Rutas De Nuestros Caminos (Routes of Our Paths)

Rutas De Nuestros Caminos (Routes of Our Paths)

The exhibit runs from Wednesday-Sunday April 10-May 5 2024 at 12-6 PM.

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Location: Ki Smith Gallery

Come join us for a time of exploration and discovery at Rutas De Nuestros Caminos! This event will take you on a journey of emotions while viewing the artwork of 4 amazing Puerto Rican artists. Don't miss out on this unique experience!

Elsie Deliz is a Puerto Rican born mixed media artist and Jewelry designer inspired by nature and the social environment. Her use of mixed media techniques allows her to experiment and create a variety of free form art pieces. Venues that has exhibited her artwork are Taller Boricua, El Barrio Artspace PS 109, Art Lives Here BrownStone Gallery, The Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, Taller Boricua Printmaking Workshop in collaboration with Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico and El Museo de La Historia de Ponce.

Marcos Dimas was born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Marcos has been a pioneer and innovator in the New York City alternative arts movement. His work combines Pre-Columbian Taino symbols and images with contemporary modes of abstraction and figuration to create a fusion between past and present ways of seeing. His work falls into the Caribbean tradition of surrealist abstraction. Dimas has exhibited his work in Germany, Cuba, USA, in various collections that include Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Snite Museum in South Bend, Indiana, and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Marcos was honored by receiving an invite to lecture in Seoul, South Korea regarding the fascinating alternative movement happening in NYC.

James Reyes is a Puerto Rican American rising star artist who lives and works in the Bronx, New York. Reyes artwork is directly inspired by his cultural and social environment as well as the dream world. Using intensely gestural and occasionally chaotic brushstrokes, splashes, drips, sprays and scrapes, Reyes conjures figures both fully rendered and surreal, creating portals into his subconscious and to the dream world. He has received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has solo exhibited his artwork twice at Ki Gallery, NYC and at the SCOPE Art Show 2023 in Miami, Florida.

Originally from Puerto Rico, Jorge Luis Rodriguez arrived in New York City in 1963 at the intersection of the Minimist and Optical Art movements, incorporating these elements into his works. He began his career as a two-dimensional artist, but over the years began experimenting with sculpture. Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts , he met his mentors George Trakas, Brice Marden, and Louise Bourgeois. From there, Rodriguez began working in Harlem and SoHo where he created public installations. Rodriguez's work emphasizes issues related to the representation of Black and Latin American culture. Retired from his position as a college professor and still living in New York, he focuses on his work, ranging from large scale installations to wall hanging sculptures. He has currently exhibited his work at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and the MoMA.

Rutas De Nuestros Caminos was created by Ki Smith in collaboration with CAfED

https://www.kismithgallery.com/

https://cafedinc.org/ (Collective Artists for Ethnic Diversity)

Artwork curated by- Master Ki Smith & Grandma, Nelson Manuel Soto, Mia Lischin