At this year's Armory Show, ICI and ART FOR CHANGE present a collaborative booth in support of independent curatorial practice and the creation of greater diversity and sustainable change in the curatorial field. This is ART FOR CHANGE and ICI's fourth collaboration, and both organizations are offering limited-edition prints by leading and emerging Latinx artists with a portion of all net proceeds benefiting ICI.
The booth features a collection of works specially commissioned by ART FOR CHANGE, with hand-embellished, signed and numbered prints by Danielle de Jesus, Lucia Herrero, José Lerma, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Devon Osorio, and Jean-Pierre Villafañe. Also on view is A Bigger Piece (2021), our most recent print edition by L.A.-based Chicano artist and queer icon Joey Terrill, which is inspired by a 2008 painting of the same name from his long-running Still Life series.
The presentation brings together artists whose work investigates ideas of personal and cultural significance, social environments, performance, and myth. The selected artwork is also in conversation with The Armory Show's overarching focus on defining Latin American and Latinx art, and in particular with the Focus section curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates. Dedicated to solo- and dual-artist presentations, the Focus section examines the intersectional issues surrounding the environment within South–South ecologies, focusing on personal and political climates as they interact with race and gender.
