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Learn more about Empire by Robert Cottingham, a serigraph of the historically significant Empire Theater where Rosa Parks sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Nathan Budoff's first showcase with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art explores the relationships between flora, fauna, and space. Read statements about the showcase from Budoff and gallery communications director Spencer Linford. Budoff's showcase is on view at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art through 31 August 2024.

Nathan Budoff is a Puerto Rico-based painter, muralist, and printmaker from Massachusetts whose artworks frame the relationships between flora, fauna, and space in unexpected ways. His artist statement delves into the ethos behind his most recent body of work.

Recognized today as one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) began his artistic career as an outcast. Tamayo's contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros ostracized Tamayo for his apolitical stance and preoccupation with aesthetics. But social isolation failed to deter Tamayo from his pursuit of developing a fundamental, universal, and distinctly Mexican visual aesthetic.

Enrique Figueredo is a Venezuelan-American artist whose work examines globalization, immigration, economics, and religion through the patterns, designs, motifs, and symbols associated with ancient civilizations, the colonization of the Americas, and mythology. Drawing on the disconnect between personal experience and established historical narratives, Figueredo cultivates a figurative space where communities may freely engage with history. His newest kinetic sculpture Viajes de la Gran Flota Blanca (Voyages of the Great White Fleet) 1899-  is an inquiry into the induction and visualization of circular time, the repetitions of history, and the mixing of the past, present, and future.

 

 

“That’s the thing about printmakers,” Kylee Aragon says. “They’re never satisfied. There’s this constant push to make a print that isn’t like your last.”