Charles Juhasz—Alvarado: Complicated Stories Sculptures and Written Testimonies, 1998—2008
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, I-Scream (resist!), 2004
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories will present the artist’s past and present bodies of works as an ongoing dialogue on social consciousness and cultural identity. Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s elaborate site-specific installations engage the viewer through narrative, performance, audio, and sculpture to introduce a fantasy world that serves as an acute and humorous allegory of today’s multicultural society and the artist’s own background. The exhibition includes nine large-scale sculptural works including one piece commissioned for this exhibition, Winged Termite (2008). This piece references Leonardo daVinci’s “flying machines” and is modeled after the shape, proportions and mechanics of flying animals. This exhibition will be a vital opportunity to survey the work of this important contemporary artist and to introduce him to American audiences, where he has had limited exposure.