Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Betsabee Romero's A vuelta de rueda (driving slowly) in Mexico City
Ponchada por el paisaje / Puncture by The Landscape photo by Photo Carraol
Mexico artist Betsabee Romero takes the romance of cars very personally. In her new installation in Atrio de San Francisco, an open-air plaza in the heart of downtown Mexico City, old Volkswagon Beetles are attached to each other in a daisy chain that arcs over the plaza. Another sedan is covered in the colorful handmade tiles of a traditional Mexican kitchen, transforming the cold metal into a warm symbol of family. Romero is interested in the part cars play in human life - getting us from place to place is the least of it. She recognizes that cars are often the site of sexual initiation, sometimes they are our only shelter from the elements when houses fail, but also can be places where life can come to an abrupt end. They are often dangerous targets for kidnappers and for thieves. In a city where traffic routinely turns the air and residents' lungs grey with exhaust fumes, Romero fills an old VW bus with planet healing green plants. Romero uses homely materials to transform vehicles; her art may suggest many things, but remains an exciting and comfortable experience.
Watch Betsabee Romero describe her work in a video by Deborah Bonello, a multi-media journalist based Mexico City.
http://www.mexicoreporter.com/?p=1663
Monday, April 20, 2009
Robert Buelteman Signs of Life
Congratulations to Robert Buelteman whose new book, Signs of Life, is available today. It can be previewed at: http://issuu.com/buelteman/docs/signs_of_life_issuu
The book catalogues a body of work made from 1999 to 2003; in 1999 Buelteman moved from the black and white landscape studies he had been doing to the electrifying cameraless images of plant life included in this volume. And next week, April 2009, Color magazine will feature 8 pages of his work, just in time for Spring!
Friday, April 17, 2009
April Gornik At the Heckscher Museum
April Gornik has a lovely exhibition of 12 large-scale paintings presented in the beaux-arts style at the Heckscher in Huntington, NY. The museum has recently been renovated and a visit is a very nice day-trip from the City. The museum is located in Heckscher Park, at Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue in Huntington Village, NY, on Long Island's North Shore. www.heckscher.org
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