With Brute Force and Steel, This Artist Creates Works of Ephemeral Beauty
April 11, 2024
The New York Times - The Art of Craft: is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art.
Text by Rose Courteau. Photographs and Video by Justin J Wee
Online & print edition
April 13 – June 8, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday April 13, 5:30 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday May 11, 4:30 pm
Participating Artists: Alva G. Calymayor, Jessica Lagunas, Damali Abrams, Michelle Frick, Sotiris Papanikolaou, Hilario Alonso, Marion Fischer, Angeliki Douveri, Mary Cox, Marco Saavedra, Vidal Centeno, Julio Rodriguez, Leenda Bonilla, Luis A. Pagan, Olga Correa, Paul Lambermont, Devin Osorio, Néstor Pérez-Molière, Jake Alfieri, Panagiotis Voulgaris, Katherine Miranda, Darryl Ebanks, Kephera Nuru Ife
Organized by Blanka Amezkua
Bronx River Art Center
1087 E. Tremont Ave.,
Bronx, NY 10460
March 21 – April 6, 2024
Opening Reception: March 21, 7pm
Group show: Blanka Amezkua, Collectif MASI, Efi Fouriki, Marco Goldenstein, Claudia-Maria Luenig, Cornelia Mittendorfer, Yiannis Pappas
Curated by Vassiliki Vayenou, Stratis Pantazis
Potential Project
25, Andrea Metaxa St.,
Athens 11524, Greece
The group exhibition COMBINED derives its ideas and aims from the different meanings of the specific word, such as to add together, to come together, to unite in order to have an effect, while it activates every form of combinatorial reasoning, even that of a scheme. The implications of the word's connotations are closely related, metaphorically and literally, to the worldwide political instability and crisis of the present years. In this light, the artworks of the participating artists expose the ways in which the financial and political crisis mechanisms divert our attention away from the devastating, irreversible effects of environmental destruction, as well as the operational modes of capitalism. In addition, multiculturalism, the systematic support of actions related to both visible and invisible divisions, intolerance, misinformation and the violation of human rights are examined.
The exhibition aims at revealing the ways of contemporary art's power to uncover the conditions that feed a global political situation. A situation, which increasingly ignores human values, obscures truth and justice, as well as openly marginalizes attempts to improve our troubled world. Perhaps, in the spirit of humanism, we can take action to subvert the establishments that perpetuate and breed the destruction of our inner and outer world.
March 9 – April 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 5pm - 7pm
Group show: Blanka Amezkua, Pyari Azaadi - formerly known as Jaishri Abichandani, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Jessica Lagunas, Rejin Leys, Dianne Smith, Virginia Ines Vergara
Curated by Vladimir Cybil Charlier
GARNER Arts Center
55 West Railroad Ave.
Garnerville, NY 10923
This body of work aims to dialogue with the artist's individuality and how it transcends their perceived American-ness or non-American-ness. Blanka Amezkua's installation in the Ned Harris Gallery provides a tactile contrast to the Main Gallery space as she reclaims her 'selfhood' through the traditional Mexican craft of papel picado.
San Francisco, CA
September 20, 2024 - January 19, 2025
FOR-SITE celebrates the success of The Guardhouse Program's pilot year announcing artists for the 2024 Program.
Selected through an open call for proposals, three artists will present new work viewable 24 hours a day through the windows of The Guardhouse, a former military guard station at the main entrance to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Installations at The Guardhouse will relate to the cultural and natural history of the site, strengthening FOR-SITE's commitment to supporting site-specific interventions addressing the most pressing issues of our time.
The Guardhouse Program will close out 2024 with an installation by Blanka Amezkua celebrating indigenous, medicinal flowers found at Black Point Historic Gardens, a National Park site at Fort Mason Center. Based in New York, Amezkua is a Mexican-born, Latinx American artist, educator, and project creator with exhibitions at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, and El Museo del Barrio, among others. Her practice merges formal training as a painter with folk art and pop-cultural forms.
LMCC Workspace Residency 2023 - 2024
September 2023 - June 2024
LMCC's longest running residency program, Workspace, is a nine-month studio-based program that focuses on the creative process and cohort development of New York City artists.
New York, NY
October 13 - 15, 2023
UNIFORM, ARMOR, IDENTITY. EXPRESS, PROVOKE, CONFORM
The artists participating in Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS walk the runway that is 14th Street exploring all sides of the theme with projects examining clothing production and colonialism, fast fashion and waste, transformation and gender identity (and intolerance), cultural identity, work and labor, censorship, the passage of time and its traces, beauty, disability, status, armor, joy and grief.
Colloquium Talk on Women and Diversity with Aída Miró in Ebusus
Ebusus Cultural Society
Ibiza, Spain
July 17, 2023
The talk will include a special guest, Blanka Amezkua, one of the women captured in photographs by Miró during her time in the Bronx.
The exhibition showcases a series of 12 portraits of women from the Bronx, accompanied by video interviews with each of them. It serves as a tribute to the diversity and strength of women from the Bronx.
Hierbitas de Saberes / Tiny Herbs of Knowledge
The Famous Hardware Store
113 West Emma Avenue; Springdale, Arkansas
March 6 – June 5, 2023
Curated by Lucas Cowan
Famous Hardware Store curations are a partnership between CACHE and the Downtown Springdale Alliance, with funding support from the Tyson Family Foundation.
Join Blanka Amezkua for a discussion of her exhibition, "Hierbitas de Saberes" (Tiny Herbs of Knowledge) now on view in Downtown Springdale on April 28, 2023.
AAA3A — Alexander Avenue Apartment 3A
Artist run gregarious living room occurrences, face to face exchanges, victual, dialogue, workshops, residencies and art in the former home of the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project. Beginning in October 2016 in Mott Haven, South Bronx. Project initiator.
Bronx, NY
October 15, 2016 - present
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