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he exhibition ‘On the Samara’s Orlando Museum of Art’s The Florida geology, and the performative to Wing’ will end its run at The Prize 2018. investigate and develop origin myths Frank on January 23. The Rhea Leonard is an African that incorporate African diaspora exhibition focuses on artists who and Native American traditions. explore immigration, diaspora, trans- American artist who uses drawing, Lisyanet Rodriguez, a Cuban-born national identity, race and belonging printing, and sculpture to examine through dramatic allegories of land- subjects related to the psychology, painter and illustrator, addresses the scape, botany, textiles and organic place, and perception of people theme of vulnerability by making materials. Exhibiting artists include of color in today’s society. She is things that appear soft and familiar John Alleyne, Edouard Duval-Carrié, presently a resident artist at Miami, while still being potentially danGonzalo Fuenmayor, Rhea Leonard, Florida’s Bakehouse Art Complex. gerous. Cuba, Florida, California, T. Eliott Mansa, Lisyanet Rodriguez Edouard Duval-Carrié, a local Kentucky, Portugal, England, and Italy and Onajídé Shabaka. curator and worldwide visual artist, have all had exhibitions of her art. objective of finding objects gathThe show brings together interna- makes new adaptations of traditional John Alleyne, a Barbadian artist ered from wayside monuments. tional and first-generation artists with Haitian iconography that allow him who relocated to Brooklyn, NY, was Ritual activities from West African, a wide range of backgrounds and to connect with and confront mod- encouraged by street art to utilize Caribbean, and Southern religious professional experiences. Gonzalo ern societal issues. His art invites spray paint and silkscreen-collage. and vernacular sculptural traditions Fuenmayor is a Colombian artist viewers to explore how Africa His work aims to question how Black are included in his work. whose drawings and installations influenced the Americas, as well people are portrayed and what For more information about the frequently address two themes: as how the Caribbean shaped the masculinity means. Alleyne’s art exhibition, gallery times, and to cultural hybridity and global identity. modern globe. Onajdé Shabaka has been shown in New York, Los participate in upcoming proHis work has been shown throughout is a cultural practitioner, poet, and Angeles, Ireland, and Louisiana. T. grams, visit the United States, Latin America, artist who combines ethnobotany, Eliott Mansa subverts the intended www.thefrankgallery.org and Europe, most recently at the
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