Portraiture Now: Staging the Self, New Summer Hours until September 9

New York, July 30, 2015— Americas Society announces summer hours for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery exhibition Portraiture Now: Staging the Self, on view through October 17, 2015 at Americas Society on 680 Park Avenue in New York City.

From August through the first week of September, the gallery will be open Monday through Thursday, from 12 noon to 6 p.m. (see specific dates below). It will resume its regular Wednesday through Saturday weekly schedule on September 9. The gallery will be closed on Friday, July 31, and Saturday, August 1. The Americas Society gallery is free and open to the public. The next guided tour of the exhibition will be led by artist Michael Vasquez and Associate Curator Christina De León on September 15.

Featuring six contemporary artists who explore how identities are constructed and negotiated through portraiture, Portraiture Now includes 34 photographs, paintings, and mixed media portraits by Latin American artists David Antonio Cruz, Carlee Fernandez, María Martínez-Cañas, Rachelle Mozman, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, and Michael Vasquez. The exhibition team is led by Taína Caragol, curator of Latino art and history and includes Rebecca Kasemeyer, associate director of education; Dorothy Moss, associate curator of painting and sculpture; and David C. Ward, senior historian.

View a slideshow of the exhibition here.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION 

Americas Society is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Organized in conjunction with the Hunter College Art Galleries and held simultaneously at the Americas Society Art Gallery and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, Boundless Reality opens October 30, 2015 through January 23, 2016. The exhibition, curated by Professor Harper Montgomery and Hunter students, presents some 80 works—including painting, works on paper, photography, and books—by Latin American artists as well as those from across Europe and the United States, which contextualize and provide a rich and thoroughly researched narrative to Latin American landscape art of the nineteenth century. Boundless Reality includes works by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Ferdinand Bellermann, Marc Ferrez, Auguste Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Frans Post, and José María Velasco among others.

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Portraiture Now: Staging the Self is organized by the National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center.

The exhibition has been made possible through the federal support of the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center; Univision Communications, Inc.; the Stoneridge Fund of Amy and Marc Meadows; and the Rebecca Houser Westcott Fund for “Portraiture Now.”

The presentation of the exhibition in New York City is made possible by the generous support of Jaime and Raquel Gilinski, Genomma Lab Internacional, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

ON VIEW
Through October 17, 2015
Gallery hours:
August 3, 2015 to September 8, 2015
Monday through Thursday
12:00 m. - 6:00 p.m.
September 9, 2015 to October 17, 2015
Wednesday through Saturday
12:00 m. - 6:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue at 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
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Free admission

EXHIBITION TOUR
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
6:30 p.m.
Artist Michael Vasquez and Associate Curator Christina De León will lead a guided tour of the exhibition.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue at 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
View map
Free for members
$10 for non-members

Americas Society is the premier organization dedicated to education, debate and dialogue in the Americas. Established by David Rockefeller in 1965, our mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship. Americas Society Visual Arts program boasts the longest-standing private space in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada; it has achieved a unique and renowned leadership position in the field, producing both historical and contemporary exhibitions.        

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