Descripción de la Exposición
Miami-based, Venezuelan artist Juan Henríquez, comes back to the Miami art scene with a stronger than ever proposition titled Mapa Histérico. This new solo exhibition, curated by Felix Suazo, will encompass a selection of works made on fabric, paper, and wood between 2018 and 2021. The staging of the works is complemented by an on-site intervention and the projection of a video made in collaboration with Carlos Pedreañez.
The title Mapa Histérico, suggests a mapping of the painting process, as a speculative vehicle and psychic introspection device. Curator Felix Suazo says about this work: “Juan Henríquez's pictorial work originates from that psycho-sensitive duplicity that allows us to look without rules and perceive carefully at the same time. It is all a matter of accepting the undertaking of seeing in its double condition of being a playful event but also a cognitive vehicle.”
In these works, the artist shares his visual explorations, which are also testimonial tours in which shapes and ideas are linked in a continuous flow. The gestural impulse prevails with the overlapping of layers and the superposition of pigments and strokes. However, in each case the author gives equal attention to the totality and details, concatenating large areas of color and calligraphic interventions of accurate making.
This exhibition is being produced and coordinated by Lisu Vega, with the support of Galería D'Museo in Caracas, BAG Online Art Gallery in Houston, and ArtSeen365 in Miami.
About the Artist
Venezuelan-American visual artist. He began his art studies in 1995 at the Julio Árraga Art School and later at the Neptalí Rincón Superior Art Academy, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. His work has been presented in national and international exhibitions in Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the Dutch Caribbean, and the United States. He lives and works in Miami, Florida since 2006.
About Laundromat Art Space
An artist-run studio and exhibition space which focuses on the development of local artists and provides innovative curatorial opportunities and artistic programming for the community. Founded in 2015 by alumni from the ArtCenter/South Florida (now Oolite Arts), Bakehouse Art Complex and Wynwood Arts District. LAS makes its home in a reclaimed laundromat located in the neighborhood of Little Haiti in Miami, FL. The space is 100% artist-run and independent under the direction of Ronald Sánchez.
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