Wednesday, July 13 to September 25, 2016
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10456
Caza: Rochele Gomez, Margaret Lee, Alejandra Seeber is part of The Neighbors, a series of three small-scale, successive exhibitions of contemporary art organized by guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy for The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
What would it mean to tame art? And, to what or for who would this taming of art serve? The group exhibition Caza—a word that in Spanish means searching or hunting, and is a homonym to the word home—is an attempt to respond to such questions.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rochele Gomez (b. 1980, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. In 2014, she received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and in 2006 a BFA from California State University, Long Beach. Last year, she had a solo exhibition at LAXART Fireplace and Its Mirror curated by Daniel Joseph Martinez. Other recent exhibitions include: Out at the Elbows at Metro PCS in Los Angeles, CA (2014); Ideal Territory at Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2014); and Saucy Leechcraft at JB Jurve in Los Angeles, CA (2012). She is a recipient of the American Austrian Foundation/ Seebacher Prize (2014), which allowed her to travel to Europe and study at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. Artist’s website: rochelegomez.blogspot.com
Margaret Lee (b. 1980, Bronx) lives and works in New York City. This year, she participates with a solo exhibition as part of the Concentration series organized by the Dallas Museum of Art at Duddell’s in Hong Kong. In 2014, the artist’s solo exhibition closer to wrong than right/ closer to right than wrong was presented at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. Recently, Lee participated in NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection (2105) at The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, All Watched Over (2015) curated by Tina Kukielski at James Cohan Gallery, New York, and New Pictures of Common Objects (2012) curated by Christopher Lew at MoMA PS1, New York. The artist participated in the 2014 Hammer Museum biennial, Made in L.A. and in the 2013 Biennale de Lyon. In 2009, Lee founded the artist-run space 179 Canal and is currently a partner in the gallery 47 Canal. Artist’s website: www.margaret-lee.com
Alejandra Seeber (b. 1969, Buenos Aires) lives in New York City since 1999. She studied at Prilidiano Pueyrreón School of Fine Arts in Argentina, and participated in the Beca Kuitca Studio Program in Buenos Aires and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. In 2010, she had solo exhibition at Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires, and has had solo exhibitions at, among other galleries, Sperone Westwater in New York, Hausler Contemporary in Munich and Zurich, and, most recently, at Barro in Buenos Aires. Her work was featured in the 7th Bienal do Merocsul (2009) in Porto Alegre and in S-files (2003) at El Museo del Barrio in New York. It has been part of numerous group exhibitions locally internationally, at venues like the Kunst Museum of Saint Gallen in Switzerland, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, as well as the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). Artist’s website: www.alejandraseeber.com
For more information visit: http://www.bronxmuseum.org