Pompano Seaside Arts presents (in) seen: pair-a-dice by Dominican-American artist Kandy G Lopez

Pompano Seaside Arts presents a visible artwork exhibition at Bailey Up to date Arts  Middle that includes unique works by Dominican-American artist Kandy G Lopez entitled (in) seen: pair-a-dice. 

The challenge goes past the standard notion of the Caribbean as a paradise and explores colorism, financial disparity, and political trauma. 

This new physique of labor options stained glass portraits of individuals of shade and introduces a up to date view of an historic approach.

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The present opens on July 14, 2023 and an artist speak and reception will happen throughout Outdated City Untapped Summer time Sizzle on Friday, August 4 at 6-10 p.m. 

“Kandy’s use of stained glass is actually exceptional,” mentioned Ty Tabing, Director, Cultural Affairs Division. “Whereas we’re all accustomed to the artwork kind, her creations deliver to gentle present cultural and social concepts that should be examined and mentioned.”

Lopez is a figurative artist who works with a number of mediums to discover and experiment with points akin to race, gentrification, immigration, and protection mechanisms.

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 As an Afro-Dominican American artist, she acknowledges that these subjects are part of her heritage and are necessary to share with others. Lopez has beforehand labored with pictures, ceramics, portray, drawing, collage, printmaking, and sculpture, however has began to concentrate on glass as a medium. Lopez’s enterprise into glass work harkens again to her educational research.

“I’ve painted on glass in grad college and used it to metaphorically describe the vulnerability of the individuals who had been erased from the floor,” mentioned Lopez. She makes use of glass as a metaphor for psychological transparency and the dearth thereof. She explores the concept that individuals of shade typically have a protection mechanism the place they “act powerful” in sure conditions as an alternative of permitting themselves to be clear.

Lopez labored on (in) seen: pair-a-dice in 2023 as part of the NACAN artist residency. Her journey to her maternal homeland, the Dominican Republic, additional developed her creative follow and allowed for deeper experimentation on glass.