{"id":175340,"date":"2023-05-05T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175340"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:08:22","slug":"juan-francisco-elso-por-america-opens-at-phoenix-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175340","title":{"rendered":"Juan Francisco Elso: Por Am\u00e9rica Opens at Phoenix Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"p-banner__title \"><a href=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Juan-Francisco-Elso-with-Caballo-contra-colibri-Photo-Christina-Lobeira.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175341\" src=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Juan-Francisco-Elso-with-Caballo-contra-colibri-Photo-Christina-Lobeira-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"p-banner__desc-wrap\">\n<p>Organized by El Museo del Barrio, <em>Juan Francisco Elso: Por Am\u00e9rica<\/em> investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956\u20131988), who emerged as a visual artist in the late 1970s and early 1980s before dying of leukemia at the age of 32. Elso, who was based in Havana, is associated with the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba. <em>Por Am\u00e9rica<\/em> is the first traveling survey of Elso\u2019s work in the United States since the early 1990s, representing a rare opportunity for Arizona audiences to experience the artist\u2019s dynamic and visceral creations.<\/p>\n<p>Fashioned from natural, organic materials such as mud, clay, straw, twigs, bark, and earth, Elso\u2019s sculptures and installations examine the complexities of contemporary Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American identities, which draw influence from Indigenous traditions, Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs, and the traumas of colonial oppression. The artist\u2019s limited production, including plans for several unrealized works, reveal a more expansive understanding of the Americas, free from continental division and conventional ideas of state and nationhood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><span class=\"p-banner__date t-italic\">Phoenix Art Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"p-banner__dates\"><span class=\"p-banner__date t-italic\">May 6 to September 17, 2023<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"p-banner__dates\"><span class=\"p-banner__date t-italic\">Located in Steele Gallery <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/phxart.org\/visit\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy Tickets<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by El Museo del Barrio, Juan Francisco Elso: Por Am\u00e9rica investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956\u20131988), who emerged as a visual artist in the late 1970s and early 1980s before dying of leukemia at the age of 32. Elso, who was based in Havana, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-175340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-learn","tag-live-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}