Artist Spotlight: Jacoub Reyes
Jacoub Reyes is an emerging artist who has built an almost cultlike following here in Orlando. A classically trained artist who continuously crashes heads with established notions of what art and artists should be, Reyes stresses the importance of artists using their lives and creativity Read More …
Victor Quino
When hearing the term “surrealism”, most people think of melting clocks, flying fish, or animals with unnaturally long toothpick legs. The artistic style has a reputation of being weird for the sake of being weird, but there is much more to surrealism. Victor Quino is Read More …
Publisher’s Note. September
My mother immigrated to the United States on May 8, 1986 on a student visa. When it expired, she chose to remain here illegally. Her story is strikingly similar to the stories of millions of immigrants in this country. She cleaned houses, hospitals, and Read More …
Breaking Convention: Modernism Museum Mount Dora (3MD)
Tucked away between shops and restaurants in a sleepy town 30 miles north of Orlando, sits the Modernism Museum Mount Dora. Comprised of a relatively small, single-room gallery space which mimics the quaintness of the rest of Mount Dora, the Modernism Museum packs quite a Read More …
Issue Preview. Sept 2016. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Victor Quino, Julian Chambliss
Our September 2016 issue of Artborne Magazine features: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, a Bronx native who explores the concept of ‘otherness’ through her portraits. Victor Quino, a Peruvian Immigrant who copes with adversity through his surrealist paintings. And Julian Chambliss, who discusses academics, comics, and burning the Confederate flag. Subscribe to Artborne Read More …
Guava Tree in SoDo
Guava Tree Gallery presents Living Room Theater, A Burning Man installation ‘sneak preview’ of “The Dusty Supper”, and “Synedoche Pop” by Natalie DiIenno. Guava Tree Gallery. Living Room Theater. http://www.livingroomtheater.org Natalie DiIenno. http://nataliediienno.com
Fashion and Street Style
Street style–it’s a term most people are familiar with since the late and legendary Bill Cunningham brought it to the fold of the New York Times. He said, “The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.” He Read More …
Adventures in Wynwood.
If you are unfamiliar with Wynwood, it is a neighborhood in Miami, FL that is home to over 70 art galleries and even more works of public art. As the melting pot of street art, Wynwood attracts famous artists, like Shepard Fairey, and annonymous artists Read More …
Artist Spotlight: Hector Leon
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hector Leon’s family moved to the U.S. when he was 5 years old. His moody charcoals, dark pastel images, and paintings follow all of the lush and ample contours afforded to a funeral shroud. “I like the contrast of Read More …
From the Desk of Pat Greene: Fear and Loathing of Contemporary Gun Culture
Last year there were 33,636 deaths in the United States from firearms. Of those, 11,208 were murders and 21,175 were suicides. In-depth studies of gun deaths in this country have been blocked. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) was banned from researching gun violence in Read More …
