SEÑALES DE HUMO: CASSIANO ALVAREZ AND BERMAN

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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.

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