GUTTENBERG – Guttenberg Arts Gallery presents Mettre Noir Sur Blanc, a solo exhibition of works by Cuban-born artist Juana Valdes, from July 3 through Aug. 1. Her work explores the complex process of migration. The opening reception takes place on July 10 from 7 to 9 p.m. with an artist talk at 8 p.m.
Multi-disciplinary artist Juana Valdes’ work traces, recollects, and records her own personal experience of migration, directly informed by her Afro-Cuban ethnicity growing up in America. Valdes focuses on the homespace of the diasporic community along with their new homeland.
Valdes completed her M.F.A. in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1993 and her B.F.A. in sculpture at Parsons School of Design in 1991. She was born in Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba and came to the United States in 1971. Her work has been including in exhibitions at the Hudson River Museum, Art in General, El Museo del Barrio, WhiteBox Gallery, Bronx River Art Center, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, Center and Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, and Nohra Haime Gallery, Newark Museum’s The Caribbean Abroad: Contemporary Artists and Latino Migration, Un-staged at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, D’ailleurs – I Won’t Play Other to Your Sameat Galerie Art & Essai, University Rennes, France and many international venues in Holland, Germany, Australia, Belgium, France, and Poland. She is included in the Newark Museum’s permanent collection and many private collections throughout the United States.
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