The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology presents Looking for a Hero, or Whips, Whims, and Wigs, and Gio Ponti is Just an Excuse, a solo exhibition by Venezuelan-born Houston artist Gerardo Rosales.
From artist Gerardo Rosales: “Looking for a Hero… opens a dialogue about problems related to domestic labor and immigration. The focus of investigation is centered around my memories of growing up in Venezuela. However, as an adult, and living in the USA for 19 years, has allowed me to see that this problem exists here and worldwide. Through this body of work, I infiltrate these issues of social inequalities by appropriating the ornamental aspects associated with folk art and geometric abstraction.”
Above: Pontricalisimo, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
