An in-depth interview with Carlos Estévez, the first artist to be profiled in our Contemporary Artists Series, led by writer and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera.
Carlos Estevez’s work is animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality.His stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm to the spirit that lies hidden beneath the visible world, a process that he refers to as an alchemical, metaphysical transformation of mystery into knowledge.
The interview will be followed by a Q&A with the audience via Zoom.
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This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
[Image above: Carlos Estévez, Ciudad celeste (Celestial City). 2017
Oil and watercolor pencil on canvas. 88″ x 88″]
Born in Havana in 1969, Carlos Estévez graduated from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), and received the Grand Prize in the First Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art in Havana in 1995. Living all of his life in post-Revolutionary Cuba, Estévez sought both artistic and personal freedom. After years of extensive travel, he left Cuba with his young family and settled in Miami in 2004. He has since received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Center of Contemporary Art, New Orleans; Lowe Art Museum at Miami University, Florida; and the Stoors Gallery at University of North Carolina Charlotte.
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera is Professor of Literature
and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition to being
published poet and literary critic, she is the author of a
number of critical works, including ReMembering Cuba:
Legacy of a Diaspora, the novel The Pearl of the Antilles,
the edited collection of essays Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced,
and the monograph Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora:
Setting the Tent Against the House. Her play, The Presence of
Absence (a Cuban nocturne), was selected as a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Film Festival and Literary Competition, and a finalist in the prestigious Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) Carnaval of New Latina/o Work; and presented as a staged reading at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver. The CCCNY will be presenting the play in 2023.
This event is co-sponsored by Cuba Art NY
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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