Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
September 24 – December 4, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online
HOURS: Monday-Friday 10am – 5pm; Thursday 10am–8pm; Saturday 1-4pm; Closed Sundays and USF Holidays (November 11, 25, 26, 27). Visitors to the museum are expected to wear masks and practice social distancing.
Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and the Diaspora will gather, display, record, and conceptualize artistic responses to Hurricane Maria by artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Through artworks and their narratives and socially engaged initiatives, voices from the island and Puerto Rican communities in New York and Florida will materialize a synoptic view of Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery as part of an evolving, 121-year-old historical crisis.
Participating artists include: Rogelio Báez Vega, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Jorge González Santos, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Ivelisse Jiménez, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Miguel Luciano, SkittLeZ-Ortiz, Angel Otero, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Gabriel Ramos, Jezabeth Roca González, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Yiyo Tirado Rivera.
Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator at Large, and Noel Smith, Former Deputy Director and Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art: organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum
ONLINE EXHIBITION
Exhibition Home // Curatorial Essay | Ensayo Curatorial // Acknowledgements and Foreword | Agradecimientos y Prólogo // Rogelio Báez Vega (EN) | Rogelio Báez Vega (ES) // Jorge González Santos (EN) | Jorge González Santos (ES) // Karlo Andrei Ibarra (EN) | Karlo Andrei Ibarra (ES) // Ivelisse Jiménez (EN) | Ivelisse Jiménez (ES) // Miguel Luciano (EN) | Miguel Luciano (ES) // Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Sofía Gallisá Muriente (EN) | Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Sofía Gallisá Muriente (ES) // Angel Otero (EN) | Angel Otero (ES) // Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (EN) | Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (ES) // Gabriel Ramos (EN) | Gabriel Ramos (ES) // Jezabeth Roca González (EN) | Jezabeth Roca González (ES) // Gamaliel Rodríguez (EN) | Gamaliel Rodríguez (ES) // Yiyo Tirado Rivera (EN) | Yiyo Tirado Rivera (ES)
Ivelisse Jiménez
Ivelisse Jiménez started working on Gelid Flow #3 and Gelid Flow #4 right after Hurricane Maria altered Puerto Rico's landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. In these pieces she traps enamel paint within sheets of vinyl plastic that she then exposes to the elements to provoke decay and, hopefully, questions about humans’ interactions with nature. She hangs these sheets vertically next to the museum window to allow daylight to reveal additional patterns. The paintings act like a stained-glass window, or a prism, while inviting meditations on the limitations of human understanding. According to the artist her work presents "a way of exploring the complex relations between consciousness and experience, a way to work through the complexities around me and to communicate a sense of fluidity and impermanence."
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ivelisse Jiménez (Ciales, Puerto Rico, 1966)
Lives and works in San Juan and New York.
Ivelisse Jiménez is a painter and installation artist. Her work has been shown at the Casa de Los Contrafuertes (San Juan, PR); the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (San Juan); University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Galeria Jacob Karpio (Bogotá, Colombia); and the Lehman College Art Gallery (The Bronx, NY). Jiménez is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Award for painters and sculptors, a Gottlieb Foundation grant, and was artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, Michigan) and MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA).
Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and supported by the Tampa Bay Rays and the Tampa Bay Rowdies. The symposium Bregando with Disasters: Post Hurricane Maria Realities and Resiliencies is supported by a Humanities Centers Grant from Florida Humanities. The USF Contemporary Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
