Natalie Sandstrom visits Wexler Gallery to review a collaborative exhibition featuring new works by artists Roberto Lugo and Mat Tomezsko.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs visits The Walters Art Museum Baltimore and reviews “Roberto Lugo at 1 West.”
Read MoreThe small group exhibit, Jarring, creates a contemplative space to memorialize victims of racial hate crimes and to remember our shared humanity. Like great monuments in the public realm the works in this exhibition are accessible to all and valuable as history-telling by artists who care about what history is told.
Read MoreLoads of events and opportunities for you in today’s news post. Congratulations to Roberto Lugo for joining the faculty of Tyler School of Art, and to JSTN CLMN for having a piece of work included in the Occupy Museums installations at the Whitney Biennial. Opportunities with deadlines coming up for artist submissions to Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Delaware Contemporary, 40th St Artist in Residence program, and Eastern State Penitentiary. Celebration of Black Arts Festival kicks off on May 1, and talk on immigration at the Da Vinci Art Alliance on May 10. Artblog toots its own horn about an upcoming May 5 tour of Callowhill and the “Vox” building with Hidden City, plus performances by Tania Bruguera and Ayana Evans, and RIP performance art legend Vito Acconci.
Read More“I didn’t see my life going anywhere,” said Lugo, who grew up in a series of burned out and damaged homes that his father—a Pentecostal preacher, factory worker, and occasional vendor—was repairing.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta interviewed activist ceramic artist Roberto Lugo in 2013. The podcast is 17 minutes long and in it the artist explains his life journey from grafitti artist in Kensington to graduate of Penn State’s art program. It’s a great interview.
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