#robertolugo

[letmypeopleshow]

Artists & their work in Miami: 1. Roberto Lugo at the Wolfsonian 2. Renée Cox at Sibyls Shrine at Prizm Art Fair. 3. Friends with You at Art Basel Miami. 4. Larry Li at Residency Art Gallery at Art Basel 5. Leandro Erlich at the Pérez Art Museum. 6. Sofía Maldonado at Galería Petrus at Pinta Art Fair. 7. Zoe Buckman at Pippy Houldsworth at ABMB. 8. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Superblue

[artsology]

“Brooklyn Century Vase,” 2019, by Roberto Lugo, made of porcelain and china paint, with details showing images of Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z. #porcelain #vase #jayz #biggiesmalls #hiphopicons #homage #rappers #brooklyn #brooklynsbest #brooklynmuseum #robertolugo #pottery (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChluJolsTVs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[boxblur--ccg]

More images from “This Present Moment” @smithsonian @renwickgallery @wxzhang25 @sysclark @aplaceintheuniverse @leo_villareal #robertolugo #arthurcarpenter @bisabutler #thomasjacksonmd #kathleengrantmd #artsandcrafts #highconcepthighcraft #artinournationscapitol (at Renwick Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdgzBAzPa98/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fairfielduam]

Direct from the Director - Fall 2021

Dear Friend,   As I write this we prepare to reopen our galleries to the public after almost 17 months of closure to external visitors. While we enjoyed the visits of students, faculty and staff last year, we missed seeing our friends from the community. We are so pleased to be able to finally welcome you all back. 

This fall we are presenting three exhibitions simultaneously – all focusing on issues of Black history, racial justice, and police reform in America.  They open on September 18th and run for the entire semester, which we hope will give you ample time to come and visit us, and to once again experience the power of art together in-person.  

Carrie Mae Weems, All the Boys (Profile 1), 2016, archival pigment print on gesso board. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects, on view in the museum’s Walsh Gallery, will include recent photographic and video works that aim to pose the question about stereotypes that associate Black bodies with criminality. All the Boys and The Usual Suspects delve deeper into that topic with Black men and women as the focal point, forcing the view to confront the fact of judicial inaction in the face of systemic racism. People of a Darker Hue, a 14-minute film which will be screened in the gallery, is a meditative compilation of video, found footage, narration, and performance commemorating the deaths of George Floyd, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor and, sadly, numerous others. Ebony magazine’s Kevin L. Clark has written: “With Black America in a heightened state of awareness, given the calamity that has been caused by state-sanctioned brutality, the COVID-19 crisis, and more—the Fairfield University Art Museum will host a fall exhibition that you cannot afford to miss.”

Roberto Lugo, Peaceful Protesters: Nina Simone I and Texture Study II, 2021, glazed ceramic, luster, steel, epoxy, enamel. Courtesy of the artist and Wexler Gallery. Photography by Megan Tranauskas courtesy of Wexler Gallery

Roberto Lugo: New Work and Robert Gerhardt: Mic Check will be on view together in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries. Self-described “ghetto potter” Roberto Lugo’s work takes familiar shapes drawn from European and Asian ceramic traditions, including ginger jars, amphorae, and teapots, but their hand-painted surfaces take inspiration from street art and feature contemporary iconography, including celebrations of Black and Latino figures. A number of the pieces in this exhibition, which features all-new work, also incorporate gun parts from decommissioned handguns obtained in a Hartford, Connecticut gun buyback in 2018 sponsored by #UNLOAD Foundation.

Robert Gerhardt, Protestors Raise Their Fists at the Start of a Protest for Jacob Blake, Times Square, New York City, August 24, 2020, 2020, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist

Mic Check is a photography project by photojournalist and writer Robert Gerhardt, who relied on the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to track and document these protests in New York City from 2014 through 2021. This remarkable body of work includes photographs of protests across New York, in massive crowds, in rain and sun, during night and day, in motion during marches and stationary during speeches, and in the past year in the midst of a global pandemic. These candid works capture the passion, righteous anger, and frustration of the protestors. The title comes from the shouts of “mic check!” which mobilized protestors into a game of repeat-after-me, a technique that united the crowd and enabled the spread of the speaker’s comments and instructions without amplification.

BLACK ART FUND UPDATE

In February 2021 the museum started a fund solely dedicated to the acquisition of museum-quality contemporary art by Black artists for the permanent collection. We continue to actively seeking financial contributions and donations of artwork by Black artists. 

The original goal was to raise $40,000 (which the museum will match with $20,000) by the end of this month, and to date we have raised $20,125.  

The first fund purchase was made in July, and is Cardboard Slave Kit, Abolitionist Blend DIY by artist Roberto Visani (image above). It finds inspiration in the kneeling male figure in chains from Wedgewood's 18th-century anti-slavery medallion and seal "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"

The museum was gifted a fine example of the Wedgwood seal (image above) by Connecticut collectors Ben Ortiz and Victor Torchia Jr. earlier this year, and jumped at the opportunity to acquire a work by a Black contemporary artist responding to this very image.

Fairfield University students in this fall’s African American Art History class will play an active role in helping the museum make further selections for the collection. If you want to help us to continue to diversify our collections please click here to donate! If you have museum-quality art by Black artists that you would like to donate, please contact me at cweber@fairfield.edu.

I hope you will join us in the months ahead to experience our exciting fall exhibitions (either in person or virtually, and to participate in the array of upcoming virtual programs including lectures, Art in Focus discussions with Michelle DiMarzo, art workshops with Kate Wellen, Family Day programs, or Mindfulness and Meditation sessions with Jackie DeLise. Our fall slogan is “the art is live…the programs are virtual.” The museum is free and open to all, and you can register for all of our events at Eventbrite. Remember if you miss an event, they are all recorded, so you can enjoy it after the fact, at your leisure, on our YouTube channel.

Thank you for your continued support of the Fairfield University Art Museum. Please stay safe, be well, and I hope to see you in the galleries.

With warm regards, Carey

Carey Mack Weber

[marcsylla]

[duvalart]

Renee Green and Roberto Lugo employ traditional European forms of decoration to add the stories of African Americans to to the canon, elevating their works to high art in the act. Brilliant of Green to interrupt the fairy tale scenes of toile with pictures of the brutal torture of the slaves used to pick the very cotton the scenes are printed on. Lugo’s works are gentler on white privilege but accomplish a lot by leaving no medium left out of a much needed balancing of representation. #artbasel #wexlergallery #robertolugo #reneegreen #fabricworkshopandmuseum Renee Green’s work can be seen now through April 18th at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Roberto Lugo can be found in the Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia. Green’s work is Mise en Scene, 1992 and Lugo’s is Big Pun and I, 2015. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLHj6gCDqmH/?igshid=1dv3bdiko8r6f

[budaallmusic]

Conjunto Constanza ‎– Conjunto Constanza #SalsaInternacional 1981 🇺🇸 US Arranged By, Piano, Directed By – #CharlieLopez Arranged By, Trombone – #PedroOcasio Bass [Bajo] – #OrlandoFelix Congas – #ArcadioMantilla Coro – #CharlieLopez (tracks: A1, A3), #JohnnyKenton, #LuisPericoOrtiz, #RamonRodriguez (tracks: A1, A3), #RobertoLugo Lead Vocals – #RafaelRamos Maracas – #SantiagoCeron Photography By – #RolandoSoler Timbales – #MikeCollazo Tres – #CharlieRodriguez Trombone – #NelsonMoreno, #RafaelGuzman https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4Yn-VM4R4/?igshid=1pcq5t4juhlla

[wexlergallery]

Snag a copy or go online to read the full article @ceramics_monthly wrote about esteemed artist @robertolugostudio ! #robertolugo #ceramicsmonthly #wexlergallery Repost from @robertolugostudio using @RepostRegramApp - Get your copy of the September ceramics monthly. Thank you to Glen Brown and the crew at CM for this great feature. #robertolugo #mlk #martinlutherking #ceramics #ceramicsmonthly #glenbrown #craft #teapot #pottery

[christianbaileyceramics]

I may not have been able to make it to @nceca but I am now the proud owner of a @thismachinekillshate #redfox #cup. #ceramics #pottery #robertolugo #nceca #happyday.

[starlynbenitez]

#14deFebrero #2020 Te Gusta la Salsa Romántica? Compra tu entrada ya. Y disfruta de una velada salsera junto a tu pareja. #Houston #Texas #Salsa #RobertoLugo #StarlynBenitez #SanValentin #SanValentineDays Friday, Feb 14, 2020 - Doors: 9:00pm Brenda's Reception Hall 13900 BEECHNUT STREET HOUSTON, TEXAS 77083 https://www.tickeri.com/events/5ddb2edc86b41f0004825e61/roberto-lugo-valentine-s-day (en Brendas Reception Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B76szHTAlJZ/?igshid=392jechr6gjx

[morenasnegrassalsaluvier]

Clip Instagram Tumblr #robertolugo https://www.instagram.com/p/ByipiOND_AA/?igshid=kenstkmbie9i

[jmcdonald97]

2. This is Roberto Lugo. He is one of my favorite artists. He is an American potter. When making his ceramic pieces he incorporates hip-hop, history, and social problems around the world. Some may say some of his work is like putting graffiti onto a ceramic work. I say his work is “beautiful”. 

[mixterkoji]

Atención #CaliCo. Boletas disponible para #RobertoLugo en el #AcuaparqueDeLaCaña HOY!!!. Info con @crismis07

[ptyderumba-blog]

Iniciando #RobertoLugo su show en #CiudadDePanama desde @latitude47_pty

[danielnewmanart-blog]

#robertolugo #penlandschoolofcrafts

[houseof1000fabrics]

Detail of #robertolugo new XXL vessel. @wexlergallery @collectivedf @nycxdesign #thismachinekillshate #collectivedesign2017 (at Collective Design)