Multimedia artist Richard Garet of Uruguay and painter Venuz White of Colombia explore the limits of their media --video and poured acrylic paint, respectively-- to depict visionary worlds of heightened color and light and of ambiguously scaled natural form. Garet's Time Frame digital prints go beyond the idea of photographing manufactured imagery or setups; they capture imagery that is completely illusive or virtual: the radiantly colored geometric imagery from the artist's hypnotically kinetic abstract films. Garet selects frames from the sequence suggestive of change and progression within stasis and edits ands retouches them in the computer. The finished images, mounted... Read More

Leonardo Pineda is a young Colombian artist whose vibrant color and vigorous rendering attract immediate attention. "Por Fuera," from outside, or from abroad, aptly describes Pineda's painterly interpretation of contemporary life in Bogota--which may strike US viewers as not so different from the North American urban landscape. The increasing pace of urban life with its concomitant exciting (but sometimes overwhelming) rush of images has been one of the motive factors behind modern art. Picasso spoke of having to paint out the green in his system after walking in the woods, while others have described art as the pearl laboriously secreted... Read More