New York Museum Exhibits Latin American, Caribbean Art

The works embrace several artistic mediums—painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, and media—and comprise a variety of styles, signaling a significant shift in MoMA's acquisitions of Latin American art from early modernism and geometric abstraction to informalism and Conceptual art.

This exhibition surveys the wide range of these recent acquisitions and features both historical and contemporary Latin American artists, including Joaquín Torres-García, Alejandro Otero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Alfredo Volpi, Willys de Castro, Carmen Herrera, León Ferrari, Gego, Gerd Leufert, Mira Schendel, Anna Maria Maiolino, Victor Grippo, Waltercio Caldas, Guillermo Kuitca, Arturo Herrera, Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Garaicoa, and Santiago Cucullu.

Luis Pérez-Oramas joined the Museum in 2003 as adjunct curator in the Department of Drawings. He was appointed The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in December 2006. Mr. Pérez-Oramas was recently a consulting curator, with John Elderfield, of the exhibition Armando Reverón (February 11–April 16, 2007).

He organized Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings (2006) and was a member of the curatorial team that co-organized, with Gary Garrels, MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (El Museo del Barrio, 2004).

The exhibition will be on view from November 21, 2007 to February 25, 2008. -- www.moma.org