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St. Croix Venues Exhibit 22 Contemporary Artists

Feb. 27, 2009 – Contemporary art exhibits titled "Facing Locality," curated by Luis Camnitzer, will take place at two venues on St. Croix: the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Frederiksted, which will open Friday, March 6; and Walsh Metal Works Gallery, Christiansted, which will open Saturday, March 7. They will run through April 4.
The exhibit intends to raise the issues of locality, frame of reference, ingrown resonance and tacit understandings that in art often are sacrificed for the sake of external conventions and expectations. Local artists around the world look towards the cultural and marketing centers for inspiration or try to satisfy the expectations of foreign visitors who look for the signals of exoticism. Thus true locality is often completely erased from the art repertoire, or is translated and misrepresented.
Twenty-two artists were chosen, mostly from the U.S.V.I. and Puerto Rico, and born after 1947. The paintings, photos, sculptures, drawings, installations, videos, mixed media and multimedia art works were created by Stanley Coll, La Vaughn Belle, Javier Cambre, Janet Cook-Rutnik, Nanna Debois Buhl, Florine Demosthene, Doug Frank, Cynthia Hatfield, Sara Lee Hayes, Tomas Lanner, Monica Marin, Carmen Mojica, Mark W. Mulherrin, Hilda M. Muñiz, Erik Pedersen, Nora Quintero, Quintín Rivera Toro, Vimarie Serrano, Carmelo Sobrino and Lisa Ladner (collaborative work), Nelly Toledo and Mike Walsh.
Luis Camnitzer, the curator, was born 1937 in Lübeck, Germany, moved to Uruguay at age one and settled in the USA in 1964. In 1988 he represented Uruguay in the Venice Biennial and in 2002 he participated at the Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany. He is emeritus professor of the State University of New York and is presently the pedagogical curator of the Iberé Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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