blanco y negro jose luis cortes
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Jose Luis Cortés is known for his artwork inspired by his time in New York City in the early 1990’s. Cortés’ very personal work reflects the underbelly of gay life – documenting a life on the fringes of society: of sex workers, addiction, and of a changing landscape. He is an artist who, with his work, validates his world and voices his identity as both a gay man and as a Puerto Rican.TRANSCRIPT
JOSE LUIS CORTESJOSE LUIS CORTES
EN BLANCO Y NEGRO
TALLER PUERTORIQUEŇO Philadelphia Pennsilvania
GAY Y BORICUA
JOSE LUIS CORTES
JUNE 12 TO 25 - 2015
TALLER PUERTORIQUEŇO Lorenzo Homar Gallery
Philadelphia Pennsilvania
As part of the citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Reminder Day demon-strations, GALAEI and Taller Puertorriqueño are pleased to present
In June, as part of the exhibition, he will be conducting an outreach workshop with stu-dents from GALAEI and Taller’s youth programs. Following the exhibition, on June 20th at 3PM, there will be a panel discussion at Taller Puertorriqueño on gay and Latino issues led by the writer and AIDS activist.
For more information on the panel go to: http://tallerpr.org/event/gay-latino-panel-discussion
For more information on the 50th anniversary of the Reminder Day demonstrations go to http://waygay.org/reminder2015
EN BLANCO Y NEGRO GAY Y BORICUA
Jose Luis Cortés is a native Philadelphian who’s known for his artwork inspired by his time in New York City in the early 1990’s. Cortés’ very personal work reflects the underbelly of gay life – documenting a life on the fringes of society: of sex workers, addiction, and of a chang-ing landscape. He is an artist who, with his work, validates his world and voices his identity as both a gay man and as a Puerto Rican.
Cortés’ work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country as well as in Europe. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Out Magazine and many other publications. You can see more of his work at the Visual AIDS Online Reg-istry, or at joselcortes.blogspot.com.
Cortés is also a founding member of The Archive Project, and was included in the landmark exhibition, The First Ten (1995), which showcased the work of artists living with HIV. Cur-rently he works with urban youth in Puerto Rico, teaching them about art, and how it can become a part of their daily lives. In 2013, Cortés participated in VIAL, an exhibition at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR). The exhibition in Taller Puertorriqueño will be his first in Philadelphia.
an exhibition of the artwork of
JOSE LUIS CORTES
JUNE 12 TO 25 - 2015
TALLER PUERTORIQUEŇO Lorenzo Homar Gallery
Philadelphia Pennsilvania
Opening Reception June 12, 5:30 - 8 pm
Photo by ADÁL, 2014
Known as El Corazón Cultural del Barrio, The Cultural Heart of Latino Philadelphia, Taller Puertorriqueño (Taller) catalyzes community development and builds bridges between the local community, the region and the Puerto Rican and Latino Diasporas. For almost four decades, we have been elevating and preserving Puerto Rican and Latino culture through arts and cultural programs, including art education for all ages, socially conscious art exhi-bitions, the Philadelphia region’s only bilingual bookstore of its kind, and a range of engag-ing musical events, theater performances, festivals, lectures, book readings, and much more. Guided by our conviction that arts and culture can empower positive community change, Taller has grown from a small graphics workshop into a contemporary, multifaceted arts organization that touches the lives of over 100,000 people each year.
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This exhibition and cycle are supported by grants from PECO and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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