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Click here to listen to a podcast of guest curators, Beto Torrens and Juan Negroni, discuss the two current art exhibits at the GC Museum.

Carry-On: Puerto Rico Inspected

Curated by Beto Torrens and Anabel Vázquez

January 30th - May 8th, 2013

We welcome to Georgia College Museum this stimulating exhibit of 35 contemporary Puerto Rican artists. Part exchange, part exposé, this curatorial collaboration was inspired and imported from the current ongoing charged art scene of the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.

In its forth incarnation, “Carry-On: Puerto Rico Inspected,” comes to the Georgia College allowing students, faculty and staff to engage with this multi-media contemporary exhibition that glimpses into the vehement beauty of the work being produced in Puerto Rico and its diasporas. First exhibited at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in Boston, MA at the beginning of fall 2011, and then in NYC at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center during the winter of 2011, and the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago, “Carry-On: Puerto Rico Inspected” has become a nomad sort of exhibit that needs to carry-on.

Capturing the individual style of the exhibiting artists, the work is both contemporary and volatile. The exhibition further explores various ideas within the insular background of the artists: such as, the portability of the physical artwork, its journey here, and self reflections, and inspections of the complex layers within social, political, and economic realities. This dynamic national-transnational collaboration aims to extend boundaries and disseminate forward contemporary arts and culture.

Artists:  Aby Ruiz, Abey Charrón, Admín Torres, Alberto Mier, Anabel Vázquez,  Aslan, Alexis Bousquet, Bobby Cruz, Beto Torrens, Bubu Negrón, Gerardo Cloquell, Elsa María Meléndez, Héctor Rafael, Iván Girona, Ismo, Jorge Rito Cordero, Jason Mena, Joelly Rodríguez, Juan Negroni, Karlo Ibarra, Lara Calo, Norma Vila Rivero, Nina Méndez Martí, Nepo, Manuel Rodríguez, Myritza Castillo, Melvin Martínez, Alexis Díaz(La Pandilla), Omar Velázquez, Omar Banuchi, Omar Obdulio, Quique Rivera Rivera, Rafa Miranda, Vincent Diaz Negron, Yolanda Velázquez, and  Zinthia Vázquez Viera.

Pie forzado.001

Curator: contemporary Puerto Rican artist Juan Albert Negroni

January 30- May 8, 2013

Pie forzado.001 is a drawing proposal inclined to impose a theme, technique and medium for all the invited artists. The intention is to force a passionate set of different ideas on the same topic to be homogenized for the conjunction of a work with the other. It aims to be the first in a circuit of exhibitions that aims to convene groups of 12 to 15 artists to evaluate and carry out works that are personal approaches on the same technique, medium and mandatory concept. The first is a selected group of multidisciplinary artists of international projection, shafts of the contemporary art practice.