CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURALOPENIG RECEPTION: JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019 SMART MUSEUM OF ART, CHICAGO More info HERE This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latino/a identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba.  Above: Visiting Celia González’s home/studio in the Playa neighborhood, May 2017. Left to right are: Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Carlos Barberena, Harold Mendez, Dianna Frid, Alberto Aguilar, and Celia González. Cross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other, curators, cultural spaces, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time.  Carlos Barberena visiting with a fellow printmaker Julio César Peña at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana, May 2017. ARTISTS: Based in Chicago:
 Artists and curators on a tour of the Smart Museum in fall of 2017. TOUR: A version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba in January 2020.
ABOUT Cross Currents is organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. The exhibition is co-curated by Alison Fraunhar, independent curator and Associate Professor of Art and Design at St. Xavier University, Cesáreo Moreno, Director of Visual Arts & Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Raquel Carrera, an art historian and curator based in Havana, Cuba, in consultation with Michael Christiano, Deputy Director and Curator of Public Practice at the Smart Museum.  Behind-the-scenes, installation of Cross Currents at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Behind-the-scenes Here’s a behind-the-scenes look of artists installing their work for "Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural" at the Smart Museum of Art.
SUPPORT Support for the artist exchange and exhibition has been provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Southwest Airlines, and Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes.
Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery and the Elisabeth and William M. Landes Gallery.  Carlos Barberena (b. 1972, Nicaragua) "CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL"
OPENIG RECEPTION: JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019 SMART MUSEUM OF ART The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637 More info HERE
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