Pan American Art Projects is proud to present León Ferrari: 50 Years of Visual Resistance – Overdue Renaissance, a retrospective exhibition celebrating the extraordinary legacy of one of Latin America’s most dissident and influential artists. This landmark show will feature a curated selection of works exclusively from the private collection of gallery founder Robert Borlenghi, offering a rare and intimate view into Ferrari’s enduring visual and political impact.
Spanning five decades of artistic production, the exhibition focuses on Ferrari’s use of abstract calligraphy and visual language as subversive tools—forms that challenge power, provoke thought, and resist oppression. From his early experiments with asemic writing to his dense, chaotic compositions that blur the boundaries between drawing and protest, Ferrari’s work remains an urgent voice in the global conversation on human rights, authoritarianism, and the responsibilities of art.
This retrospective situates Ferrari’s practice not only within the historical context of Latin American resistance movements but also as part of a broader, overdue renaissance of interest in politically engaged art. In a world still marred by censorship, war, and opression, his visual strategies resonate as fiercely today as they did when first conceived.
Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce The New Gold Rush, an immersive group exhibition exploring the aesthetic, political, and economic implications of gold as both material and metaphor. On view from June 21 to August 2, 2025, the exhibition transforms the gallery space into a dark, enveloping environment where golden artworks emerge as luminous, provocative statements on power, wealth, and illusion.
The New Gold Rush invites audiences to reflect on cycles of extraction, accumulation, and delusion—reminding us that every rush carries its shadows. With gallery walls painted black, each golden work asserts itself in striking contrast, inviting viewers to contemplate what glitters, what is gained, and what is lost in each pursuit of worth.
Referencing the historical California Gold Rush of the 19th century, the exhibition draws clear parallels to today’s new political and economic climate. Then, as now, speculative ventures promised fortune while deepening inequality and
environmental destruction. In this context, gold becomes a symbol of desire and excess—a mirror reflecting contemporary “rushes” toward profit, digital currencies, luxury commodities, and land acquisition amid social precarity.
The New Gold Rush brings together artists whose works engage materiality, systems of power, and the cultural weight of gold through painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. The blackened space—rich in visual and symbolic absence—echoes the voids left behind by extractive ambition, while the golden works offer paths of critique, complicity, and perhaps even hope.
Pan American Art Projects was established in 2001 with the mission to exhibit and promote established and emerging artists from North, Central and South America, providing a context for dialogue between the various regions. We represent a strong roster of contemporary artists of the Americas and hold a collection of important works from Cuba, Argentina, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Our programming reflects these complementary arenas providing a comprehensive historical context for contemporary tendencies in the visual arts from these regions.
The gallery was born from the personal collection of our owner, Robert Borlenghi, who as a founding member of MOCA Los Angeles made his first trip to Haiti in 1990 and found many great artists that were relatively unknown to collectors in the U.S. He made it his mission to collect and exhibit underrepresented artists from Haiti, Jamaica and later Cuba. This mission then transferred to our gallery when we opened in Dallas in 2001, when we began adding actively represented artists from North and South America.
Open to all visitors from 11—4 pm. Progressive Art Brunch brings together participating galleries several Sundays throughout the year. The event highlights the current programming at each venue and enables visitors a more intimate look at the exhibitions on view.
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