{"id":43227,"date":"2021-07-23T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=43227"},"modified":"2021-07-23T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:28:29","slug":"edra-soto-morgan-lehman-ny-nada-house-404a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2021\/07\/23\/edra-soto-morgan-lehman-ny-nada-house-404a\/","title":{"rendered":"~EDRA SOTO \/ MORGAN LEHMAN, NY \/ NADA House 404A"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England’s beloved, winter white snowball quilt pattern – turns black . . . in the tropical heat \/
\nwhile addressing the historical, colonizing impact of the USA \/ on the island of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

and, prob more likely just a function of basic graphic intersects \/ points on a grid.
\nI’m not sure the artist is even aware of the traditional early New England – ‘snowball’ quilt pattern ?!!
\nbut at any rate, her decision to see the central shape ‘balls’ \/ i.e. the ‘negative’ space between the smaller surrounding grid units \/ as ‘black’ . . .
\nas opposed to . . . ‘our’ white – is telling \/ and, deliberate.<\/p>\n

our early, pieced quilt pattern . . addresses: childhood fun, and the freedom to play joyfully, and carefree – in the fresh falling snow \/
\nthis contemporary interpretation of the same \/ square grid pattern, has a completely different message.
\nthe central white snowballs, now rendered ‘black’ . . announce: “resistance, and civil disobedience”.<\/p>\n

EDRA SOTO, MORGAN LEHMAN, NYC \/ NADA House 404A
\nNADA House<\/a> – open weekends . . thru AUG 1.<\/p>\n

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\nEDRA SOTO, ‘Tropicalamerica 21’.<\/p>\n

in early New England patchwork quilting traditions, a form of this grid pattern was called, ‘Snowballs’, and in it – the black shapes, would have been rendered – in white.
\njust shut your eyes, and i-m-a-g-i-n-e. <\/p>\n

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\nEDRA SOTO, ‘Tropicalamerica 21’.<\/p>\n

EDRA SOTO, (b. 1971, Puerto Rico \/ currently teaches in the USA, where she is a faculty member in the Contemporary Practices Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n

her new hand-crafted, textile artwork, titled ‘Tropicalamerica 21′,
\n“is suspended form the ceiling, (with) custom vinyl (tape) artwork adhered to the windows . . . continuing the artist’s practice of creating architectural interventions in spaces that connect her heritage with the pa articular history of the site where her work is being presented . . .
\nThe 3 x 5.5’ fabric and metal flag features 78 4-pointed stars with each star representing a county equivalent entity (“municipio”) of Puerto Rico. This artwork is inspired by the all-black Puerto Rican flag, which was introduced in 2016, as a symbol of independence, resistance, and civil obedience. In Soto’s rendition, the artist refers to the visual motifs of Puerto Rican vernacular architecture to create a highly graphic original design.
\nThe stars are made of soft pushed metal and hang loosely from the fabric . . .
\nIn the windows Soto has created custom vinyl tape artwork that continues the architectural patterning that appears in the flag . . grafting the decorative motifs of her homeland onto the historic New England architecture (of the Governors Island \/ NADA House) . . .”
\n~MORGAN LEHMAN
\nsee: EDRA SOTO \/ NADA House – MORGAN LEHMAN <\/a><\/p>\n

note: hung this way, with a vertical domination, of course it speaks<\/strong> more of a quilt, than a flag, at least to me.
\nesp with the ‘square’ . . (piece work) multi-patterns.<\/p>\n

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\nEDRA SOTO, vinyl tape art work on the historic windows.<\/p>\n

yes, a window – is<\/strong> a beautiful & scientifically wondrous . . thing.
\nwhether it allows us to look out upon the surroundings, through clear glass \/ or symbolically – as a window of refection, upon history.
\nthe potential for dialog, as spoken by an art work, is also – a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New England’s beloved, winter white snowball quilt pattern – turns black . . . in the tropical heat \/ while addressing the historical, colonizing impact of the USA \/ on the island of Puerto Rico. and, prob more likely just a function of basic graphic intersects \/ points on a grid. I’m not sure the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43240,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions\/43240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}