Abstract Art from Río de la Plata: Buenos Aires and Montevideo 1933-1953

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Abstract Art from the Río de la Plata: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1933-1953, was the first exhibition in the United States to present an in-depth analysis of this vital moment in the history of abstract art in the Americas. It was curated by Mario H. Gradowczyk and Nelly Perazzo.

Forma:Brazil, Iran do Espírito Santo and Rivane Neuenschwander

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This show focused on the recent production of Iran do Espirito Santo and Rivane Neuenschwander. Both artists created spare and ephemeral works that recalled not only American minimalism, but also the innovative and experimental art of the concrete and neo-concrete movements in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s.

Forma:Brazil, Geraldo de Barros and Lygia Pape

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This exhibition presented the work of two pioneering abstract artists from the early years of concrete and neo-concrete art, a period in the 1940s and 1950s, in which Brazilian artists developed ideas from the European avant-garde in an innovative and unique way.

Geneviève Cadieux

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Americas Society presented an exhibition of works by Geneviève Cadieux, a Canadian contemporary artist. The artist created a compelling body of photographic works whose subjects were nature, the human body, and relationships between the sexes.

Lawren Stewart Harris: a Painter’s Progress

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Lawren Stewart Harris: a Painter’s Progress constituted the first full-scale retrospective of Harris’s oeuvre anywhere since 1963. Forty-six paintings traced a career that spanned six decades and was defined by a truly modernist commitment to experimentation and the idea of art as a constant progression

Picturing Guatemala: Images from the CIRMA Photography Archive 1870-1997

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This exhibition provided an overview of Guatemalan history and the country’s photographic production since the end of the last century. The exhibition featured the ethnographic images of Emilio Herbruger and Alberto Valdeavellano created in the photography studios of Juan José Yas and Tomás Zanotti.

Clara Gutsche: The Convent Series

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Curated by France Gascon, Clara Gutsche: The Convent Series comprised of sixty-five photographs in both color and black-and-white of Gutsche’s recent work. The show was a photographic study of the monastic life of cloistered nuns in Quebec.

Gerardo Suter: Labyrinth of Memory

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Gerardo Suter, one of Latin America's most important contemporary photographers was the subject of this mid-career survey of a dozen years of his work, which ranged from early photographs of enigmatic landscapes and ruins, to larger prints of more dramatic tableaux featuring nude figures with masks and other props, to recent monumental installations that combined photography with video and performance elements.