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The mixed-media artworks by Beth Caspar and Liliana Zavaleta presented in ReUse / ReShape evidence a broad range of readily discernible formal, material, spatial, and process-related commonalities. Their shared aesthetic environment is one of kindred colors, shapes, treatments, linearities, angularities, and repurposed implements – and of non-objective manners of abstraction that are nonetheless generative of unmistakable objectness. Beneath all of these sources of common ground, however, is an essential substrate of layered thematic distinctions.
Join artists Beth Caspar and Liliana Zavaleta on Saturday, October 26, from 2-4 pm for an engaging conversation about their work. This Artists Talk will explore the themes and techniques behind their mixed-media creations featured in ReUse / ReShape, offering insight into their shared and distinct artistic processes.
Join us for the reception of ReUse / ReShape on Friday, October 18, 2024, from 4-7 pm. Meet the artists, Beth Caspar and Liliana Zavaleta, while enjoying refreshments and exploring their mixed-media works.
Beth Caspar is a multidisciplinary artist based in upstate New York. She attended Pratt Institute and later the University of Florida, where she received a BFA in printmaking. She is the co-founder of ad hoc projects, a small collective of upstate New York artists who mount site-specific and virtual pop-up exhibits. She has also independently curated a variety of group shows over the past 20 years. Caspar exhibits nationally and internationally and has work in the collections of MoMA, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Columbus Museum of Art, GA; the D’Arcy Thompson Museum in Dundee, Scotland; and the New York Public Library. She also has work in numerous corporate and private collections. Caspar is represented by the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY, and Geoform, a virtual gallery.
Liliana Zavaleta was born in Peru, and now lives and works between Santiago, Chile, and upstate NY. She studied art, art history, literature, and communications at a number of universities in Europe and the Americas, and she has completed numerous workshops and residency programs, including at The Vermont Studio Center, Taller Bloc Tutoría, and The Yellow Chair Salon. Zavaleta has exhibited extensively in the U.S., Europe, and Chile. Recent exhibitions include Bodegon Cultural Los Vilos, Los Vilos, Chile; ArtUp Gallery, Margaretville, NY; Premio PAM, Santiago, Chile; Palacio Pereira, Santiago, Chile; M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY; Impreint Exhibition, London, England; Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; Bowery Gallery, NYC, NY; and ArtSTGO, Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile.