Posts by Spencer Linford

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.