"Venezuela Art Fair" at One Art Space Gallery, NYC

From Venezuela to New York, a lot of talent and entrepreneurship at the One Art Space Gallery, during the Venezuela Art Fair event held from December 16 to 20, featuring art, sculpture, and photography with Venezuelan style.

This was the second of many more editions we hope to see from this organization. Produced by Guaicora Studios, the event hosted a selected group of Venezuelan artists, given the opportunity to share our skills and inspiration. Venezuelan culture and lifestyle are represented by more than 30 artists on-site and more than 30 available online.

The last time I was in a room with so many Venezuelans was more than five years ago before moving to NYC, so I am sure that this experience inspired and gave warmth of home to most of us. Find below the catalog line-up:

@d.dittmar
@artefania.creations
@eve_morart
@keudisanchz
@Mandy.porras
@jhoselynart
@ramirons1
@Sthefmillanart
@terrart
@visopardo
@diegodelarosart
@Aduahc
@alberto_barreto
@alevalbuena_7
@alexrafa_lopez, @cavallarohector, @37milimetros, @claudia_leal_photo, @rodreman, @rominahendlin
@av_artist
@Belart1486
@Cheskacsk
@crisenri
@dagobertobecerrit_artista
@dilianny_espinoza
@paintingsbychesco
@laz__arte
@honystorres @artepedroblas
@rodriguezjoseluis23
@mafealizo
@Elartequemotiva
@saulgalavis
@yomicoart
@soyanalimon
@abruni.art
@arteplaza
@abautmi
@u.oliverobrayan
@Camilarestrepoo
@carloscolmenarezelmaestro
@elmostachino
@jocedu
@skartista
@flaviapalago
@Giselle_theartist
@chuchovd_ofc
@josecuevasaranda2
@juanlara.art
@serra_art_juan
@zamuramaria
@dupuy_art
@artearisbra
@koidiazart
@die_kunstverbindung
@rosacanelon__art
@sandraear_ph
@Verofinol_art
@aruna.ekohabitat
@abstract_dementia
@noxfera_art
@zanzun_art

STAFF
Reinaldo Castro @reycastht
Daniel Galue @daugustus
Zulimar Mendoza @zulimiau
Yuri Uzcategui @yuriyurtrika
Miler Angulo Hernandez @milerahphoto
Alex Siniscalchi @ccstencil
Alexandra Alvarez @alexillustra
Karina Freites @rubbycobain
Francieli y Luis @entre2creativos

“The Venezuela Art Fair is an initiative created by Venezuelans for the world, that will honor talent and creativity. This will be the perfect excuse to celebrate the emerging and contemporary art of Venezuela. The Venezuela Art Fair is an expanding Project that will encompass online and offline spaces, growing with the help of developing technologies, in order to represent art anywhere in the world.”

— Venezuela Art Fair

For more information about the artists or how to acquire some of their artworks, you can check the official site of the Venezuela Art Fair.

"LOOKAWAY" International Group Exhibition, UK

Centrespace is a place that offers studios, workshops, events and gallery for the community of artists, curators and artisans of the city of Bristol.

On this occasion, thanks to curator Nick Sutton, who gave rise to an exhibition called 'LOOKAWAY' from November 22 to 29, 2018, I had the opportunity to be part of an excellent international group of artists to show a total of forty artworks from various media such as Photography, Sculpture, Video Art and Collage.

Side by side, artists from different parts of the world:

Fucci (Canada) @fucci
Ina Jang (USA) @inajang
Rosi Feist (Germany) @rosifeist
J.G Ballard (UK)
Mr Gabriel Marques (Brazil) @mr_gabrielmarques
Julie Cockburn (UK) @juliecockburnartist
John Waters (USA)
Anna Lees (UK) @anna_lees_collage
Efrem Zelony-Mindell (USA) @efrem_zelony_mindell
Megan Broadmeadow (UK) @meganbroadmeadow
Dilianny Espinoza (Venezuela) @dilianny_espinoza
Peter Watkins (USA)
Mal Clare (UK)
Beth Holladay (USA) @beth_holladay_art
Dale Mail (UK) @the.dale.mail
Connor Busby (USA) @c0nn0r_busby
Alex J Wood (UK) @al3xjw
Francois Legroux (France) @fravcoisfravcois
Scott Darby (UK) @_scottdarby

Centrespace Gallery. Bristol, United Kingdom. © 2019 Google

“Using a mixture of nature, pop culture and surrealism Dilianny creates beautiful medium format prints. These two pieces capture female figures dreaming, looking away, lost on lily pads...”

— Nick Sutton, Curator

Independent

-The road has been difficult, but look how far you have come, determined woman. Keep it up, she told herself.

Prejudices

-Enough! It's a long list of prejudices for our short existence. People heard her exclaim.

The two pieces selected to represent me in the exhibition are part of my series of collages. Using digital media, I seek to find harmony in the mix of different photographs until they merge and create a new one. In both cases, the concept aimed the independence that the woman of today has achieved, in how we have changed our way of thinking about how it was decades ago.

I made "Independent" to commemorate the international women's day. Its main element is the woman, composed of a stone statue to represent how strong we have become, and the lower part because it has not been necessary to set behind our femininity. At the same time, in the background, you can see a fairly rough path, as has been the history of the struggle for gender equality. The glass sky is the representation of hope at the beginning of the fight, women looked for the minimum entrance, and since so many doors were closed, we took advantage of even a small window. The mixture of cool colors in top and earth colors in the bottom gives the final balance to the piece.

With respect to the piece "Prejudices", the idea arose that the woman sitting on the leaves of water lilies floating in the universe represents how small we are in the universe, the shortness of our permanence in it, and there is no time for unnecessary prejudices of society. In this case, the Playboy in his hands, I refer to a specific one: sex is something taboo for the woman of the past, but the woman of the present is free to put aside prejudices.