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April 27, 2019

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“Ripped From The Headlines” is curated by Elle Schorr, an artist, curator and organizer of Art Salons at the Armory Art Center, where she has brought leading artists from throughout South Florida to discuss their work at artist talks and discussions in West Palm Beach.

‘Ripped From The Headlines,’ Shocking Fort Lauderdale Art Exhibit Turns Heads

By Amber Diaz

https://palmbeachfineartgallery.blogspot.com/2019/04/shocking-fort-lauderdale-art-exhibit.html

“Ripped From The Headlines” will open with a #previewreception at Fatvillage Projects on Friday, April 26, 2019, and will feature 19 artists from throughout South Florida taking on a variety of hot issues, often from deeply personal and intensely political points of view. The goal is to expand awareness, and inform an ongoing dialogue as the news continues to evolve.

Exhibiting artists are: Mary Catello, Rolando Chang Barrero, Pip Brant and Duane Brant, Randy Burman, Orlando Chiang, Mark Cohen, lou anne colodny, Xavier Cortada, Gina Cunningham, TD Gillispie, Isabel Gouveia, Jeanne Jaffe, Sibel Kocabasi, Aurora Molina, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Manuel “Change the Ref” Oliver, Judy Polstra and Barbara Ziev.

*Exhibition and programming free and open to the public. On view until Saturday, June 29, 2019.

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Ripped from The Headlines Interviews

Hola Palm Beach with Rolando Chang Barrero on Hola TV 47

Part 1 of 3

MANUEL OLIVER -"CHANGE THE REF"ARTIVIST Coral Springs, FL http://changetheref.org

Manuel Oliver is the father of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, who was murdered in Parkland Florida on February14/2018 during the MSD high school mass shooting. He is an artist, Creative Director and recognizable mentor for the Advertising Industry, as well as a Gun control campaigner, global activist and international speaker.

Manuel, who immigrated to Parkland from Venezuela, has dedicated himself to a particular brand of not-so-subtle activism. He started a non-profit advocacy group called “Change the Ref,” which seeks to vote out politicians who take NRA money and vote in politicians with gun-safety agendas and used his artist training and guerilla advertising instincts to keep focus on Guac, the 16 other lives lost that day and the more than 40K victims/year from gun violence in US. Recently, he went viral for confronting congressman Matt Gaetz and went viral for eviscerating Louis C.K’s recent “jokes” about Parkland. But Manuel’s biggest project has been a year-long art installment. He and his team created 22 separate murals, sculptures, 3D printed likenesses, and paintings of Guac all over the country. Each mural featured 17 holes punched through the portraits to represent each life lost in the MSD shooting. To celebrate what would have been his son Joaquin’s 18th birthday in August 4th, Manuel gathered his paints and 1,500 supporters and set up a16-foot-wide canvas outside the National Rifle Association’s headquarters in Virginia. Over the shouts of pro-gun protesters, some with holstered firearms, the 51-year-old artistic director from Coral Springs got to work. First, Oliver mounted on the wall a painting of 17-year-old Joaquin, wearing a knit cap and a wry smile. Then, he painted images of 17 birthday candles to symbolize the students and faculty murdered in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Art as Activism: Intervention artist Rolando Chang Barrero In Ripped from the Headlines at F.A.T. Village

First Viewing Friday, April 26, 2019 6 PM – 9 PM

in conjunction with the photography of Kat Wilson in the FAR Gallery at 521 NW 1st Ave

*Kat Wilson will be giving an artist talk at 7pm

El arte como activismo: el artista Rolando Chang Barrero In Ripped from the Headlines en FAT Village

Ripped from The Headlines Interviews

Hola Palm Beach with Rolando Chang Barrero on Hola TV 47

Part 2 of 3

Art Walk Saturday, April 27, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, May 25, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Artists / Curator Talks Sunday, June 9, 2019 4 PM - 6 PM

with talks beginning at 4:30

Closing Art Walk Saturday, June 29 6 PM - 10 PM

AURORA MOLINA Coral Gables , FL https://www.auroramolina.com

Using Guatemala’s traditional back-strap loom textile techniques and hand embroidery, these tapestries represent the desperate screams and sobs of children held at detention centers across the country. The latest immigration crisis led to an estimated 3000 children separated from their parents at the border - some of whom are still in detention today. Many of these centers look like dog kennels where children feel trapped in cages. My work honors these children.

Aurora Molina was born in La Havana, Cuba, in 1984, and emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Florida International University, specializing in Mixed Media, and her MFA in Contemporary Art at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, completed in 2009. She currently lives in Miami, where she is a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, and is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. She also works as an art educator, teaching art to kids who are often from disadvantaged backgrounds or with developmental disabilities, in Miami, Oaxaca, Mexico, Yogjakarta, Indonesia, and Kota, India, often related to the aesthetics of their own cultural traditions.

This has been a frenzied few years and our nation has become ever more polarized. Charges and counter charges, the Me Too movement, Black Lives Matter, white supremacy, migrants, refugees and immigrants, border crossings and border walls, Islamic fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, the Alt Right, the Populist movements, Nazis, Socialists and Communists, mass shootings and the NRA, droughts, storms, fires, floods, climate change and climate change denial, right to life and right to choose, supreme court nominations, job losses, opioid addiction, rallies, marches, protests, investigations, indictments: all compete for our attention as we struggle to decode the information amid the onslaught of a 24 hour news cycle where print, broadcast and online sources.

ORLANDO CHIANG Palm Beach Gardens, FL http://www.orlandochiang.com

My objective as an artist is to convey visually what is inside the mind, and the influence of society on the individual. “The Wall” was conceived in response to the intense debate in this nation over the building of a wall along our southern border, which itself has been built tweet by tweet since Donald Trump first announced his candidacy with the platform of building a wall. This wall is personal to me, as I myself moved from Chile to the US, and my parents immigrated from China to Chile. I find that there is not a barrier, an obstacle or a wall high enough when you have a dream and a strong will for living in a society that will provide you a better standard of life and will respect your human rights regardless your race, religion, political points of views, etc.

The skill and inspiration for Orlando Chiang’s sculptural work derives from many organic sources. His formal training and career are in physical therapy. As such, he remains a life-long student of anatomy—especially the skeleton or, as it’s known in sculpture, the armature. His training inpainting, drawing, and sculpture has taken him on a path from representational to metaphoric ruminations on the meaning of life. His initial artwork featured a straightforward, literal focus on the human figure. More recently, the figure is implied: he creates installations in which the human form of the viewer completes the work. Chiang was born in Chile of Chinese parents. He attended Catholic school, yet now is a practicing Buddhist. That breadth of exposure and connection has helped fuel his desire to express his views concerning the human condition. It also bred in him an appreciation for layers of meaning. Even Chiang’s choice of material hints at a work’s meaning, if only to suggest that everything is not as it appears. His intent is to provoke a spectrum of reactions, and to nurture the diverse mix that has helped to shape him as an artist.

Ripped from The Headlines Interviews

Hola Palm Beach with Rolando Chang Barrero on Hola TV 47

Part 3 of 3

Art Walk Saturday, April 27, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, May 25, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Artists / Curator Talks Sunday, June 9, 2019 4 PM - 6 PM

with talks beginning at 4:30

Closing Art Walk Saturday, June 29 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, April 27, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, May 25, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Artists / Curator Talks Sunday, June 9, 2019 4 PM - 6 PM

with talks beginning at 4:30

Closing Art Walk Saturday, June 29 6 PM - 10 PM

"Rolando Chang Barrero is an artist who has been producing contextual installations, films, video, and political interventions for over 35 years. His work references his personal experiences as multi-dimentional human being that happens to be a visual artist, an AIDS/HIV activist, hispanic community leader, brain cancer survivor, a political activist and advocate for centrisim in the Democratic Party, and is host of the first bilingual cable television talk show in Palm Beach County.

ISABEL GOUVEIA Lake Worth, FL http://www.isabelgouveia.com

Does recycling redeem us from our excessive love of plastics? Lately, it is impossible to ignore our legacy of plastics in oceans, landfills, and even in our food. We are eating what the fish are eating: plastic, a product that is easily produced and facilitates our modern lifestyle of consumption. It is a petroleum-based chemical built with components that are not naturally bound but made by man, so it is difficult to decompose. Plastic breaks down in fragments with exposure to sunlight, but it will take about 1000 years to disappear from the oceans. Meanwhile, ocean creatures confuse them as nutrients. My mind is concerned about the contamination of the environment, the food chain and the sources of oxygen that allow us to continue existing. With this installation, I am addressing the overload of discarded plastic in our oceans, the contamination of marine life and the consequent disappearance of species. My work and research focus on the changing landscape, environmental awareness and the effects most recently observed due to globalization. As an artist, I use various materials in my provisional drawings, paintings, etchings, and digital processes to imagine printed works that respond to the effects of accelerated entropy.

Isabel Gouveia was born in Brazil, and lives and works in Lake Worth, FL. She graduated as an Industrial Designer from the Arts Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, and earned an MFA from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. She was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for 2016/2017.

Art Walk Saturday, April 27, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, May 25, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Artists / Curator Talks Sunday, June 9, 2019 4 PM - 6 PM

with talks beginning at 4:30

Closing Art Walk Saturday, June 29 6 PM - 10 PM

ROSA NADAY GARMENDIA Miami , FL https://www.rosanadaygarmendia.com/

The genesis of this project was ignited when Michael Brown was killed in August of 2014 and the documentation of murdered lives continues. This is an invitation for viewers to participate in a project that features reflection, social interaction, objects and action. With this project, I am interested in creating work that is indelible to the conversations taking place across the United States regarding police brutality, systematic racism, inequality, poverty, and the school to prison pipeline. Rather than taking a “this too will pass” attitude, the Rituals of Commemoration project documents the lives of Black men and women killed by police or security guards since 1979, 292 lives to date, recording each name and date killed. This interactive “counter-monument” is intended to provoke encounters and create an on-site action that marks the killings today. It asks the biggest and most provocative question --- Can WE, can YOU be neutral in all of this? What is the value, if any, of remaining silent?

As a socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist, Rosa Naday Garmendia produces work at the nexus of contemporary art and activism. Her work is rooted in social issues, particularly the intersectionality of her identity as a woman, immigrant, and industrial worker. Her driving impulse is the desire to use art as a tool for self-reflection and to build understanding among people. For the past 5 years, she has been focusing on projects that critically view the role of police, systematic racism, inequality, poverty, and growing military intervention abroad. She considers her artistic practice a daily act of resistance. Rosa Naday has exhibited nationally and across the Caribbean. She is the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium and Ellies Creator Awards. She was born in Havana, Cuba; she speaks Spanish, English and Haitian Creole. She has been working as a professional teaching artist at the Perez Art Museum Miami while engaging in her studio practice.

Art Walk Saturday, April 27, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Art Walk Saturday, May 25, 2019 6 PM - 10 PM

Artists / Curator Talks Sunday, June 9, 2019 4 PM - 6 PM

with talks beginning at 4:30

Closing Art Walk Saturday, June 29 6 PM - 10 PM

Curator, Elle Schorr

Underwater HOA, www.underwaterHOA.org

XAVIER CORTADA Palmetto Bay, FL http://cortada.com/

I travelled to Antarctica in 2006 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Artist and Writers Program Fellow. There, I created a series of works on paper by melting ice samples scientists gave me from their research on how human impacts on global climate are melting the Antarctic glaciers. “Underwater HOA” depicts South Florida’s vulnerability to those melting glaciers: Residents are encouraged to install an “Underwater HOA” yard sign (similar to the yard signs realtors use to sell houses) on their front lawn to show how many feet of melting glacial water must rise before their property is underwater. Each yard sign is numbered to depict the land elevation of that house. The signs’ backdrop shows the watercolor paintings I made in Antarctica by melting ice from the very glaciers that threaten to melt and drown Miami. By mapping the crisis to come, I make the invisible visible. Block by block, house by house, neighbor by neighbor, I want to make the future impact of sea level rise something no longer possible to ignore. As part of the effort, I have chartered a homeowner’s association where members are organized by property elevation–the most important metric any coastal community need consider. By asking participants to join Underwater HOA, www.underwaterHOA.org I engage my neighbors as problem-solvers who will learn together and work together now to plan and better prepare themselves and their heirs for the chaos to come.

Xavier Cortada is Professor of Practice: Artist at the University of Miami. Through his primary appointment in the Department of Art and Art History, he serves in the university’s Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami Business School, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), School of Architecture, School of Communication, and School of Law. His science art practice is oriented toward social engagement and environment concerns. The artist has created art installations at the Earth’s poles to generate awareness about global climate change at points in between: In2007, Cortada used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed in 150,000 years. In 2008, he planted a green flag at the North Pole to reclaim it for nature and launch an eco-art reforestation effort.