Location 11am EST: Anna Zorina Gallery - 532 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011
Join us for a morning with emerging NYC artist Larissa De Jesús Negrón and curator Andrea Sofía R. Matos
Coffee will be provided :)
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Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a New York-based artist from Puerto Rico who is booking multiple solo shows at prominent international galleries year after year. We are here to dive into what it takes to make it in the gallery world - why a gallery would want to work with you, how to connect with them and how to build yourself in a way that attract’s those who you want to work with.
Larissa is a multidisciplinary artist who is interested in processing her childhood and adult trauma through the essential power of storytelling. Her practice is centered around authentic expression and deep introspection. Exploring and experimenting with materials keeps her interested, not only in what she’s creating but it brings her focus to the how, rather than the why.. Her stylistically varied but mostly neo-surreal imagery is linked to the artist’s curiosity of the subconscious mind and psychoanalysis. Hence the subtle referencing of surrealist artists such as Magritte, David Salle, Louise Bourgeois, Dalí.
Andrea Sofía R. Matos is a curator and photographer, born and raised in Puerto Rico. She’s completing her MA at NYU Steinhardt’s Visual Art Administration graduate program in New York City. Andrea Sofía graduated summa cum laude from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Art History with a minor in Photography; she also holds an Associate in Fine Art Photography from Miami Dade College. Her curatorial practice focuses on the art and culture of the Caribbean, Latin America, Latinx, and their diaspora. Andrea has worked in various art and cultural institutions like Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, MECA Art Fair, Prizm Art Fair, LnS Gallery, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, The Margulies Collection and Women Photographer’s International Archive (WOPHA), Locust Projects and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her experience in New York, Miami, and Puerto Rico has developed her visual literacy and exposed her to the contemporary art scene.