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The Other Side

February 21, 2008- April 5, 2008

Reception: February 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Julie Saul Gallery

535 W 22nd St

We are pleased to announce our second exhibition of Cuban born artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Her ovure is a rich exploration into African diaspora and notions of loss, separation and dislocation associated with her Afro-Cuban identity. The Other Side follows her major mid-career survey organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The show continues to reflect her interest in memory and displacement with two new unique nine-panel Polaroid works and several large-scale works on paper. For Campos-Pons, the immediacy of the Polaroid process allows her to respond and perform within the studio.

In the work Blue Refuge, Campos-Pons incorporated painted constructions and sculpture into her performance. Fixed in the center panel a figure sits wrapped in an orange cloth. The expansive blue background references both winter landscape and sea, while a web of strings ground the figure in space. Aestically, the contrasting colors of orange and blue isolate the form, while also envolping it into the calming environment. The body is used to reference history, personal identity and is both literally and figuratively bound to the landscape. In contrast, Dreaming of an Island is a work on paper that references to the longing of another place.

Born in Matanzas in 1959, Campos-Pons was educated in Cuba at the National School of Art (1976-1979) and Instituto Superior de Arte (1980-1985) and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1988. She is one of the most significant artists to emerge from the post-Revolutionary era. She moved to North America in 1991 and now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband and son where they Co-founded GASP. The retrospective Everything is Separated by Water at the Insianapolis Museum of Art included forty works in many mediums borrowed from collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Canada and the Norton Museum in Miami. Copies of the monograph with scholarly essays by curator Lisa Freiman and Okwui Enwezor are available.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Julie Saul Gallery Address 535 W 22nd St, 6th Fl New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-627-2410 Fax 212-627-2411 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6 Nearby: All 10 galleries at 535 W 22nd St

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