Showing posts with label The Box Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Box Gallery. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2021

The Box Gallery Exhibition Blank Slate: Domenic Esposito on cover of Mondo Italiano!


The Box Gallery is finally back on track and opening to the public with much care and safety measures! 


Artist + Social Activist Domenic Esposito tackles mental health in new series of works to be shown at The Box Gallery kicks off with a national roundtable discussion with mental health leaders.

Artist and social activist Domenic Esposito to exhibit new work this 
March at the Box Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida 





The Box Gallery
Blank Slate Fine Art Exhibition

Roundtable national discussion on mental health leaders and Press Preview
March 6, 2021, 7-9 PM

Reception: 
March 13, 2021, 7-10 PM

Artist Talk: 
March 20, 2021, 7-9 PM

Contact: 

Rolando Chang Barrero
PalmBeachFineArtGallery@gmail.com
 
Other images and interviews are available upon request. 


West Palm Beach, FL 01-22-2021--Domenic Esposito will be showing his new series of artwork entitled Blank Slate, along with select pieces of his signature work addressing the Opioid Crisis, at the socially conscious Box Gallery in West Palm Beach's “Cultural Corridor.” 
The exhibit will be curated by The Box Gallery owner and curator Rolando Chang Barrero. 

Esposito's new series titled "Blank Slate" represents the artist's reflections upon current times and the era of fear, depression, and loneliness experienced in the "new normal." Esposito explores the isolation of those living with mental illness and those suffering from substance abuse whose challenges have been exacerbated and laid bare.  
All the figures depicted in Blank Slate are hooded; their faces are either totally or partially hidden from view. Many pieces contrast bronze patinas with painted backgrounds illuminating the hooded figures' hidden, inner world, alluding to the wearer's identity. Through the combination of two and three-dimensional media, the artworks push the hooded subject into our visceral space creating conflict between the figure's desire to be hidden and the viewer's own incompatible impulses to ignore, expose and understand. 
 
The Blank Slate Exhibition will open with a reception on on March 6th and continue through March 29, 2021. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 p.m. or by appointment.















Friday, March 31, 2017

Artist, Rolando Chang Barrero on The South Florida Gay News Out50 2017 List





Rolando Chang Barrero
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33404

"I have an insatiable desire to leave a legacy defined by what can be done—what is possible in the arts. I’m committed to the advancement of the arts in all areas. I want to enroll people in a vision full of possibilities.” 
-Rolando Chang Barrero
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Rolando Chang Barrero of The Box Gallery West Palm Beach Florida

To call Rolando Chang Barrero just “an artist” is an understatement. He is an outspoken activist for the South Florida arts scene, especially in Palm Beach County, where he has resided for the past several years.


“It’s pretty safe to say that millions of people have enjoyed the rich art and cultural diversity of South Florida. Guests and tourists have flocked to South Florida way before the grand opening of Art Basel in 2002 and even prior to the South Florida Art Center on Lincoln Road in 1984,” said the former Miami Beach resident. “In Palm Beach specifically, within the last six years we have witnessed an incredible maturity in both the public and private sectors of the art scene. From the city of Delray Beach to the city West Palm Beach it is more than apparent that the public art administrators and the area’s artists are working together to create many of our nation’s most syncretic art and cultural initiatives.”
The Cuban-American graduate of the Arts Institute of Chicago Art School operates a self-named gallery in Lake Worth and was a pioneer in the Boynton Beach Arts District, where he founded ActivistArtistA Gallery, which promotes the works of new and maturing artists.
“I believe that artists make a living proportionally to their drive, circumstances, and vision. Like doctors, lawyers, and other professionals…some artists navigate life better than others,” he explained.











Friday, March 24, 2017

in The Sun Sentinel: Today Federal cuts prompt artist's 10-hour free expression event


President Donald Trump has put forth his proposed budget, which calls for the elimination of funding for the National Endowment of the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Other cuts include the departments of Education and Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency programs, among many others. 
Artist Rolando Chang Barrero, who runs the ActivistArtistA Gallery in Boynton Beach and the Box Gallery in West Palm Beach, and his fellow artists are reacting to proposed budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts.
For his upcoming KeroWACKED Show at the Boynton Beach Arts District, Barrero said he is organizing "Sound Out Loud," a 10-hour open-mic event for people to express their First Amendment rights "as if they might not have this opportunity again."
Forty people will get their turn at the microphone for 15 minutes each from noon to 10 p.m. April 16 at ActivistArtistA, 422 W. Industrial Ave. Email BoyntonBeachArtDistrict@gmail.com to reserve a spot.
A companion exhibit, "Lest We Forget," remembers the Holocaust and the results of what happens when government separates people by religion and/or nationality, Barrero said.
"The ideas for these shows came about as a direct result of the current political climate and Trump's policies," he said. Continue to full story.


Sound Out Loud!
Sponsored by ActivistArtistA, Fare Play, and The Box Gallery 



April 16, 2017 | 12-10P
Contact: BoyntonBeachArtDistrict@gmail.com







Friday, August 12, 2016

Florida Weekly : Artistic Innovator fires up Palm Beach art scene

Rolando Chang Barrero (photo by Katie Deitz)

The Florida Weekly
August 11-17, 2016
ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT



Florida Weekly : Artistic Innovator...Rolando Chang Barrero...fires up Palm Beach art scene.

"Artistic innovator...fires up Palm Beach art scene!"
"EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE A PERSON MAKES A BIG impact. Five years ago, that person arrived in Palm Beach County and his activism, leadership and energy ripple through the arts community. " 
- Katie Deits, Florida Weekly Correspondent
Thank you Katie Deits, Scott Simmons, and The Florida Weekly!




Art Call expected to bring out top talent for the Florida Flora and Fauna Exhibition,
With 4 days left to submit work (deadline is August 15) the submissions are pouring in every day. Here are few of over 100 works already received for consideration in what may turn out to be one of the best exhibition this summer!
This is s an amazing showcase of works by some of the top artists of Florida!

Florida Flora and Fauna: The River of Grass and Beyond opens with a reception on September 9th, 2016 at 6 p.m. at
followed by an evening of progress sounds from 9-11 p.m.
created by Pocket of Lollipops and Pesh Kab.


www.TheBoxGallery.Info

Heart of the West Palm Beach #CulturalCorridor

811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405

786-521-1199

presents


Exhibition Dates:

September 9th through October 2, 2016

Opening Reception:

Friday, September 9, 2016 | 7-11 pm







Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Palm Beach Post Today! Is Belvedere Road the new “cultural corridor” of West Palm Beach?

The Palm Beach Post


Is Belvedere Road the new “cultural corridor” of West Palm Beach?
By Barbara Marshall-Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

The christening party for what Barrerro and his partners hope will be Palm Beach County’s newest arts district starts Friday with three days of events behind the fresh white facade of Barrerro’s 4,000-square-foot Box Gallery.
The All-Florida Exhibition includes work of about 30 artists from all over the world who now live in Florida. Saturday night’s event will include six hours of live music, films and performance art. Sunday, curators, artists and arts administrators from around the country will present conversations about the state of the arts in South Florida.
“Rolando was a huge force in making the arts more alive,” said Debbie Coles-Dobay, Boynton Beach’s public art manager. “He’s very clever and very creative. He’s an excellent curator. He will look at the trends, meet many different artists, look at what’s happening in world and decide what will attract people.”
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811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
www.theBOXgallery.info

Grand  Opening Weekend | June 3-5, 2016

Friday, June 3, 2016 | 7 to 11 p.m.
"All-Florida Exhibition Opening" 


Saturday, June 4,2016 | 5 to 11 p.m.
“Projections and Performances”with live music, performance art, films and video


Sunday, June 5, 2016 | 3-5 p.m.
“State of the Arts Presentations"