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17/5/2003

Puerto Rican Light

The Americas Society, New York

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

Puerto Rican Light is the first major, solo exhibition of artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Allora & Calzadilla have been working together since 1995, living part of the year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Their work includes drawing installations, digital photography, and sculptural works. A number of the projects they initiate unfold as group collaborations.

Puerto Rican Light presents three works by Allora & Calzadilla: the installation Traffic Patterns (2001-2003), consisting of a drop ceiling and a unique lighting system that synchronizes the illumination in the gallery space to a traffic light in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico; a photograph from Seeing Otherwise (1999-2003), their photographic series of uncanny sunsets taken mainly on the shoreline of Puerto Rico; and Puerto Rican Light (2003), a project consisting of storing solar energy in Puerto Rico that will provide the proper voltage for lighting Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake), a 1965 sculpture by artist Dan Flavin. Chalk Monuments, a public art project by Allora & Calzadilla organized in conjunction with the exhibition, will take place in three New York City schools during May-June 2003.

Puerto Rican Light will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication including contributions by the artists; Dean Daderko (independent curator, Brooklyn); Jane Farver (Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge); Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, exhibition curator; Olukemi Ilesanmi (Assistant Curator, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); Yates McKee (writer, New York); and Yasmin Ramirez (art historian, New York). -1:0:1, an innovative collective of designers based in Monterrey, Mexico, has been commissioned to design this publication. The publication will be available in August 2003.

Puerto Rican Light is made possible through the generous support of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Moisés and Diana Berezdivin. Additional support was provided to the artists through the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Chalk Monuments is made possible through The Fund For Creative Communities, administered by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program.

The Americas Society wishes to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for their cooperation and support in the realization of this project: Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York; Jed Ela; Michelle Marxuach and M&M Proyectos, San Juan; Museo de Arte Contempóraneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Jennifer Spence; and Washington Heights-Inwood Coalition, New York.

The opening reception is sponsored by Rums of Puerto Rico.

The Americas Society is located on 680 Park Avenue at 68th Street, New York, NY 10021. For additional information about the exhibition, publication, or related programs, please contact us at (212) 277-8361, fax (212) 249-5868, or email: exhibitions@as-coa.org.

Founded in 1965, The Americas Society is a unique not-for-profit institution with a mission to promote a better understanding in the United States about the cultures and societies of Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 18, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Exhibition Dates: May 18-July 20, 2003

Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12:00-6:00 p.m.

Admission Free

Directions by Subway: Train #6 to 68th Street/Hunter College; by Bus, take the M2, M3, M4, M66 to Madison Avenue and 68th Street.

The Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10021
T. 212.249.8950
F. 212.249.5868

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