Let us gather in a flourishing way : contemporary Latinx painting / edited by Andrea Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alvarez, Andrea, (Curator), editor.

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, issuing body.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American art--Exhibitions.

Hispanic American art.

Art, Latin American--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Latin American.

Artists--Latin America.

Artists.

Hispanic Americans in art.

Buffalo AKG Art Museum--Exhibitions.

Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

255 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, New York : Buffalo AKG Art Museum ; New York : DelMonico Books , 2026

Language Note:

Parallel text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

"Revealing the richness and complexity that characterizes contemporary Latinx painting, Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way offers a panoramic overview of the field at a crucial moment in history. This bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition catalog celebrates the innovations and interventions that Latinx artists enact on established traditions of painting, inviting dialogue on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field. These artists encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines. Highlighting thematic groupings that include a range of stylistic and material approaches, the book emphasizes commonalities across regions and generations, as artists consider the notions of community, land, placemaking and the writing or rewriting of histories. With 70 works by 58 artists based across the United States and Puerto Rico, this lively and lavishly designed catalog presents a vision of Latinx art that is expansive, dialogic and, like the diaspora itself, infinitely complex."-- Publisher's description

Contents:

Foreword / Janne Sirén

Acknowledgments / Andrea Alvarez

(New) histories. [Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way] / Juan Felipe Herrera

Bodies & figures. These are our paintings, our breath / Andrea Alvarez

Identity/place. The irreducibility of Latinx art / Adriana Zavala

Abstractions. Latinx Artesanía painting : cultural fantasies and material rebellion / Claudia E. Zapata

Pinturx. Performing cultural memory, gathering Latinx painting / Xuxa Rodríguez

Community. Los Ángeles paints itself / Danie Cansino, Karla Diaz, rafa esparza, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Eamon Ore-Giron, and Joseph Daniel Valencia

Land/tierra. So many years we dreamed the colors / Juan Felipe Herrera.

Notes:

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way", organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and curated by Curator Andrea Alvarez.

Exhibitions: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, March 6- September 6, 2026 ; Des Moines Art Center, October 24, 2026- January 24, 2027 ; Phoenix Art Museum, November 10, 2027- February 27, 2028 ; Frye Art Museum, April 15- August 20, 2028.

Artists include: Firelei Báez, Felipe Baeza, David Antonio Cruz, José Delgado Zúñiga, rafa esparza, Justin Favela, Teresita Fernández, Jay Lynn Gomez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Salomón Huerta, Larry Madrigal, Guadalupe Maravilla, Leslie Martinez, Patrick Martinez, Yvette Mayorga, Eamon Ore-Giron, Angel Otero, Bony Ramirez, Carlos-Rosales-Silva, Shizu Saldamando, Ilana Savdie, Vincent Valdez, Sarah Zapata.

Illustrations on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781636811734

1636811736

OCLC:

1552039354