The Art Show, 2024

Park Armory, New York, NY

October 29 - November 2, 2024

BENEFIT PREVIEW
Tuesday, October 29: 5—9pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Wednesday, October 30: 12pm—7pm
Thursday, October 31: 12pm—7pm
Friday, November 1: 12pm—7pm
Saturday, November 2: 12pm—6pm

Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America

Greg Kucera Gallery is proud to feature gallery artists Anthony White, Humaira Abid, and Juventino Aranda at The Art Show in New York. Each of these artists have had highly regarded exhibitions at the gallery in the last two years and one-person and/or group museum exhibitions in 2022-23.

These artists explore the global politics and social integration of our contemporary world. 

Greg Kucera gallery owners and artists, from left to right: Carol Clifford, Juventino Aranda, Humaira Abid, Anthony White, Greg Kucera, and Jim Wilcox

Work in exhibition

Humaira Abid

HUMAIRA ABID, born and educated in Pakistan, immigrated to the United States in 2008 and lives and works in Seattle, WA. The artist’s sculptures and installations are an inventive combination of carved wood and painting. She creates highly detailed works that explore politics, religion, taboos, and societal stereotypes. Abid has a museum show, Searching For Home, touring the country through the Contemporary Craft organization in Pittsburgh, PA. It is currently showing at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA, May 24, 2024. Last Fall, Abid was part of an international exhibit, Migration, at the Museo Civico Palazzo della Penna, in Perugia, Italy.

“The customs and ceremonies may be different, but vulnerable people are abused and mistreated everywhere. All societies have extremists who twist religion as well as other social institutions and use it to their own benefit, to oppress women, vulnerable and defenseless people. I deeply believe that a work of art should have a purpose. As an artist, I have a responsibility to educate the society in which I live, and to be a voice. This has been the main purpose of my work and will always be.” – Humaira Abid

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Juventino Aranda

JUVENTINO ARANDA, a young LatinX artist from Washington State had a one-person show, Esperé Mucho Tiempo Pa Ver, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA in 2022-23. As a multimedia artist, Aranda explores issues of identity, social justice and the marginalization of cultures in today’s United States. Using a variety of materials and techniques, Aranda makes work that appropriates images and phrases from his childhood and family history. Paintings, several on Pendleton blankets, comment on the artist and his cultural identity.

“I am Mexican and second generation “American”. My work demarcates the intersection of my Mexican and American identities. I am not Hispanic, Latino, and definitely not Spanish —even though I live everyday with the consequences of their conquest. My art struggles with feeling foreign in my native land. Not unlike my personal experiences of never fully ascribing to one cultural category, my artwork also blends and manipulates the categories of painting and sculpture, craft and high art, manufacturing and handmade work to develop a new visual lexicon that reflects the contemporary conditions of my experiences. My processes and material choices are embedded in the experiences of marginalized communities.”
–Juventino Aranda

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Anthony White

ANTHONY WHITE’s work speaks about being young, gay, Black and part of a generation of artists enamored with all things digital. In 2022-23 White had a one-person exhibition, Limited Liability, at the Seattle Art Museum after winning its prestigious Betty Bowen artist award, in 2021. This Spring/Summer, White was part of an international exhibition, Los Raros/Las Raras: New Narratives of Contemporary Collage, in Valladolid, Spain.

“Societal relevance in the age of the internet has the ability to create power structures contingent on one’s virtual/artificial portrayal of status and wealth. I make work that is heavily rooted in investigating the role of envy within these complex, invisible structures. What are the reasons we prescribe importance onto objects and ideas that we choose to present to the world, especially filtered through social media? In these areas, remnants of personal habits, designer goods and obsolete technology coalesce to form an identity of one’s attachments and desires. These domestic and digital settings are the stage for sensational self-portraits which aim to cast a reputable portrayal of our lifestyles, building characteristics that blur the lines between fact and fiction.“ —Anthony White