Wild Hearts by Monica Ruzansky

On view at Aperture’s Gallery and Bookstore coinciding with the season premiere exhibition Paul Strand in Mexico is Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices and Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection, a collaboration with En Foco, curated by Executive Director Miriam Romais. En Foco a non-profit organization that supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures—primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African, and Asian heritage, as well as Native peoples of the Americas and Pacific.

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices explores—via the work of photographers  Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzón, and Monica Ruzansky how life and culture are enmeshed.  Selections from En Foco’s Permanent Collection can be found in the adjacent room and includes works by Graciela Iturbide, Mariana Yampolsky, Pedro Meyer, Don Gregorio Antón, Delilah Montoya, Rojelio Reyes Rodriguez, Lisdebertus aka Luis Delgado-Qualtrough, and Dean Dempsey. This selection encompasses the past four decades of work created by Chicano, Mexican-American, and Mexican artists. Inspired by a larger, forthcoming traveling exhibition of the En Foco Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, this work highlights a complex photographic history that is largely absent from surveys of the field.

This September 25th, En Foco’s will host their annual Portfolio Review. The event’s reviewers include a diverse range of leading arts professionals including Aperture Book’s editor Lesley A. Martin! Click here for pre-registration information and a full list of reviewers.

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices
in conjunction with Paul Strand in Mexico
Opening reception: Thursday, September 16, 6:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 21 2010

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

Mexico + Afuera: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices

Click here for more information about the upcoming Paul Strand in Mexico exhibition

Click here for more information about En Foco’s Programming

Widely acclaimed artists Collier Schorr and Roe Etheridge, founders of Primary Information James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff will be featured on a panel this Wednesday to discuss and consider the future of the photograph in print, moderated by  artist, critic and founding editor of Influence Magazine, Gil blank .

The panel, entitled Open Cover Before Striking, Confounding Expectations is presented by Aperture, the photography department in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School. The question posed to the event’s participants will be: As print faces the encroachment of digital technology and the mainstreaming of online culture, what is the viability of printed and published forms of photography – monographic, serial, underground or otherwise – as a means of photographic production?

Open Cover Before Striking, Confounding Expectations Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 8, 7:00 PM

FREE

The New School
Tischman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York