Previous Shows

Now in our new gallery here is the list of shows from 2022 and back.

• Rialenga
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  March 2023 / Jun 2023

  Carla Javier-Brea (Berkeley, CA, 1989) is a Dominican-American illustrator, printmaker, ceramist, skateboarder, and tattoo artist based in Portland, Oregon. Graduate of Advertising Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE, and MFA in Print Media at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon.

  The artist first solo exhibition presents a selection of new works in engraving techniques, watercolor, ink drawings on paper, and ceramic sculptures.The artist first solo exhibition presents a selection of new works in engraving techniques, watercolor, ink drawings on paper, and ceramic sculptures.

  Carla uses linoleum engraving to reproduce her art mixing it with illustration and tattooing. Her imaginative scenes blur the line between species and the inner and outer world. She works fluidly across mediums such as linocut, sculpture, watercolor, Chinese ink, and graphite – closely linked to the land and manual crafts, emphasizing the aspect of the human being as part of nature, and infusing her pieces with raw energy and emotion. Carla encourages viewers to find personal parallels or keep them within reality.

• Nota Personal / Note To Self
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  June 2023 / July 2023
  Dani Urdaneta y Lizander Jiménez

  The exhibition originates from conversations among the artists about human connections, vulnerability, and different dynamics of relating to one’s environment. Together they explore these connections and the need for mental health in today’s world. Each artist has developed self-protective mechanisms, processes of introspection, and self-care.

  The works presented captured the artists’ shared fascination with the human impulse for closeness. Human connections in the form of intimacy can mean something different to everyone, which is shown in their unique take on the subject.

  There is such a beautiful and deep feeling of intimacy with nature, with partners, with children, and with our daily work. Both artists capture intimate moments of inspiration and provocation, through these works on paper, using oil, ink, and thread. Lizander addresses points of connections based on place, belonging, and cultural identity, contrasting the rural and the urban, while Daniela, with her series ‘Empierne’ questions the emotional fabrics from sexuality, while with ‘Abrazo para Contenerme’ she explores intimacy with oneself that involves awareness, acceptance, appreciation, and compassion. Each work is a kind of necessary reminder to heal ourselves through affection.

• Faces of Skate
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  February 2023 /April 2023

  “Skateboarding has taken me to many places and people with whom I share this sporting passion. The local skateboarding scene is very particular. I have met many people and lived many stories. Over the years, a solid and diverse community has evolved, to which I feel proud to belong and to have seen part of the story told before my eyes” – says Christopher Ricardo Blandino.

  Blandino has captured the most prominent skateboarders in the country from the 1970s to the 2000s, who have become legends and continue to inspire current and future generations.

  “The Faces of Skate” is a photographic collection that documents the last two decades of the local skateboarding scene. The editor and photographer better known as Blandino, collaborated with Maary Cordero which art directed and was also in charge of museography for the project.

• Colectivo Matahambre
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  June 2023 / December 2023

  Created, curated, and managed by the Modafoca Team designates virtuality as a play area, using the meta factor to create new spaces for dialogue based on an imaginary collective that is inspired by our neighboring community of Mata Hambre, making this an interactive communication space between the inhabitant and their city, considering the significant aspects of society such as identity, culture, and ways of life.

• I Contain Multitudes / José Morban
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  November 2023 / January 2024

  “I am immense, I contain multitudes,” writes Walt Whitman in A Song of Myself, referring simultaneously to being and the universal. This verse, which periodically resurfaces in music, film, and literature since its publication in 1855, now serves as a starting point for giving meaning to this series of paintings. These images arise from my interest in historical and contemporary moments, using various sources such as books, films, political opinion magazines, and journalistic photos.

  Unlike my previous series, I did not linger on each narrative for long, but rather I conceived of these paintings as aphorisms, self-contained ideas about the multiplicity of selves that inhabit the Caribbean. Vignettes where are thrown without a delimited path because that is how they appeared, and that can be read individually or as a crowd.  — Jose Morbán