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Contemporary Latin American & diaspora art
Current exhibit: ‘A los Animales los mata el sol’ | Erick Víquez | Miami

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ARCHIVE ENTRY 52 | Beneath The Stillness: The Fractured Realities of Venezuela | Gabriela Agreda

Gabriela Agreda’s works possess a density of layers so seamlessly intertwined that their emotional impact hits you all at once. On the surface, her pieces present peaceful snapshots of ordinary Venezuelan life: a man on a motorcycle, a woman fixing her car, another driving with her arm resting on the window, feeling the warm, sunny breeze. But the moment your eyes catch the bent, crumpled frame of the car’s chassis—the physical scars of a harsher reality—the illusion shatters.

The seemingly peaceful images speak directly to the socio-political crisis in Venezuela, where decades of hyperinflation and systemic collapse have left citizens to navigate a grueling daily reality. The majority are structural victims of a corrupt system. They have tried to fight, yet at the end of the day, they have to go on with their everyday life. Because Agreda avoids heavy-handed political statements, her paintings remain peaceful—and that is exactly what makes them so saddening.

Her materials—personal photos, raw wood, and cold cement—force us to think about our own capacity for ignorance. It is distressing to see what is an inescapable reality for some being casually consumed as a passing headline by a global media that flattens out a more complicated truth.

Ultimately, Agreda’s practice honors the resilience of the ordinary citizen and shows us that the sometimes, the most profound political statements are found not only in the noise of conflict, but also in the determination of the ordinary people to simply keep moving forward.
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Some of the work we loved during New York’s Art Week.

#thebureau

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Spent quality time w Erick and can say he’s smart, insightful and pura vida :) His work draws people in for it’s calming yet ominous color palette and tropical subject matter. Plus he has a painting of a dog which makes him cool in my book! Grateful to have him at our art space @laundromatartspace till July 8

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𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐕𝐢́𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐳

Erick Víquez is a Costa Rican painter whose work explores memory, history, and the gothic dimensions of Latin America through haunting depictions of tropical and domestic landscapes. Drawing from literature, archives, and art history, he constructs psychologically charged scenes where beauty and unease coexist, challenging romanticized views of the tropics through a distinctly Central American Gothic lens.

In “A los animales los mata el sol,” Víquez presents new works that deepen his exploration of landscape, violence, and memory within the region’s cultural and historical narratives.

A los animales los mata el sol
Erick Víquez
June 6 — July 8

📍 Laundromat Art Space — 185 NE 59th Street, Miami, FL 33137

Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12–4PM (Monday & Tuesday by appointment)
Free and open to the public

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Art Events Happening This Weekend in Miami (June 4 – June 7)

THURSDAY 6/4

FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY OPEN HOUSE
📅 7–8:30 PM | @fountainheadarts
Open Studios

ART CLUB @ THE BOOMBOX
📅 7 PM – 1 AM | @artclubforever
Art Event

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SATURDAY 6/6

CRYS RAMKISSOON: “FOUND OBJECT DRAPED SERIES”
📅 2–4 PM | @artworkassociates
Figure Drawing

“SUNSHINE & INK: THE FLORIDA PRINTMAKERS”
📅 5–8 PM | @thecenterhollywood
Art Opening

“VETERANS’ VOICES: A 250TH ANNIVERSARY PORTFOLIO”
📅 5–8 PM | @thecenterhollywood
Art Opening

JEN LITTLE: “WAX. PIGMENT. FIRE.”
📅 5–8 PM | @thecenterhollywood
Art Opening

“CLOSE TO HOME”
📅 5:30–7:30 PM | @nsuartmuseum
Art Opening

FRANTZ ZÉPHIRIN: “THE MESSENGER”
📅 5:30–7:30 PM | @nsuartmuseum
Art Opening

GLENN BARKLEY: “IN THE CACTUS GARDEN”
📅 6–8:30 PM | @mindysolomongallery
Art Opening

MINKYU LEE: “INSTINCT”
📅 6–8:30 PM | @mindysolomongallery
Art Opening

CHRISTINE REBHUHN: “BLOW”
📅 6–8:30 PM | @mindysolomongallery
Art Opening

ERICK VÍQUEZ: “A LOS ANIMALES LOS MATA EL SOL”
📅 6–9 PM | @laundromatartspace
Art Opening

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SUNDAY 6/7

HEY RUBY PRESENTS: NATALIE GALINDO
📅 11 AM | @heyrubyhospitality
Artist Talk

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Click the IG handle for more details.

#MiamiArt #MiamiEvents #ArtWeekend

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Vista Parcial, 2026
Image transfer and resin on ceramic tile
4.5 x 4.5 in

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NADA 2k26 - more yellow shorts for me, no yellow shirts for you... unless you stopped at the shop. Yes, shopkeeping on my week away from the shop, ironic!

Got to meet SO many new, and run into a few familiar. What an inspiring week, every time.

I love art.

#phenaaminalview

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ARCHIVE ENTRY 40 | Questioning The Myth of A Linear Narrative: Laura Castro

I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to walk alongside other species of humans. It would have been like having siblings, a natural coexistence seen in most other animal. We are, in a sense, a lonely branch of the evolutionary tree.

Yet, looking at the work of Dominican artist and curator Laura Castro, I find myself thinking: perhaps it is better the way things are. Her installation, Tiempo lineal fragmentado o La historiografía antropocéntrica es una falacia obsoleta (2026), brings together tempera, ink, and bleach on canvas, juxtaposed with raw rubble and natural elements. Based in Santo Domingo, Castro’s practice consistently interrogates how the Caribbean territory’s identity has been violently shaped and flattened by Eurocentric colonial narratives. By introducing physical debris into the gallery space, she ruptures the clean, linear illusion of historical progress. The piece functions as a direct confrontation with our history’s relentless cycle of unresolved problems, forcing us to face the structural decay we inherited.

This erasure may take on an even grander, biological weight when applied to our entire genus. All our current socio-political struggles exist in a scenario where only one human species, Homo sapiens, remains. Our global history is already deeply scarred by systemic racism, colonization, and class warfare engineered within our own species. Imagine the astronomical complications if other human species had survived alongside us into the modern era: class distinctions explicitly biological rather than economic, legal systems of segregation codified by species, or even more severe inequalities of “species” rights. Humanity has proven a dark genius for exploiting minor internal differences; it would have utterly weaponized an entirely separate evolutionary branch.

Perhaps our evolutionary loneliness is not a tragedy, but a mercy. In the end, as I look at Castro’s fragmented canvas and the rubble of our past, I find myself strangely glad that it is just us on this earth.
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Graaaaacias @amandamgf @ala.projects for trusting meee 🫶🫶🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🫶

@newartdealers NADA booth B4

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Join Venezuela-born, New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Gabriela Agreda (@agredart) as she discusses her cement series at NADA’S ALA Projects booth (@newartdealers @ala.projects). Agreda’s work “examines physical spaces as repositories of collective memory, documenting the transformations of the Venezuelan urban landscape.”

“I started to reflect on the architecture as a living space, remembering what happens. Even though people move forward with life, the space can still hold the weight of everything that happened.”

#contemporaryart #ceramic #latinamericanart #venezuelanart #mocany

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@newartdealers NADA New York installation View

0️⃣1️⃣ 胶囊上海 @capsuleshanghai ｜道格拉斯·莱杰（Douglas Rieger）
0️⃣2️⃣Voltz Clarke gallery @voltzclarkegallery | Ruth Owens
0️⃣3️⃣Latitude Gallery @latitudegallery_newyork | 张尚丰
0️⃣4️⃣Rain Rain Gallery @rainraingallery ｜Kosuke Kahawaha
0️⃣5️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Ala projects @ala.projects | Gabriela Agreda
0️⃣7️⃣Todd Stong @toddstong
0️⃣8️⃣THIRD BORN @thirdborn.mx ｜Loucia Carlier
0️⃣9️⃣弥金画廊 @gene_gallery ｜高晓依

#nada #newyork

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the New Art Dealers Alliance New York Art Fair 🖼️

my first art fair! i felt like a little kid in a candy shop. so many great pieces and artists and galleries from all over the world. it’s on going through Sunday 05/17 so there’s still time to add to your weekend plans 👀

📍: @newartdealers
🖼️: @forgottenlands.art @andraegreenstudios @conaltura.us @ala.projects @agredart

#artfair #nycart #internationalartist #NADA #newartdealersalliance

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