Kenny Rivero: Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers
The Armory Show 2021
Charles Moffett Gallery
Section: Solo
Booth: S9
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Building upon Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012)’s institutional representation in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Pérez Art Museum—and coinciding with his solo exhibition currently on view at the Momentary at Crystal Bridges—Charles Moffett is pleased to bring Kenny Rivero’s debut museum solo show (March-June 2021 at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center) to The Armory Show.
The works on view feature heavily personal narrative drawings atop paper-based memorabilia that Rivero intercepted from the trash, mostly while working as a doorman for eight years in a luxury, prewar residential building he describes as “epitomizing the wealthy subculture of ‘Old New York.’”
Narratively, explains Rivero, “the works in this body of drawings point directly to death, violence, fear, faith, spirituality, war, and magic. The setting is an abstracted landscape informed by the people, architecture, culture and aesthetics of Washington Heights in New York (more broadly, the culture of uptown and the Bronx) and the Dominican Republic (more specifically, Santiago and the Cibáo). The work is autobiographical, and I’m invested in building a knowledge of self as it relates to a variety of areas.”
More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view, as well as install shots of the show’s museum iteration and a selection of studio shots, is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to Charles Moffett, unless otherwise noted in the file title.
