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Cande Aguilar. Chanito, 2018, multimedia painting with image transfer & found object on panel, 81x96.5 in. Imqge courtesy of the artist and 81 Leonard Gallery.
Exhibition
Cande Aguilar: barrioPOP
5 Sep 2019 – 28 Sep 2019
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 81 Leonard Street
- New York
New York - 10013
- United States
Cande Aguilar first solo-show in New York charting the development of his artistic style barrioPOP.
About
In partnership with Ric Michel Fine Art, for its inaugural exhibition 81 Leonard Gallery presents Cande Aguilar’s first solo show in New York. The retrospective charts the development of Aguilar’s vibrant artistic style barrioPOP. Inspired by the hybrid culture of Brownsville located in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and using humorous juxtapositions of pop-cultural references the artist’s work celebrates the barrio in which he grew up.
On his canvases, Aguilar plays freely with (dis)guises and suggestive contrasts sampling imagery from comics, his daughter’s coloring books, and vintage video games combining them with local hand-painted signage, street art, and other markers of the urban environment. His work rhythmically unfolds a narrative where Mexican and American cultures are irrevocably connected highlighting that Mexican-American
