GAMALIEL HERRERA

Exile Books Pop Up at Books & Books in Coral Gables will be featuring Quaternity Series, Artist Book I. 

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Self-Published

Artists Making Books, Editions and Zines 

Curated by Juana Meneses and Leila A. Leder Kremer

On View October 9 – November 7

Katie Lynn Acosta, Julia Arredondo, Peter Borrebach, Randy Burman, Amalia Caputo, Marina Font, Felice Grodin & Gean Moreno, Gamaliel Herrera, Kathleen Hudspeth, Angelica Londoño, Marie Marcano, Toby Millman, Ania Moussawel, Ingrid Schindall, Evelyn Serrano, Carol Todaro, Louisa Van Leer and Natalie Zlamalova.

Self-Published: Artists Making Books, Editions and Zines aims to create appreciation and understanding for artists’ books as portable, intimate, democratic and self-contained works of art. The exhibition will feature different themes and approaches; being common denominator the book format and its different possibilities. To highlight the book as a creative space, the curators commissioned artists with ties to South Florida to make small run, limited edition artists’ books. The exhibition will also feature artwork connected to the artists’ book commissioned and process notes. A variety of media and formats will be explored with installations throughout campus that intersect and define the book format in unexpected ways. In the spirit of Self-Published, production resources will be available to the community as well as a zine making station at the Art Lab gallery. During the closing reception, a book exchange will take place to share all of the publications made by the Florida Gulf Coast University and Fort Myers community.

Opening Reception & Lecture (Main Gallery): October 9, 5-8pm

Bring a Book/ Take a Book library: October 9 – November 7, 2014

Closing Reception & Workshop: November 7, 5-8pm

Art Lab, Florida Gulf Coast University

10501 FGCU Blvd South, Fort Myers, FL 33965

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ArtSee Eyewear Battery Park City presents “Corpora delicti”, paitings and collage works by artist Gamaliel Herrera, on view from September 25 through December 14, 2014. www.artseebpc.com

The works of Gamaliel Herrera take on a somewhat curious polyvalent stance on the word “curate”.  While this word has become “a fashionable code among the aesthetically minded “ – The New York Times (10/02/2009)-, this artist-curator-physician not only selects, edits and reconfigures pieces that he finds closer to the dumpster than the museum, he instills a notion of “curing” or healing that is closer to the original meaning of the Latin term curare, which means to treat or cure or to look after.

Herrera’s abstract manipulations of the found images and surfaces intend to fool with figurative expectations, often giving the feeling of getting close to a landscape or portrait. The color palate is reduced, dark, tending to the photographic negative or inverse. The works are raw, elegant, and tend towards the affective, the personal, the unique.