BORIMIX | SHARING THE SPOTLOGHT
SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT
A series of talks by 5 emerging Latinx photographers
Organized in conjunction w. Maximo Rafael Colón BORIMIX 2025 “Storied LENS” exhibition @ LATEA’s Tamayo Gallery with the support of Historias/LXNY. Co-curated by Miguel & Mercedes Trelles
Saturday, Dec. 14
Artist talk: Maylyn “Zero” Iglesias
Iglesias is a Nuyorican photographer, educator, archivist and curator born and raised on the Lower East Side. Her early sensibilities were formed in New York City by 1980’s graffiti, hip hop, punk and her mother’s Salsa and Supremes records. She graduated from LaGuardia Community College with an Associates Degree in Commercial Photography. Iglesias’ work is focused on her beloved Loisaida with the aim of documenting remnants of the quickly disappearing Nuyorican culture that once thrived so boldly in her youth. Her personal project, “What’s It Mean to be Nuyorican” was added to the LaGuardia Wagner Archives in 2021. During that time she joined the Loisaida Center to head their newly-launched archive program, which was created to preserve the history of LES photographers, poets, musicians and neighborhood leaders and activists. Among the photographers whose work Iglesias is digitizing is Marlis Momber’s photographs. Her own art and photography has been shown in New York, New Orleans and London. Maylyn has co-taught photography workshops and been a teaching and darkroom assistant at ICP, the Free Film Project and the Josephine Herrick Project.
SI_Energies | Collective Walking and Mapping for Teens and Young Adults
Image: Residents on the roof at 519 E 11th Street, photo by Jon Naar.
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home is curated by Danilo Machado and Maggie Wrigley. The title is inspired by Barbara Streisand's cover of the standard on her second album. The exhibition considers home making as an ephemeral, collective practice-transformative yet vulnerable.
Featuring:
Al Blue, John Farris, Maylyn 'Zero' Iglesias, James Romberger, Amy Westpfahl and Maggie Wrigley
TRANSIT TALES
TRANSIT TALES
JUNE 14 - JULY 19, 2024
ABC NO RIO IN EXILE AT UMBRELLA HOUSE
21 AVENUE C (bet. 2nd + 3rd) - NYC
Opening Friday June 14 at 6:00pm
Viewing Hours: Fri 5-7pm; Sat + Sun 1-4pm
With work by Don Alman, Rowynn Dumont, Gavin Marcus, Andy Wilhelm, Robert Goldkind, Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesias, Mark Power, C.Y. Chen, Will Kaplan, Matt Reekie, Amanda Wu, and Yasmeen Abdallah.
Curated by Yasmeen Abdallah and Robert Goldkind
Exhibition supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City State Council on the Arts.
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THE COLOR RED
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
SMALL WORLDS
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
CONSTANT/CONSTANTE
CONSTANT | CONSTANTE emerges as a photographic journey through the lens of Marlis Momber and Maylyn “Zero” Iglesias, venerable artist-activists entrenched in the heartbeat of the Lower East Side, NYC. Illuminating impermanence, their photographs transcend time, resurrecting vanished fragments of the LES, echoing in their minds. From the early 1970s to the present, their images are a visual narrative where resilient families thrive amidst the upheaval of cultural battles that have endured for generations.
Marlis and Maylyn, artists intertwined in friendship and mentorship, epitomize the ceaseless spirit of LES. Their shared journey, a visual call, and response, paints a portrait where beautiful brown bodies and big city blocks blend from one scene to the next, making it seem like they documented a whole era in one long-spirited day. From vacant lots to writers tagging on the wall, their work stitches together a narrative where chaos unravels into clarity. This exhibition is the first time they present work together after several years of working closely with Loisaida, Inc. The photographs on display are on loan from Loisaida Inc, in collaboration with The AWWW Collective, producers and curators of this exhibit.
UPROOTED
Uprooted explores the disconnect immigrants, migrants and the children of immigrants experience in the multitude of spaces and cultures they occupy. We’ve gathered multiple lens-based artists that have developed projects exploring their roots. Through their work, we are able to see the impact immigration has on people from varying backgrounds. We are able to see the different ways in which artists acknowledge and honor their ancestry.
The exhibition highlights themes of identity, ancestry, assimilation, erasure, and belonging through the lens of multiple New York City based photographers. Through exhibition, the collective diaspora is actively reclaiming their roots, challenging and redefining what it means to be American, exploring methods in which the celebration of multiculturalism can keep customs intact, and honoring their collective diversity.
ANYTHING GOES
Flyer image by Judyta Grudzien
Anything Goes joins together present and former LaGuardia Community College students to celebrate their passion for photography and their need to communicate and find some semblance of sanity in an increasingly insane world. This eclectic mix of personalities and styles culminates in a chaotic body of work in the tradition of the DIY ethos.
Participating artists:
Eric Fennell, Josue Mendoza, Jeremy Orozco, Shoshanna Soleyn, Phillip Thompson, Summer Walker. Diva Martinez, Judyta Grudzien, Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesias, JPC