Alex Arrechea
Alexandre Arrechea’s work comprises large scale installations, sculptures, watercolor drawings, and videos that debate such issues as history, memory, politics, and the power relations of the urban space. Arrechea’s mode of working site specifically makes him explore the ideological and philosophical legacy of the surrounding context to create a --more engaging interaction with the audience. His exploration of space contemplates cultural resonances implicit in architecture, from design to social value, and how these condition its multiple readings. This approach to dissecting architectural anatomies and spaces through drawings and installations explores the possibility of multiple conflicts embedded in architeture as result of the many decisions “hidden” in their structures. He is internationally renowned as one of the founding members of the Cuban collective, Los Carpinteros [The Carpenters], active between 1991 and 2003. Embarking on his solo career in the same year, Arrechea is widely recognized for Nolimits (2013), a monumental project composed of ten sculptures inspired by iconic buildings in New York City and erected along Park Avenue, and Katrina Chairs (2016), erected at the Coachella Music Festival, Palm Springs, California, USA. Last December, he created “Dreaming with Lions,” an immersive rotunda resembling an enormous library installed at Faena Miami Beach.
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Ian Ross
A prolific muralist, ceramicist, installation artist, and painter, Ian Ross is a San Francisco based interdisciplinary artist whose love of the natural world deeply influences his practice. Creative since he was a young child, Ross was raised in a family with three generations of artists. Born and raised in Marin County, he draws from his meditative, solitary experiences in Northern California’s forests and beaches to inform his signature approach to abstract imagery. Ross’s background in ceramic sculpture comes through in his painting style. Similarly to the way he works with clay, he paints with gestural marks that respond to the medium’s tactile qualities. Whether working on a canvas, a wall, a beach, or a sculpture, Ross allows himself to get carried away in an intuitive creative process, channeling the calm he feels while communing with nature through organic shapes.
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Leondro Lima
Leandro Lima, born in São Paulo, Brazil (1976), started producing art in the late 1990s. Since then, he has used different languages such as video, objects, technology to explore patterns, measures, structures and their variations to create highly constructed situations. In his works, natural, mathematical and artificial elements emulate organic behavior, synthesize natural phenomena and create some ambiguity, despite their apparent objectivity. It is precisely the ambivalent region between the synthetic of the natural and the natural of the synthetic that the artist navigates. His work can be found in major institutions like Inhotim (Minas Gerais, Brasil), Pinacoteca (São Paulo) and Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, and He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions.
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