Exhibition on view through July 3, 2022 at Art Museum of the Americas, OAS
HOURS Tuesday-Sunday 10AM-5PM
This exhibition presents the work of Dominican artist Julio Valdez, framing his printmaking practice as the primary axis of a multilayered production process. In 1994, Valdez arrived in New York City to study at the legendary Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, an applied experience that changed the direction of his artistic career. Today he practices printmaking in tandem with drawing, painting, and mixed-media techniques.
One recurring presence in his work is water. As an infinite abstraction of circumstance that connects his native Dominican Republic with his present-day home in the United States, water is a subject through which he challenges the notion of a Caribbean ideal, addressing issues of race, migration, and inequality.
Art Museum of the Americas, OAS