The Abrons Arts Center is pleased to announce a new exhibition opening September 10, 2009 in the Main Gallery featuring artists Mary A. Valverde, Glexis Novoa and writer Rose Oluronke Ojo. Untitled (land-scape) presents work that depicts imagined topographies through the use of iconography, allegory and metaphor.

The exhibition is comprised of statements that offer and propose the way we perceive familiar and unfamiliar images and physical objects. Creating different entry points to visual and written languages where what is understood can also be foreign in translation thus propelling one to reconsider how language is used and understood.

This exhibition posits all three participating artists/writer in developing site-specific gestures in response to our current global economic landscape which sparks many views, totalitarianism and distractions. Mary Valverde will activate the gallery space through ephemera, fragile offerings that suggest a need for alternative perspectives in how society can consider its past and present and find the value of dual meaning rather than single trajectories that are now economically worn thin. Valverde’s art practice includes references to her ancestral origins of Ecuador.

Glexis Novoa, like Valverde, is a multi-media artist from Cuba who will be making a single graphite landscape drawing that incorporates various cities from different countries the artist has visited—including various historical landmarks located in Lower Manhattan.

Rose Oluronke Ojo’s writing depicts a trans-Atlantic dialogue between individuals. While detailing separation, loss and gain through the use of contemporary iconography and symbolism, the work also functions as the topographic details of an incorporeal landscape.

This exhibition at the Abrons Arts Center was co-organized by artist/curator William Cordova and writer Rose Oluronke Ojo as part of BASE, a forum, a response in discourse and design. It exists as a platform for locality and groundedness that includes choreographers, writers, visual artists and community activists.