Kenny Rivero: I Still Hoop
29 October - 27 December 2020
Charles Moffett
511 Canal Street, NYC
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present I Still Hoop, a solo presentation of 17 new works by New York-based visual artist and musician Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012). Through the lens of intergenerational Dominican-American identity, the autobiographical paintings poetically explore Rivero’s “fear of death as a person of color in America.”
While the works are imbued with playfully nostalgic markers of Rivero’s 1980s-1990s New York upbringing—like pink-and-teal interiors, and the title work’s representation of a Dominican woman with large hoops, high waisted pants, and a voluminous hairstyle—Rivero explains that the show speaks more broadly to the enduring lived experience of people of color in America, and what that looks like in the current political landscape.
More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view, as well as 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.
