ARMANDO MARIÑO @ The 8th Floor

   Happy Protester, 2012

Armando Mariño: Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester

The 8th Floor is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in New York of Cuban-¬‐born artist, Armando Mariño, entitled Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester. This exhibition features over twenty new paintings and works on paper, including a 13-‐foot diptych among other large-scale paintings. 

For this solo exhibition, Armando Mariño employs an expanded visual vocabulary that departs from his former style, to depict the global upheaval of 2011. Dynamic, anonymous figures engaged in acts that reference real footage are placed in rich, fluorescent and abstracted backdrops. Faces, obscured by either masks or the painter’s hand, correspond to Marino’s sublimation of the source material.
 

Recipient of the 2011-12 Pollock Krasner Foundation award, Armando Mariño was born in Santiago de Cuba and educated in Havana and Amsterdam. He has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe in museums and galleries, including the Mattress Factory, El Museo del Barrio, Katonah Art Museum, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art among others. His work is held globally in numerous public and private collections. This is his first solo exhibition in New York. He recently relocated to New York, where he lives and works.

An essay by noted art critic and historian, Elvia Rosa Castro titled The Exiled Evidence (El Destierro de la Evidencia) will accompany the exhibition. There will be an opening reception—RSVP only—on May 2nd from 6-­‐8 pm. To RSVP, please contact anna@the8thfloor.org. For more information and image requests, please contact Anna Gonick, (646) 839-­‐5908 or by email at anna@the8thfloor.org. 

May 2nd ‐ June 22nd, 2012
The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th St. New York, New York
Open Weekdays 11-­‐6 pm and Tuesdays 12-­‐7 pm

 Untitled, 2012