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Email PageDavid Cabrera 2006
January 5, 2006- February 4, 2006
David Cabrera
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
526 W 26th StGray Kapernekas Gallery is pleased to present new works on paper and photography by David Cabrera. Taking visual cues from Modernism’s legacies of abstraction and documentary-style photography, Cabrera transforms personal history with theories of identity politics. Cabrera’s work poetically questions how families and social fabrics are constructed and regenerated in culture-at-large, through serialized form, hand-crafted process, and color.
On exhibit are Untitled (Henry, Joseph, Kristi, Richard, Denise, David) (2005), a suite of six large-scale collages are made from Color-aid paper, a material used by graphic designers prior to the mainstreaming of desktop publishing, and perhaps best-known as the tool used by Joseph Albers in his teachings of color theory. The papers’ dense, highly saturated and pigmented colors are combined in geometric compositions, building on specific memories of clothing worn by Cabrera’s siblings in the 1960s and 1970s. These abstracted works, alluding to everyday costuming, veiling and masking of identity, extend Cabrera’s interest in class and cultural assimilation. Cabrera’s suite of photographs, Untitled (Spruce Street) (2005), consists of six banal images of urban landscapes: dogs behind a fence, stacks of industrial materials, railroad tracks. These documentary-style photographs were taken in San Bernardino, California, in an intuitive search for the artist’s father’s childhood home, located in a predominantly Mexican-American, working-class neighborhood. The images are connected visually and conceptually by the presence of a barrier and passageways, opening up metaphors for migration and transition. Also on view is Untitled (Birds, Berries, Glass) (2005) a suite of cut-paper collages, containing abstracted images of birds flying into glass. This dark sequence provides a nature/culture framework for considering liberation politics.
David Cabrera’s work is currently featured in El Museo del Barrio’s Biennial exhibition, curated by Miki Garcia, Deborah Cullen, and Marisol Nieves. His work was featured in the 2005 Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has exhibited his work internationally since the mid-1980s, at art centers including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Bronx Museum, New York; Trans>area, New York; Artists Space, New York; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Austin Museum of Art, Texas; Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio. Cabrera lives and works in New York, and is a graduate faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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