Visual Arts: Concrete Illusions at The CSV Center

Concrete Illusions:

Public and Private Spaces in Puerto Rico

Exploring the urban dimensions in the Caribbean.

Co-curated by Norma Vila Rivero and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez 

José Hernández Castrodad Collection and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center cordially invite to view a cross-section of Puerto Rican contemporary art from the highly regarded José Hernández Castrodad Collection. Hernández Castrodad, a collector and an advocate for contemporary artists in Puerto Rico, exhibits part of his collection for the first time in New York City.

The exhibit presents provocative works from twenty renowned and emerging Puerto Rican artists with a focus on urban Caribbean space(s), both intimate and public. The selected works explore these spaces from multiple stances, the physical, personal, psychological and sociological. The show examines a range of issues from negligence in urban planning and the resultant overcrowding to individual and collective transformation in the Caribbean.   Some of the many buzzed about exhibiting artists include, Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, Sofía Maldonado, Karlo Andrei Ibarra and Josué Pellot.

Exhibiting artists: 

Aby Ruiz

Carlos Marcial

Edgardo Larregui

EXOR Diego Romero 

Garvin Sierra

Jesus “Bubu” Negron

José Quique Rivera

Josué Pellot

Karlo Andrei Ibarra

Michael Linares

Michelle Gratacos

Norma Vila Rivero

Omar Velázquez

Omar Torres

Radames Juni Figueroa

Raquel Quijano

Rogelio Báez

Sebastian Vallejo

Sofía Maldonado

Quintín Rivera Toro

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center Inc. is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While CSV’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

Information for Visitors:

Abrazo Interno Gallery 

CSV Cultural Center 

107 Suffolk Street at Rivington. 

Telephone: 212.260.4080