Description: MediaNoche opened in Spanish Harlem, a.k.a. El Barrio, to provide artist residencies and exhibition space for artists working in new media. The first of its kind, MediaNoche seeks to connect El Barrio to all parts of the globe that recognize its long history of music, art, poetry and dance.
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1355 Park Avenue (at East 102nd Street) | New York NY 10029 InProcess A new initiative of MediaNoche offering previously exhibiting artists the opportunity to showcase technology-based extensions to past exhibited work. Send a description to info@medianoche.us . MELANIE GONZALEZ Discount Saints NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 November 20, 2015 - January 30, 2016 (closed November 25-29, December 24 - January 6, 2016) Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 6PM - 8PM Artist Talk: Saturday, December 5, 201
Among the rows of bottled candles with holy figurines, the scattered array of mass produced, commodified sacred objects, Gonzalez discovered a treasure trove of faux gold jewelry, pink hair rollers, hairnets and do-rags. These she reimagined as contemporary holy relics to be used to assert a new testament centered around Ghetto Mary and her son Papi Jesús, Bronx denizens leading quotidian inner city lives.
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