Boston Tea Party Remix: Roberto Lugo
Opening Reception
Friday, September 12, 6-8 pm
Artist Talk: Roberto Lugo & Tessa Bachi Haas
Saturday, September 13, 2-3 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre, ticket registration required (purchase here)
Praise Shadows is honored to present Roberto Lugo’s first solo exhibition in New England, featuring the celebrated potter’s idiosyncratic take on ceramics, which infuses the medium’s deep cross-cultural history, his past as a graffiti artist, and his upbringing in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia to working-class Puerto Rican parents. Titled Boston Tea Party Remix, the exhibition features portrait-based sculptural works that weave together a narrative of important African American cultural figures. Icons such as James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Nina Simone, whose creative legacies center activism to address racial and economic injustice, are featured alongside significant contemporary figures who inspire Lugo. The sculptural portraits are Lugo’s own form of activism, highlighting the faces of heroes whose likenesses are the most unlikely to be depicted on fine porcelain of the European traditions.
