The Art Show
November 4 - 7, 2021
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Installation view of Corbett vs. Dempsey booth at The Art Show, November 4–7, 2021. Photo: Silvia Ros
Installation view of Corbett vs. Dempsey booth at The Art Show, November 4–7, 2021. Photo: Silvia Ros
Installation view of Corbett vs. Dempsey booth at The Art Show, November 4–7, 2021. Photo: Silvia Ros
Installation view of Corbett vs. Dempsey booth at The Art Show, November 4–7, 2021. Photo: Silvia Ros
Installation view of Corbett vs. Dempsey booth at The Art Show, November 4–7, 2021. Photo: Silvia Ros
Omar Velázquez, Dead End, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 42 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Trap, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 42 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Tijereta, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches.
Omar Velázquez, The Lift, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 60 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Mamao, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Papichi, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Playero Solitario, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Carpintero, 2021, oil, acrylic, ready made; woods: Wenge, Mango. Approximately 28 x 14 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Pumplin Cuatro, 2020, cow bone, oil paint, brass and woods (aguacate, Yagrumo, Caoba, Cedro, Majó, Acacia, Mangó), 4 1/2 x 34 x 9 1/2 inches.
Omar Velázquez, Tiple Aguacate, 2020, cow bone, oil paint and wood (Aguacate, Yagrumo, Acacia, Majó), 4 x 22 x 4 inches.
Emilio Cruz, Flexor Digestorum Profundos, 2004, graphite on paper, 17 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Tiger Man Developing a Language, 2004, graphite on paper, 26 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Sabatage and Guesswork, 2004, graphite on paper, 9 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, The Vulturas Guest, 2004, graphite on paper, 17 3/4 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Mice Scrutinizing Art and Culture, 2004, graphite on paper, 20 1/4 x 28 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Pick It Up Boys, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Untitled, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Still Life with Fox, 2004, graphite on paper, 17 1/2 x 23 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Necropolis of Spies, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 1/2 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, The Assassination of the Hamster, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, All of us are Hungry, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 1/4 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Svengali Hypnotising Mice With a Mirror, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, I Am Food..., 2004, graphite on paper, 19 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Predictable, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Liason for Antonin Artaud’s Plaque, 2004, graphite on paper, 19 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Think Tank, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Necropolis Seen from My Window, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 27 1/2 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Equestrians, 2004, graphite on paper, 19 1/2 x 25 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, Basket of Fruit Visiting the Mind, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 25 1/2 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Emilio Cruz, It’s a Matter of Choice, 2004, graphite on paper, 18 x 26 inches. From the series, I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2021
Press Release
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents two artists of different generations from the broader Caribbean diaspora. Emilio Cruz (1938-2004), a major figure in New York's 1960s figurative expressionist movement, who showed at Martha Jackson and Zabriskie Galleries, was born in Brooklyn of Cuban heritage. We will be exhibiting an important late work by Cruz, the 20-panel set of drawings from 2004 titled "I Am Food, I Eat the Eater of Food." Omar Velázquez (b. 1984) lives between Puerto Rico and Chicago; his vibrant canvases feature deep perspective backgrounds with tableaux of objects in the fore. Corbett vs. Dempsey will be showing new canvases and hand-crafted instruments by Velázquez. These artists – both committed in their personal way to representation, both engaged with allegory and allusion – are acute social critics and defiant humanists whose national and ethnic identity is at once central to their work and at the service of an expansive universalist vision.
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