No. 1, Autumn / Winter 2021
No. 1, Autumn / Winter 2021 Published by Samuel E Vázquez
Offerta
Founder, creative, curatorial,
Offerta
Cover Image:
and design director:
www.offertamag.com
Breathe, Géraldine Georges
Samuel E Vázquez
Instagram: @_offerta
www.samuelevazquez.net
This publication is made Founder and
possible with the generous
curatorial director:
support of:
Ayanna Tibbs
Nicole Biggerstaff-Vázquez
Instagram: @_ayanna_0724
Frank E. Ross
Editorial contributor: Atsu F. Kpotufe www.youaretheride.com
Disclaimer: All images are the property of the artists and/or photographers. Offerta does not bear any responsibilities for copyrights disputes for images inclusion in this publication.
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Introduction
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Géraldine Georges
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Al Díaz
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Cristina Victor
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Mike Joyce
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Aislee Berenice Nieves
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RD Granados
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Shamira Wilson
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The Founders
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Photo by Samuel E Vázquez
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Introduction Welcome to the first issue of Offerta, a biannual curated publication featuring artists from around the world. From the first art exhibitions I organized featuring international artists, I knew that an arts publication would be a future endeavor to personally explore. Well, the future is now. And after numerous conversations over coffee about culture, music, fashion, art, and style with my dear friend Ayanna Tibbs, we united our interests to establish this publication. Our desire is to share the amazing art being created today—thus the name Offerta (meaning “offering” in Italian) is an ideal embodiment of this shared experience. It is with renewed energies, passion, and a clearly focused direction, that we present you this collection of artists whose work grants us meaningful, inspiring, thoughtful, and engaging perspectives. Enjoy!!! Samuel & Ayanna Co-founders, Offerta
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Géraldine Georges
Géraldine Georges is a Belgian artist that uses
adds to her heroines a mysterious scent, as
a wonderfully sophisticated blend of illustration,
if they were coming out from the pages of a
photography, and painting in her work; creating
forgotten novel.
an appealing mix of mediums. www.geraldinegeorges.be Showing a special preference to black color and using a lot of 80’s references, she creates some of the most breathtaking portraits. With a particular love for the feminine figure, Georges 9
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GÉRALDINE GEORGES Cotton Bud Teens
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GÉRALDINE GEORGES Eve Veil
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GÉRALDINE GEORGES Breathe Autumn
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GÉRALDINE GEORGES Silent Sisters Lace
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GÉRALDINE GEORGES Virgo Devil
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Cerebral Assault 20
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Al Díaz
Al Diaz is best know for his collaboration with
system. After cutting out individual letters to
Jean-Michel Basquiat on SAMO©, graffiti that
create clever, surreal and sometimes poignant
appeared in lower Manhattan from 1977 to
anagrams, he hangs the finished works in sub-
1979. SAMO© initially became known because
ways stations throughout New York City.
of its wit and sarcastic humor; but became a globally recognized graffito after Basquiat’s rise
al-diaz.com
to fame. A prolific and influential first-generation New York City subway graffiti artist, who later became a text-oriented street artist, Diaz’s career spans 5 decades. He currently works with WET PAINT signs used throughout the NYC subway 21
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AL DÍAZ Whales Qualified Candidates 23
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AL DÍAZ Social Distancing Noire 25
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AL DÍAZ We Stand Mesmerized
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AL DÍAZ Forgotten Names and Faces 29
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AL DÍAZ Ghost Painting
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Second Skin (detail)
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Cristina Victor
Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American artist
concern for access, balances her formal object
who’s making always stems from the hyphen.
making and public engagement projects.
Her interdisciplinary practice materializes storytelling, meditations on the failure and power
She received her AA from the New World
of language, auto-ethnography, and critiques
School of the Arts, Her BA from Sarah Law-
the framing of identity by mass media outlets.
rence College and her MFA from the San Fran-
Using performance, textiles, sculpture, installa-
cisco Art Institute.
tion, and public engagement she is committed to creating and facilitating generative exchang-
cristinavictor.com
es about the complexities of our collective and individual human experience. Vexillology, analogue graphic design and archiving act as foundational threads in her translations. Her 33
CRISTINA VICTOR Second Skin Photos by Colin Conces
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CRISTINA VICTOR The Sea Has An Ugly Face In the studio
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Photo by Colin Conces
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CRISTINA VICTOR Rule Breaker My Story Is My Flag II Graham NC Photos by Lacy Haslam 39
CRISTINA VICTOR Sabia Ceramics No Es Facil
Photo by Eric Louis Haines
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Photo credit: Bakehouse Art Center
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Photo by Jesse Ly
CRISTINA VICTOR House of Duende Una Mas En El Monton
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Photo credit: Mi mama!
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The Smiths
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Mike Joyce Mike Joyce is the founder of Stereotype Design
flyers into hundreds of striking International
in New York City, a one-man studio specializing
Typographic Style posters. In 2013, a 200-page
in wide-ranging projects for the entertainment
oversized art book published by Quirk Books.
industry. He has designed album packaging
Two Ziggy Stardust designs from the Swissted
for established artists including Iggy Pop, Katy
collection were selected by London’s Victoria
Perry, The Cars, Fall Out Boy, Thirty Seconds to
and Albert Museum, the Museum of Contem-
Mars, Natalie Merchant, The Lemonheads, Wil-
porary Art Chicago, and the Australian Centre
lie Nelson, Morphine, The Replacements, Miles
for the Moving Image to be offered as limited
Davis, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Heart, The
edition prints coinciding with the acclaimed
Runaways, Sevendust, Cursive, David Sedaris,
David Bowie Is exhibition. Six Swissted posters
Foo Fighters, New York Dolls, Blue Man Group,
were chosen for Swiss Style, an exhibition at
Vampire Weekend, and Aretha Franklin.
the Museum of Design, Zürich and are now archived in it’s permanent collection.
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www.swissted.com
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MIKE JOYCE Lemonheads The Replacements
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MIKE JOYCE GBH, Nada Surf Blur
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MIKE JOYCE Generation X Bikini Kill
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MIKE JOYCE 9353, The Cure Pearl Jam, The Undertones
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MIKE JOYCE Corrosion of Conformity Adolescents, The Jam
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Concrete Paradise #7, Samuel E Vázquez
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Aislee Berenice Nieves Aislee Berenice Nieves is a Brooklyn born
narrative history, and the importance of sharing
Youth Developer, Photographer, and Blogger
one’s testimony. She decided to document
committed to motivating humanity to express
the pivotal moments of her life and emotions
themselves in safe, healthy, and developmental
during her overwhelming transition from Brook-
ways. Having always been a writer, Aislee spent
lyn to Greencastle, IN. Although the book was
most of her undergraduate years expressing
written during this awful, yet exciting transition,
herself via hand journal and Wordpress. Her in-
it focuses more on the heart and its feelings
spiration centers around youth, expressionism,
throughout these years after experiencing
and storytelling.
heartbreak, sorority life, friendship, and distance from her true home, The Big Apple.
Majoring in history while at DePauw, Nieves realized the true power of storytelling, via
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Hustle I am killing it. i went from day to night i am able I am overextending my capabilities for the best of my community. I am growing. I no longer fear adversity. I am no longer the same.
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Tears of Liberation Wrote this: on the last day of the decade. Today I got off on Delancey and began to cry because it was the first time I felt alive after so long. Freedom.
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Umbrella. We are working on it together.
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Concrete Paradise #8, Samuel E Vázquez
Words from Poppy karma is sexy. I tried to make myself hesitate when it came to cursing your name. Maldicion. it never got serious. hearing what you said was shocking. yet rooted in fraudulent pain and self infliction. that shit hurt. I’m respectfully grateful for your opinion. god however, he’s mad at you for treating his daughter that way. sick. i hope you heal, heal from it all.
— Aislee Berenice Nieves
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Professor Nobody you thought you could guide me you centered our love on your facilitation you took your time with me you planned me you were careful with every step you know me like the back of my hand. little did you know and barely could you understand that you will never, could never, should never be my teacher
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Concrete Paradise #10 (detail), Samuel E Vázquez
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Umbrella Pt. 2 it’s the first thing you let me dance with when I got here. you lost it, like i lost my book. you took it everywhere my book was always with me. you lost me, and I lost you. however, why is it always raining ? its raining right now.
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Fill Your Own Jar outings and held back thoughts about you all fit in the jar. That’s where they’ll stay. if it’s unfulfilled, why are you still there? you want answers, sure. you have questions for me then? chemicals I don’t play with- i don’t deal with science that has been discovered. fresh chemistry is different, isn’t it? Where’s the map to your body? i’m afraid of new territory.
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Flowers What do flowers mean to you? What do you associate them with? Would you like them as a gift? Do you get them often? Do you even like them? Why? What do they mean to you? Flowers? What do they mean.
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Stove
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RD Granados
Domestic Discard is a series of photographs
enigmatic and intriguing, intimate and revealing,
documenting found and discarded items
dismal and disturbing.
throughout the California High Desert. Each item, abandoned and recorded as it was found,
The viewer is forced to examine these
represents a previous life with a unique narra-
discarded possessions and draw their own
tive unknown to the viewer.
conclusions.
What is often seen yet overlooked as insignif-
IG: @rd_granados
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RD GRANADOS Chair, Book Chair #2, Vac 73
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RD GRANADOS VHS, Washed Up Mixer, Loveseat 77
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Where Do We Go From Here
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Shamira Wilson
Shamira Wilson is an Indianapolis-based
her compositions express impressions
interdisciplinary visual artist.
left by the contemporary domestic, built, and natural landscape.
Wilson creates minimal abstract art that explores the repeat patterns of textiles. Her work
shamirawilson.com
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SHAMIRA WILSON Seed Starter, Breathwork Transformation 82
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SHAMIRA WILSON Lepidoptera (details) Lepidoptera (digital mock-up)
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SHAMIRA WILSON Liv (in progress) Liv
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SHAMIRA WILSON Us
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SHAMIRA WILSON Asphalt Mural (Collaboration with Cory Robinson) In-progress photos by Tony Vasquez
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The Founders
Samuel E Vázquez (b. 1970, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Ayanna Tibbs (b. 1990, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a
is a contemporary visual artist working primarily in
contemporary artist who aims to merge complex
found materials and mixed media. He has exhibited
ideas with simple yet striking imagery. Her most
alongside Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Sam
recent body of work has been a study on how light
Gilliam, Sabina Klein, Sam Francis, Keith Haring,
interacts with structure.
Torrick “Toxic” Ablack, and Futura 2000 among others. His work is rooted in the New York City subway
ayannatibbs1design@gmail.com
painting era of the 1970s and 80s and informed
Instagram: @_ayanna_0724
by the work of Ed Clark, Mimmo Rotella, Jacques Villeglé, Jackson Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Vázquez holds degrees from New York City College of Technology—CUNY and Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. His work is in numerous public and private collections. www.samuelevazquez.net 92
