Rolando Chang Barrero honored as Best Artist in Palm Beach 2022 for second time in SFGN.

Rolando Chang Barrero honored as Best Artist in Palm Beach 2022 for second time in SFGN. Rolando Chang Barrero www.ActivistArtistA.com

Best Artist 
2022
https://southfloridagaynews.com/Local/best-of-2022-palm-beach.html

Rolando Barrero is the owner of the Box Gallery in West Palm Beach. He and his Gallery have been recognized as the Best Artist and Best Gallery of 2022. This is Barrero’s second year being selected as Best Artist. Best Gallery won in a reader’s choice category.

Of his artistry, Barrero said, “I try to create culturally relevant and thought-provoking work without compromise.” His latest piece, “The Family,” was recently installed as a public art piece at the Opportunity Early Childhood Education & Family Center in West Palm Beach.

“The Box Gallery will continue to maintain its reputation as a First Amendment space where all voices can be amplified through the arts,” Barrero said of his gallery. Barrero cultivates diverse styles of art and does not prioritize any one style over another.

“All art is welcome here,” he said.

2021
https://southfloridagaynews.com/Local/palm-beach-s-best-lgbt-activist-artist-is.html

Rolando Chang Barrero has done a lot for Palm Beach County, so perhaps that’s why readers voted him as the Best LGBT Activist, Best Artist, and his art gallery in West Palm Beach won for Best Art Gallery.

Executive Director of Compass, Julie Seaver won this category so many times we decided to rename it LGBT Activist (NOT Named Julie Seaver), with her blessing!

Chang Barrero created the Pajaro Pride Wall Project, an auction that has over 100 artists, friends, allies, and community leaders creating art to sell.

“ I’m very honored to be included on this list among so many friends and associates,” Chang Barrero said. “It’s a great honor to be recognized by our community and I am very grateful. I’m very happy to be able to continue to serve my community.”

He has been creating art for over 40 years, according to his bio. He is a multimedia artist with a portfolio including fashion design, film, painting, acting, and more. His activism and his art are often intertwined, which is why the exhibits that his art gallery hosts feature topics that range from human rights to personal identity. Barrero has built a gallery in which it's easy to get lost, yet somehow find a piece of yourself along the way. 

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THE DYNAMIC DUO, LAURENCE GARTEL AND ROLANDO CHANG BARRERO Prepare for GARTEL MEDIA BLITZ PALM BEACH! OPENS THIS SATURDAY!

THE BOX GALLERY PREPARES FOR GARTEL MEDIA BLITZ PALM BEACH!

OPENS THIS SATURDAY!

 The Box Gallery
www.TheBoxGallery.info

VIP Reception for

Gartel Media Blitz Palm Beach 

The Box Gallery
presents
Gartel Media Blitz Palm Beach
a retrospective of the life and work of Laurence Gartel
Curator: Rolando Chang Barrero

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"For years we have been discussing and planning this exhibition," says owner and curator of The Box Gallery, Rolando Chang Barrero. "It's more than just an exhibition, it's an experience!"

The already sold out exhibition had to add a few more dates after over-riding the event's ticketing program to allow for the overwhelming response for the opening reception.  Calls and visits to the gallery from amounts to a who's who list from South Florida, New York, and Los Angels guests has been coming in for weeks now,  a great sign that people are excited to see the exhibition and to get meet Gartel.

The Box Gallery has placed giant vinyls of Gartel's exhibition poster on the front windows of the gallery in preparation for Saturday's event and added two walls inside to accommodate the numerous works included in the exhibit. 

GARTEL: MEDIA BLITZ PALM BEACH

September 3 – October 1, 2022


The Box Gallery

811 Belvedere Rd.
West Palm Beach, FL 33405


www.TheBoxGallery.info


Fine Art Exhibition: GARTEL: MEDIA BLITZ PALM BEACH

Reception: September 3, 2022 at 7 p.m.


Laurence Gartel, known as the Father of Digital Art has been pioneering the Computer aesthetic for over 45-years. It has been a global journey showing the world a new way to communicate. Gartel and his new visual language sparked interest delivering the keynote speech at the First Pan Pacific Computer Conference in Melbourne, Australia. His arrival triggered much anticipated excitement landing him on the front page of The Australian newspaper in 1985. This was a decade after Gartel discovered analog system computers working with video guru Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York.

The dynamic duo, Laurence Gartel and Rolando Chang Barrero,

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New Times Best Art Exhibition: (Un)Common Traces at ActivistArtistA Gallery

NEW TIMES!

ActivistArtistA Gallery Exhibition Wins! 

Best Art Exhibition Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach 2014 - "(Un)Common Traces"

To Ecuador and Back (Un)Common Traces! Best Exhibition 2014

"For building bridges among cultures and among South Florida arts communities, 

"(Un)Common Traces" was unmatched."

Read all about it here: Best Exhibition 2014

What an honor!! Thank You New Times Staff and Writers!!
Last year we had the honor of being selected as Best Art Walk 2013, this year we have been honored with Best Art Exhibition 2014. I cannot tell you how thrilled we are with this news.
As a member of Art Synergy and a part of the Palm Beach County Art Galleries it is nothing less then a privildge to curate and create art and cultural programs for the Boynton Beach Art District in the City of Boynton Beach and Palm Beach County Arts. South Florida Arts are now recognized in our county because  the quality and perseverence of our students and emerging artists.
Special Thanks Fire Ant for a great review of this exhibition! Go to:

New Times!

Projects, Emerging Artists Collective, Descends on Boynton Beach by Fire Ant

Artist and arts impresario Rolando Chang Barrero has another lively show opening this weekend at his Boynton Beach exhibition space, ActivistArtistA Gallery. (Un)Common Traces is a fresh effort by four artists from Dwelling Projects, a Dade County artists' collective. FULL STORY

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2013/10/dwelling_projects_a_wandering.php

Related story:

To Ecuador and back: 

Artists to unveil new vision

Thank you Jan Engoren, Sun Sentinel!

 SunSentinel REVIEW
Rolando Chang Barrero, ActivistArtistA Gallery Curator.

NEW TIMES BEST ART WALK: Boynton Beach Art District

NEW TIMES BEST OF LIST 2013

ActivistArtistA's Boynton Beach Art District Art Walk

Best of Broward / Palm Beach® 2013

Best Art Walk - 2013

For Vendor Opportunities Contact:

ActivistArtistA Gallery

422 West Industrial Ave.

Boynton Beach, FL 33426

786-521-1199

Contact: Rolando Chang Barrero

ActivistArtistA Art Walk

Less than two years ago, the strip of warehouses off of Boynton Beach's Industrial Avenue, just a block west of I-95, was home to old machine parts, drab façades, and a couple of high-end galleries that have been around since the '80s. Now, it's nearly all filled with art. Things began to turn around for the area when artist and gallery owner Rolando Chang Barrero moved up from South Beach, turning his studio into a gallery and taking the reins on the newly developing Boynton Beach Arts District. With a crew of like-minded arts advocates including Lea Vendetta, Andrew Ackerman, Alexia Hemingway, and Chan Shepard of the KeroWACKED Crew, a growing collection of projects meant to infuse and inspire the area with art, and new galleries popping up like weeds, it's no surprise a monthly art walk brings in the community. Apart from spearheading the Bay Gates Project, which assigns a different artist to paint a warehouse gate each month, Barrero's ActivistArtistA gallery also sponsors the Boynton Beach Arts District Art Walk. Visitors can expect to see open galleries and studio spaces, open-jam musical performances, food trucks, raffles, and lots more arts-fueled surprises on the fourth Thursday of each month.

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The Boynton Beach Art District
404-422 West Industrial Ave.
Boynton Beach, Florida

So dive in and check out something new. May the force be with you, South Florida.