marks art and gives it many layers and new connotations and interpretations with the passage of time.
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