Name: SPOTLIGHT | rafa esparza
Start: 2021-06-12T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-06-12T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Fire Island Pines

SPOTLIGHT | rafa esparza

BOFFO IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PRESENTS INNOVATIVE & EXPERIMENTAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. Our initiatives include artist residencies, digital commissions, and the creation of spaces, experiences and exhibitions. Since 2009 we’ve served the artistic community by supportiing new work and stimulating interdisciplinary dialogues. We serve local communities by offering access to the greatest voices of all media, generations, and practices in unexpected and unconvential ways.BOFFO believes in art and design as a vehicle of change - a way to improve and enhance the quality of life of our communities and of individuals. BOFFO believes in enabling the greatest creative talent of our time to become powerful forces in shaping social, industry, and community landscapes.BOFFO is a New York State 501(c)(3) nonprofit exempt from federal income tax.

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rafa esparza's residency with BOFFO culminates with SPOTLIGHT, and exhibition on view on the east side of Fire Island Blvd.

Fire Island Pines

<p>On Saturday June 12, as the conclusion to his time at BOFFO Residency Fire Island, rafa esparza will exhibit SPOTLIGHT,  a series of protest drawings along Fire Island Boulevard from 6 - 10PM, along with a reception from 6-8PM. The drawings offer up a symbolic gesture against state sanctioned killing at the hands of armed police officers, in the aftermath of a year of reckoning with insurmountable violence against black and brown people throughout the country. They are a reminder of the radical roots of pride grounded in queer and trans histories like those of Stonewall Riots and Cooper Do-Nuts Riots; how these acts of rebellion are deeply imbedded in our struggle as queer people. rafa emphasizes the importance of these drawings being presented against the backdrop of Fire Island, where they are by day illuminated by the sunlight and by night backlit by handmade lightboxes. Come by Fire Island Blvd at Teal Walk for the reception from 6 - 8PM, and don’t miss the drawings which will be up until 10PM on Saturday June 12.</p>

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