Please join us for the opening of Future Past Perfect featuring the first solo museum exhibitions by LULU SANCHEZ, Nathalie Alfonso, Susan Kim Alvarez, Joel Gaitan, Kandy G Lopez, Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, and Zoe Schweiger.
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Lulu Sanchez
ADOLFOLAND
This exhibition sees artist Lulu Sanchez (b.1992, Miami, FL; lives and works in Miami, FL) respond to the work of her late uncle, artist Adolfo Rene Sanchez (b.1957, Camagüey, Cuba; d.1990, Miami, FL), a fixture within the eighties East Village art scene, the epicenter of what came to be known as the New Wave art movement. Mining the family's archive, Sanchez located Adolfo’s source material, and artworks left unfinished as he succumbed to a premature death from AIDS-related complications.
Appropriating these found images, Lulu Sanchez inserts her own narrative, resulting in the formation of an iconographic palimpsest. In this, Sanchez is not only exploring the makings of her own selfhood, but the innumerable approaches to mimetic representation offered through painting.
The works within this exhibition present a spiritual exchange between two family members, who though they never met, are brought together by their creative force, offering a new legacy to the New Wave.
