Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce Rusty Scruby: Between Two Worlds, a solo show of assemblages by Rusty Scruby. It will be on view from April 21st to June 9th, 2024, with an opening reception on Sunday, April 21, from 11 to 4 p.m.
Rusty Scruby: Between Two Worlds will present the artist’s photographic reconstructions between 2006 and 2012.
Blurring the lines between photography and sculpture, Scruby’s innovative pieces challenge traditional notions of perception and representation. Scruby transforms ordinary photographs into mesmerizing compositions with hints of abstraction through meticulous layering and manipulation of images. Each artwork in the exhibition is a testament to Scruby’s unique artistic vision, inviting viewers to explore the crossroads of form, texture, and color. His images are recreated from snapshots that he prints in multiple sections and then weaves together, like a puzzle that only he knows how to solve, with a fastening method of his creation. Some pieces can appear almost like abstractions until we realize Scruby has deconstructed the image to a point that it virtually looks like pixels instead of paper fragments. By dissecting the images, he can reproduce them in a new dimension and shape, often adding volumetric elements and achieving remarkable visual and tactile effects.
Wonderland is an exploration that embarks on a journey through ethereal landscapes, intricate mindscapes, and retrospective “lifescapes”. It is a captivating exhibition that delves into nostalgia, imagination, and the ideal place. Curated to evoke a sense of wonder and introspection, this exhibition features artworks that traverse the boundaries between reality and fantasy, inviting viewers to explore the intricacies of mental paradises.
Through diverse mediums, including painting and charcoal, the exhibiting artists offer their unique interpretations of nostalgia, crafting scenes that evoke memories of distant places and moments frozen in time. Imagination takes center stage as viewers are transported to fantastical worlds where the laws of physics and logic bend to the whims of the artists’ imagination. Wonderland is more than just a collection of landscapes; it’s a journey into the human psyche, where the viewers can experience a sanctuary of the mind, a refuge from the chaos of the world. With each artwork serving as a portal to these inner sanctuaries, viewers are invited to contemplate the nature of their own mental landscapes and the histories of their lives.
Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce What Does All the Blue in the Sea Have that the Sky Doesn’t?, a solo exhibition by Mabel Poblet, a Cuban artist who lives and works between Havana, Miami, and Madrid. The exhibition includes a large volume of works previously exhibited in the show Where the Oceans Meet, held by the artist at Chanel Nexus Hall, an art center in Tokyo, Japan, focused on showcasing contemporary photography.
What does all the blue in the sea have that the sky doesn’t? curated by Claudia Taboada, becomes a “mirror-exhibition” in which the images of all emigrants are reflected. It contemplates the parallels between their physical and mental journey. In the middle of the ocean, everything becomes confusing, immeasurable, and incomprehensible. Deliriums overshadow reason, and misfortune becomes a beautiful and yearned path.
Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce Unpainting, a solo presentation by Roger Toledo, a Cuban artist based in Mexico. We will present his exhibit in collaboration with the New York gallery Thomas Nickles Project, on view from March 29th to May 18th, 2024. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, March 29th from 6 to 9 pm, at the Miami Design District location (21 NE 39th Street, Miami, FL 33137).
With this presentation, Roger Toledo conceptually approaches painting in an attempt to deconstruct the nature of the paintings he examines, all validated by their presence in museums; attempting to extract and separate the pigments from the forms that contain them. The pieces of the contemporary artist (R. Toledo) reflect and conceptually approach formalist criticism and the valorization of painting as an art object.
Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce ¿Y esa luz? Es tu sombra – A Symphony of Lights and Shadows, a collective exhibition from R. Borlenghi’s Collection. The exhibition brings together works in black and white – mostly of a pictorial nature – in large format: we will be presenting works by artists such as José Bedia, Ricardo Brey, J. Roberto Diago, Edouard Duval Carrié, León Ferrari, José M. Fors, Joe Goode, Kcho, Paul Manes, Frank Mujica, and Jorge Ríos. The idea of the exhibition is inspired by a poem titled “Y esa luz? Es tu sombra” (And that light? It is your shadow), by the Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz, who evokes that light and shadow are inseparable, coexisting in a kind of perpetual dance. This exhibition becomes an exploratory visual poem on the duality of light and shadow, as a metaphor for life itself, where positive and negative aspects come together as an inseparable binomial or hybrid body. The works explore thematic areas related to anthropology, memory and the existentialism of being.
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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