March 2nd, 2015 6-9 PM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue at 115th Street, NY, NY 10029
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Last exhibition opening of the year at the Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio! December 1st 6 PM-9 PM! Join us as we present two photography collections in one exhibition.
RESPECT THE SHOOTER by Jon Lopez and EXHIBIT A by Alex Woodhouse
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
Exhibition Opening: December 1st 6 PM-9 PM
Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love Spins vinyl from 9 PM-1 AM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Ave (115 St)
New York, NY 10029
Directions: 6 train to 116th St. Walk East towards First Avenue. Make right on 116th St and First Avenue.
Join us this Wendesday (11.12. 2014 6-9 PM) to honor Puerto Rico’s historic first wave of Aerosol Writing Artists. 1985 and beyond!
ROM . SOZE . SKE
MASTERS AT DESTRUCTION
CURATED BY: FERNANDO RUÍZ LORENZO
NOVEMBER 12-30, 2014
OPENING: Wednesday, 11.12.14 6-9 PM
G Bo The Pro spinning from 9 PM-1 AM
E M P E R I A L G A L L E R Y
C A M A R A D A S E L B A R R I O
2241 FIRST AVE (115TH ST) 10029
“A LA LETRA”
New Works by COCO 144 and Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
June 2-July 4th, 2014
Exhibition Opening and Mural Unveiling: Sunday, June 8th, 2014 6-10 PM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 1st Ave, New York, NY 10029
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
IG @coco144 @estudioruizlorenzo
ART IS OUR EMBASSY | ARTE ES NUESTRA EMBAJADA 2014
New feature on Street Art NYC covering the collaborative mural and exhibition “A La Letra” by COCO 144 and Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo for the freedom of political prisoner Oscar López Rivera at Camaradas El Barrio. Thank you and our hope is that our President Barack Obama @whitehouseofficial, Vice President Joe Biden @vp First Lady Michelle Obama @michelleobama free #OscarLópezRivera from his 33 years of incarceration as a political prisoner in the United States of America. #COCO144 #FernandoRuízLorenzo #FreeOscarLópezRivera #CamaradasElBarrio #EmperialGallery
A LA LETRA, an exhibit featuring new works by COCO144 and Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo, will open on Sunday, June 8, 6-10 pm at Camaradas El Barrio‘s Emperial Gallery. The artists’ new mural honoring Oscar López Rivera will be officially unveiled at the opening.
E M P E R I A L G A L L E R Y
C a m a r a d a s E L B a r r i o
Presents:
Katie Ruiz
“Perceptions”
EXHIBITION OPENING: March 3rd 6-9 PM
Emperial Gallery
Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St)
EL Barrio, Nueva York 10029
Kathleen Ruiz is a Chicana artist who resides in New York City. She was raised in Northern Arizona and Southern California. She loved growing up in the mountains and spent much of her time in nature. Her work is a reflection of the life she has lived and the people she cherishes. She loves to use colors, figures, and symbols to tell stories of her understanding of the world.
She has traveled to over twenty countries around the world and has a passion for cultures and helping people. She lived in Botswana, Africa and worked a Refugee camp and helped build a library and taught art. Later she lived in Guanajuato, Mexico and studied Fine Art at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Ms. Ruiz has always had talent in painting and drawing. She has a Bachelors Degree of Fine Art with a painting Emphasis from Northern Arizona University. She is currently working towards her Masters of Fine Art at the NY Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture.
Emperial ★ Gallery presents:
Suhaly Bautista (The Earth Warrior) “A Ribbon Around A Bomb”
Exhibition Opening: January 6th, 2014 6 -9 PM
Bobbito Garcia spins First Monday’s from 9 PM-1 AM
Emperial ★ Gallery
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St) 10029
New Yorker by birth & Dominican by bloodline, Suhaly Bautista, otherwise known as, “The Earth Warrior,” is a photographer, world traveler and arts educator. In 2008, she graduated from NYU with a B.A. in English and American Literature and received her MPA from the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU in 2011, where she specialized in sustainable international development. Suhaly began her global escapades while living and working in Italy and Ghana and has served as an educator, activist and artist throughout Latin America. As a Graduate Resident Advisor and Global Ambassador at NYU, Suhaly coordinated service learning trips to New Orleans focused on sustainably rebuilding Katrina-devastated neighborhoods and was named one of “NYU’s 15 Most Influential Students,” for promoting art, diversity and social justice in her work. In 2011, Suhaly moved to Paraguay and started a 35mm film photography arts education project for youth called, Somos el Presente.Suhaly is the Project Coordinator for the “Culture of Creativity,” a visual art movement promoting and documenting unique, creative and revolutionary lifestyles. She is also a Cru member of FOKUS (Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success), an arts advocacy organization designed to educate, empower and unite communities through the arts. Her photographic documents have been featured in FOKUS’ Insight Magazine.
Suhaly is currently the Social Justice Coordinator at the YWCA and is living, loving and working in New York City.
M. TONY PERALTA
“DOÑA CON ROLOS”
CURATED BY: FERNANDO RUÍZ LORENZO
GALERÍA EMPERIAL
NOVEMBER 4-25th
EXHIBITION OPENING: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, 6-9 PM
BOBBITO GARCIA SPINS 9 PM-1 AM
Photographic Source: © Iñaki Vinaixa
CAMARADAS EL BARRIO
2241 First Avenue (115 St)
Nueva York, 10029
“LA REUNIÓN”
Photographs by JOE CONZO
Curated by FERNANDO RUÍZ LORENZO
OCTOBER 3-23, 2013
ClOSING: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd, 6 PM-8:30 PM
G Bo the Pro Spin’s from 8:30 PM-1 AM
OPENING: MONDAY, OCTOBER 7th 6-9 PM
Musica by BOBBITO GARCIA 9 PM-1 AM
EMPERIAL GALLERY
CAMARADAS EL BARRIO
2241 FIRST AVE (115 ST)
New York, Nueva York 10029
Skeme . Sak . Shame 125 “Cotton Comes to Spanish Harlem”
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
Exhibition Closing: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 6-8:30 PM
G Bo the Pro spins Wayback Whensday from 8:30 PM-1 AM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St) New York, Nueva York 10029
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
Detail from Photograph courtesy of BIO (TATS CRU)
SKEME interview on The Bobbito Garcia Show East Village Radio
Click on Show Archive to listen to September 23rd: http://evrad.io/1bBqCiv
“Cotton Comes to Spanish Harlem”
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
Exhibition Closing: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 6-8:30 PM
September 1-30, 2013
G Bo the Pro spins Wayback Whensday from 8:30 PM-1 AM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St)
New York, Nueva York 10029
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
Photo Credit: Vin Zarate http://500px.com/vinzarate
SKEME . SAK. SHAME 125
“Cotton Comes to Spanish Harlem”
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
September 1-30, 2013
Exhibition Opening: Monday, September 2, 2013 6-9 PM
Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love spins from 9 PM-1 AM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St)
New York, Nueva York 10029
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
Photo Credit: Vin Zarate http://500px.com/vinzarate
SKEME . SAK. SHAME 125
“Cotton Comes to Spanish Harlem”
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
Exhibition Opening: Monday, September 2, 2013 6-9 PM
Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love spins from 9 PM-1 AM
Emperial Gallery at Camaradas El Barrio
2241 First Avenue (115 St)
New York, Nueva York 10029
www.emperialgallery.tumblr.com
Skeme’s Bio:
Skeme was born in the Bronx, New York in 1964 to his father, a Barbadian immigrant and his mother a true Harlemite. Through his adolescent years Skeme enjoyed a front row seat to the free art show that adorned the New York City subway system and as fate would have it he and his mother moved to Esplanade Gardens in Harlem; his apartment building was literally 40 feet from the No. 3 Train Yard. He began writing graffiti in mid 1978 but did not “hit” his first train as Skeme until 1980. At the age of 15 Skeme “got up” on the New York City Mass Transit Authority’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, A, CC, D, E, F, M and J lines. This act of sending his work coursing throughout the veins of the five boroughs was known as going “ALL CITY”, an achievement not attained by many. Initially Skeme was known for bombing (writing) on the insides with a sophisticated “tag” style that has come to be one of the most recognizable “single hit” tags in graffiti history; however, Skeme soon discovered he had a knack for executing the elaborate masterpieces that many of the veteran writers before him and those of his day produced.
In the relatively short span of only two years Skeme covered the outsides of the trains with over 100 graffiti works of art with pieces ranging in intricacy from “simple silvers” to elaborate “wild style burners” to “whole car” productions. In addition to inside tagging style and outside letter masterpieces, Skeme became known for his original self portrait side profile cartoon characters that set him apart from his peer artists and who would spawn a host of imitators and innovators. At the age of 16 Skeme “took king of (dominated)” the number 1 and 3 lines by having the most pieces running on that line.
From 1980 to 1982 Skeme painted with some of the most notable Graff Writers of his day to include Phase2, Kase2 (RIP), Part1, Chain3, Kool131, Tean5, Kade198, Dez, EN005 (RIP), and Daze; he also enjoyed membership in some of the top writing crews to include: TMT TNT TDS TED and TC.
In 1982 Skeme, along with his mother, gained a small notoriety after being featured in the pioneering Hip Hop and Graffiti documentary “Style Wars”, produced by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silvers (RIP). This film was featured on the NYC public broadcasting station (PBS) and went on to achieve cult status, and serve as the digital ambassador of Hip Hop and Graff culture throughout the world and helped to launch Skeme to an iconic Graffiti status. His Graff fame however, would be short lived; in 1982 his mother’s wisdom prevailed and her ultimatums forced him to leave home and join the US Army where he served for over 28 years with the 2nd, 4th, 7th Infantry Divisions, and 82 Airborne Division, amassing over 100 parachute jumps. After his military career came to an end in 2010, his interest in Graffiti was soon rekindled. Since returning to painting Skeme has collaborated with some old and some new partners to produce some of the most talked about “post-train-era” productions. Skeme has also produced limited works for private collectors and has most recently finished a one man solo show in the Varsi Gallery in Rome Italy. He plans to continue the legacy of NYC Graffiti Writers and staying true to the original letter forms of his Graff forefathers.
INSPIRATION FOR THE EXHIBITION TITLE: “COTTON COMES TO HARLEM”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmSwcFkxCc
Detail from Photograph courtesy of BIO (TATS CRU)
TRIKE GND
“THESE COLORS DON’T RUN”
Curated by Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo
July.1-31.2013
OPENING: JULY 1st 6 PM -PM
First Monday: Bobbito Garcia and Rich Medina 9 PM-1 AM
CLOSING: JULY 31st 6 PM-8:30PM
Wayback Whensday: G BO the Pro 9 PM-1AM
E M P E R I A L G A L L E R Y
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C A M A R A D A S E L B A R R I O
2241 First Avenue, El Barrio, Nueva York 10029
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