NADA Miami | Project Booth 21
NEW ETCHINGS by KENNY RIVERO + VINCENT SMITH from the ARCHIVES of BLACKBURN
OUTDOOR SCULPTURE by CHAKAIA BOOKER
5-8 DECEMBER 2019
Kenny Rivero Peligro 2019 Etching with Chine Collé, Edition of 7
We are pleased to participate in NADA Miami Projects with NEW Works on Paper by Kenny Rivero along side a single selected etching Shadows in Harlem, 1965 by Vincent Dacosta Smith from Robert Blackburn's archives.
From a series of eight etchings, Vincent (as he signs his prints) filled his plates of dense Harlem scenes of his own time. These moments are often historical noting school segregation, the funeral of Coltrane, and the general bustle of street scenes of people walking, shopping or standing on stoops.
Rivero engages with a visual composition as an active memoir, reading fragments of phone numbers to US American references of Batman or the Yankees. The city is a reputable subject for his own work as well; yet, often with lone figures, littered pavement with a single rose and tossed knifes, buildings with broken windows and peering eyes in place of bricks—looking to the viewer.
Projects of NADA New York include a diverse group of institutions, non-profit organizations, collectives, publications, and companies working with contemporary artists
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The 17th edition of NADA Miami, to be held December 5–8, 2019 at Ice Palace Studios, is dedicated to showcasing new art and to celebrating the rising talents from around the globe.
NADA holds a renowned art fair to vigorously pursue our goals of exploring new or underexposed art that is not typical of the “art establishment.” NADA Miami is the one of the only major American art fairs to be produced by a non-profit organization, and is recognized as a much needed alternative assembly of the world’s youngest and strongest art galleries dealing with contemporary art.