{"id":704,"date":"2008-10-25T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/10\/25\/cristina-toroboston\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:03:47","slug":"cristina-toroboston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/10\/25\/cristina-toroboston\/","title":{"rendered":"~CRISTINA TORO\/BOSTON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/cristina_BOSTON.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" alt=\"cristina boston\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nCRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;in my room&#8217;, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 in.\/IMAGE COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p>CRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;THROW AWAY THE LIGHTS AND SAY OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THE DARK&#8217;<br \/>\nOPENING TO-NITE !! &#8211; SAT OCT 25 !! &#8211; 6-8 PM<br \/>\nthe show runs: OCT 24 &#8211; NOV 26, 2008<br \/>\nLAMONTAGNE GALLERY &#8211; 555 EAST 2nd STREET &#8211; SOUTH BOSTON , MASS<br \/>\nGALLERY HRS: WED-SAT 11am-6pm\/TUES by appointment<br \/>\nsee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamontagnegallery.com\">LAMONTAGNE GALLERY, BOSTON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CONGRATS,  to our dear young friend CRISTINA TORO, (born 1983. PUERTO RICO), now based in upstate NY !! wish we could be there !!<br \/>\nthe show looks &#8212;&#8212;  F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C !!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/cristina_boston___2.jpg\" width=\"362\" height=\"360\" alt=\"cristina boston # 2\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nCRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;Nocturnal Tree Dwelling Octopus&#8217;, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in.\/IMAGE COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/cristina_boston___3.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"360\" alt=\"cristina boston # 3\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nCRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;Moon Fruit&#8217;, 2008, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 in.\/IMAGE COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/cristina_boston___4.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"432\" alt=\"cristina boston # 4\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nCRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;Nest&#8217;, 2008, acrylic on wood, 24 x 24 ins.\/IMAGE COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamontagnegallery.com\/html\/CRISTINATORO\/CT_artist2.html\">more images from the show\/gallery website !!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>artlovers was lucky enough to met Cristina in person, when her work was <em>first<\/em> exhibited in NYC, at HANNA FUSIHARA ARON&#8217;S<br \/>\n(now gone, upstate !!) LITTLE CAKES LITTLE GALLEY on EAST 6th STREET !!<br \/>\nAt the time &#8211; Hanna told us, Cristina had sent her some jpegs, unsolicted !! &#8211; and it was love at first sight !!<br \/>\nsee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/06\/13\/a-look-backcristina-toro\/\">CRISTINA TORO\/&#8217;The More She Saw &#8211; The Less She Spoke&#8217; &#8211; a 2 part show, FEB-MARCH 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/lamontagne.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"310\" alt=\"lamontagne\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nLAMONTAGNE GALLERY, BOSTON\/PHOTO COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2007, LaMontagne Gallery is a 2,300 sq. ft. exhibition space located in South Boston on East Second Street. . . . founded to create an environment in Boston for the display and sale of emerging contemporary artists &#8211; the gallery features visual, sound and performance artists based in  Boston and beyond. Gallery directors are: RUSSELL LAMONTAGNE &#038;  EMILY ISENBERG .<br \/>\nRussell LaMontagne  was previously a co-founder of LFL Gallery in New York City.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamontagnegallery.com\"><br \/>\nLAMONTAGNE GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;in my room&#8217;, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 in.\/IMAGE COURTESY: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY CRISTINA TORO &#8211; &#8216;THROW AWAY THE LIGHTS AND SAY OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THE DARK&#8217; OPENING TO-NITE !! &#8211; SAT OCT 25 !! &#8211; 6-8 PM the show runs: OCT 24 &#8211; NOV 26, 2008 LAMONTAGNE GALLERY [&hellip;]<\/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\/704"}],"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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}