One Art Space Inaugural Exhibition Showcases Felipe Herrera | May 26 – June 30, 2011
New York – One Art Space, a new exhibition space at 23 Warren Street in Tribeca, makes its debut May 26, 2011, with a presentation of mixed media work by noted Venezuelan artist, Felipe Herrera. The 1700-square foot venue will be dedicated to the promotion of international contemporary art, celebrating established figures and introducing new artists to enrich the New York art community’s aesthetic diversity.
Born in 1947, Felipe Herrera first gained recognition in his native Venezuela in the 1970s, lauded for his commitment to drawing as a vital strategy in late 20th-century art practice. His inventory of images – bodies, chairs, clocks, pyramids, chess boards – formed a highly charged symbolic universe of open-ended narratives. As Herrera has remarked, “I believe that truth is all right for mathematics, chemistry, and philosophy. Not for living. Optimism, dreams, desire, hope, are more important for living.” Beginning in the 1980s, the artist expanded his work into three dimensions, creating boxes that contained carefully molded forms of the objects he had rendered so engagingly on paper. Manifestations of the artist’s inner life – yet recognizable and familiar – the components of his works converge to comment on both the singularity and universality of experience and perception.
One Art Space founder Dan Giella is the owner of New York’s Giella Design, specialists in corporate communications with a client roster that includes AT&T, ESPN, General Motors, Toshiba, and Xerox. Gallery Director Elizabeth Villar has worked in the arts for over 25 years. She began her career as a cultural attaché to the Venezuelan Mission to the United Nations, before joining The British Council as Director of International Relations, promoting British art and culture through exhibitions and events in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. A former development director for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, she has also served as Miami Sales Coordinator for Artnexus Magazine and was an international arts correspondent for Peru-based Turista Magazine.
Felipe Herrera opens Thursday, May 26, with a reception from 6 to 9 pm. The exhibit will be on view until June 30, 2011. One Art Space is located at 23 Warren Street, New York.