Renata Cassiano Alvarez
Daniel Berman
SEÑALES DE HUMO
Catalogue design: Luiz Bicalho
Renata Cassiano Alvarez & Daniel Berman Señales de Humo Smoke Signals February 18 - March 18, 2023 Lucy Lacoste Gallery 25 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742 978-369-0278 info@lucylacoste.com
Lucy Lacoste Gallery is pleased to announce Señales de Humo (Smoke Signals) - A duo show of sculptures and paintings presented by Renata Cassiano Alvarez and Daniel Berman, long-time colleagues.
In Señales de Humo (Smoke Signals) both Cassiano Alvarez and Berman present works which draw on inspiration from their hometown of Coatepec, Veracruz in México. This small yet extramundane place is where both artists have deep roots connecting them to their respective studios and families.
The work, paintings from Berman and ceramic sculpture from Cassiano Alvarez, draws conceptual references to the act of play, Mexican craft traditions, pre-Hispanic artifacts, and their home landscape in the lush temperate forests of Veracruz. A vivid and emotional sense of color use is ever-present in the works of both artists. Collaborating with one another, but also with their chosen materials, Berman and Cassiano Alvarez both approach their work with curiosity and a wish to establish an intimate relationship with the material which leaves space for the process to speak in its own voice.
Icono VIII, 2022
Ceramic and gold
8 x 3 x 3"
Renata Cassiano Alvarez
Mexican-Italian artist Renata Cassiano Alvarez earned her MFA at the University of Mexico. She has been the longtime assistant of two renowned international artists: Nina Hole of Denmark and Gustavo Perez from Mexico. Currently she is an Artist in Residence and teaching at the University of Arkansas. Cassiano Alvarez works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for developing an intimate collaborative relationship with material and material language. Influenced by archeology and history, she is interested in the power of the object as survival - objects with a sense of permanence and timelessness, and language as transformation; specially how adopting a different language can affect the physicality of the human body, and how this translates into material. Renata’s work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, United States and Slovenia. She works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.
Río Revuelto, 2022
Ceramic and gold
10 x 6.5 x 6.5”
Ojos de Volcán, 2022
Ceramic, gold and obsidian
11 x 8 x 8"
Ceramic and gold
Icono XI, 2022
13 x 2.5 x 3”
Las Culebras, 2022
Ceramic and gold
15.5 x 3 x 3.5”
Daniel Berman
Slow dance No. 2 (doble vida), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
24h x 24w in
Born in Veracruz, México, Daniel Berman finished his Printmaking studies from the Univerisdad Veracruzana. Since 2008 Berman has been involved in projects and workshops related to drawing, printmaking, editing and painting. His work seeks to trigger reflections on the arts and communications while exploring ways of creating narratives with images, and the symbolic potentiality of visual language. Berman exhibited in Norway in 2019. The show which consolidated Berman’s search to expand his visual repertoire integrating tools and solutions from techniques that have been enriching his latest work in interesting ways. Within Berman lies a fixation on anthropomorphic figures as a receptacle to express the full range of emotions of the modern subject.
In his work, the cast of characters represented is highly varied, but there are certain beings that reappear throughout his work and adapt to different supports and scales. Though he appropriates contemporary pop figures, his work is underlyingly atavistic and primitive. Berman’s work work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections in New York, Mexico City, Tokyo, San Francisco, and London.
Slow dance No. 4
(someone is staring at me), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas 24h x 24w in
Slow dance No. 5 (Una lancha de motor), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
24h x 24w in
Slow dance No. 3 (i dont know you), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
24h x 24w in
Slow dance No. 1 (un paseo en bicicleta), 2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
24h x 24w in
RENATA CASSIANO ALVAREZ
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
BFA, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Espejos, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022 Siempre Voy a Volver, Eutectic Gallery, Portland OR
2020 Consumed by the Gospel of Uncertainty, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2011 Ensambles, Casa de Cultura, Coatepec, México
2010 Keramik udstillingen, Røde Tårn, Slagelse, Denmark
2009 Story boxes, Købmansgaard Gallery, Skælskør, Denmark
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2023 Señales de Humo, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2019 Permutations, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2016 Estratos, Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa, Xalapa, México
2010 Crossroads, Gallery Stalden, Bisserup, Denmark
2009 Keramik med Kommentar, Gallery Magasin, Skælskør, Denmark
2008 Memory Windows, Gallery Bruns Hjorne, Skælskør, Denmark
AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Honorable Mention, VI Bienal de Arte Veracruz
Delta Voices, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
2021 Artist 360 Grant, Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Walton Arts Foundation
2020 Honorable Mention, V Bienal de Arte Veracruz
2019 Zenobia Award, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 Coalescence, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
2022 Wichita National Ceramics Invitational, Reuben Sanders Gallery, Wichita, KS
VI Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Galeria de arte Contemporaneo, Xalapa, México
2022 University of Iowa Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Drewlowe/Mendieta
Galleries, Iowa City, IA
www.renatacassiano.com renatacassiano81@gmail.com
Artaxis Invitational, Longwell Museum, Neosho, MO
T. (417) 450 8250
Ceramic Art Andenne, Centre Culturel d’Andenne, Andenne, Belgium
2021 Aesthetic Group, Hang at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Calicornucopia 10, Calico Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
V Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Centro Cultural Atarazanas, Veracruz, México
Diversity in Clay, Bracker’s Good Earth Clay, Lawrence KS
Diálogos Endémicos, Proyecto Ensayo en Sitio, Xalapa, Mexico
Material Remains, Young Space Views (online)
Somos Tierra: La Pasion, Galeria Fermin, Xalapa, Mexico
Elevate, 21C Bentonville, Bentonville, AR
Texture of Color, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Calicornucopia, Calico Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Las Lenguas del Barro, Proyecto Publico PRIM, CDMX, México
V Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, México
Empowering Voices, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
Quarantine Folk, Calico Brooklin, Brooklyn, NY
Taiwan Ceramics Biennial, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei,
Taiwan
2019 NCECA Annual Exhibition, The Form Will Find Its Way: Contemporary Ceramic
Sculptural Abstraction, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Post Painted Pottery Culture, Lanzhou City University Gallery, Lanzhou, China Kohila Symposium 2018, Kohila, Estonia
Masters Exhibition, Red Hill Scout Hall, Gulgong, Australia
LAS (Latin American Status), Pittsburg Cultural Trust, Pittsburg, PA
(in)Visible, Braddock Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, PA
2017 5th International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Kecskemét Cultural and Conference Centre, Kecskemét, Hungary
Presenters Exhibition, Tolne Skov Pavillon, Tolne, Denmark
360 Degrees of Inclusion, Third Room Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Boston Young Contemporaries, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA
Conceptual Clay Hot Art, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
Taiwan Ceramics Biennial, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
360 Degrees of Separation, Purdue Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
2015 America’s Clay Fest, Blue Line Arts Coker Family Gallery, Lincoln, CA
III International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM 2015, Narodni Museum, Slovenia
Tendencias + Tradicion, Centro Cultural Atarazanas, Veracruz, México
2014 9th International Exhibition of Small Form Porcelain, Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia
2013 Selected Artist, International Ceramic Art Festival in Sasama, Japan 6a
Bienal de Cerámica Utilitaria, Museo Franz Mayer, CDMX, México Nina With
Friends, Gallery Æblehuset, Skælskør, Denmark
The Clay, Albrectsens Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gustavo Pérez Workshop, Moyshen Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, México
2012 Affordable Art Fair México, CDMX, México
2011 5a Bienal de Cerámica Utilitaria, Museo Franz Mayer, CDMX, México
Ensoñaciones de la Tierra, Galería AP, Xalapa, México
Tierra Quemada, Museo de Arte del Estado San Felipe Neri, Orizaba, México
2010 El Taller de Gustavo Pérez, Galeria Ramon Alva de la Canal, Xalapa, México
2009 Juleudstilling, Gallery Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sommerudstilling, Gallery Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Network 2008, International Ceramics Museum Grimmerhus, Middelfart, Denmark 2005 Cono 9, Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez, Habana, Cuba
DANIEL BERMAN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:
2023: Señales de Humo con Renata Cassiano Alvarex en Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2023: Participa con la galería Angulo 0 en Zona Maco, Ciudad de Mexico
2022:Participa con CAM Galería en Zona Maco, Ciudad de México
2021: Integrante del Sistema Nacional de Creadores 2021/2023, Mexico
2020: Ingreso a la colección privada del Perez Art Museum de Miami
2020: El gran sur, estados de ánimo fuera del centro, Museo internacional del barroco, Puebla.
2019: “Umbra” New prints for a Dark age in The International Print Centre
New York, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2018: “Friends friend”, Ikeda Art Museum, Minamiuonuma, Japon
2015: Becario del programa Jovenes Creadores del FONCA (2015/2016) 2013: ¨Comale¨ exposición colectiva en la galeria Vertigo, Mexico, D.F.
2011: “Multiplied” Contemporary Editions Fair, Christie´s, Londres, UK.
2011: “Viceversa” Exposición colectiva en el MUPO (Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños) de la ciudad de Oaxaca, Mex.
2010: Incluyen su trabajo en el libro “Street Sketchbook, Journey´s” de Tristan
Manco editado por Thames and Hudson de Londres
2010: “Real Life Issues” Angel Orenzans Foundation, NYC
2010: “Multiplied” Contemporary Editions Fair, Christie´s, Londres, UK.
2010: “3” Pure Evil Gallery, Londres, Uk. y Los Angeles
2010: “Las Calles Electricas” exposción colectiva, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2009: “The Fiesta Resistance” Exposición colectiva en la Galería Picture son Walls, Londres, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023: “Nudos y piedras”, exposición individual en Galería Gotxikoa, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León
2022: “Nudos y piedras”, exposición individual en la Galería de arte contemporáneo de Xalapa, ver.
2022: “Lotus & drums”, contorsiones y borborigmos, exposición individual en CAM Galería. CDMX
2021: “Llévame al río”, exposición individual en Loot Gallery, Cdmx, Mx.
2021: “Echale lumbre”, exposición individual en Matamoros 404, Oaxaca,Oax.
2021: “Toma todo”, exposición individual en Galeria Gotxikoa, Monterrey,N.L.
2020: ”La sombra no tiene dueño”, exposición en Galería CAM, CDMX
2019: “Carne de monte”, exposición individual en Grape arquitechts, Oslo, Noruega
2019: ”El paso doble”, exposición individual Galería del IMJUS, CDMX
2018: “Río revuelto”, exposición individual en Galería de arte de Jardines de Mexico
2017: “Entropías del humor”, exposicón individual en la Galería OMO, Morelia Michoacan.
2016: La Chaca me miraba y yo coqueteaba con ella, exposición individual en Galeria Arte Cocodrilo, CDMX
2015: Hoyo Negro , exposición individual en Vertigo, Galería. México D.F.
2014: “Llamadas por cobrar”, exposición individual en Galería La Plataforma, Barcelona, Esp.
2011: “Hombre en posición de Listo” Exposición individual en la Galería
Cuarto Contemporáneo de Oaxca, Mex
2010: “Hay cuchillos bajo la almohada” Exposici’on individual en la Galeria Vertigo, Mexico, D.F.
