El Museo del Barrio opens “Retro-Active The Work of Rafael Ferrer”
NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio presents Retro/Active,
The Work
of Rafael Ferrer, the first solo exhibition in a museum to examine the
breadth
and depth of the artist’s influential production over the last 55 years,
will be
on view June 8 – August 22, 2010. The travelling retrospective, curated
by
Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio,
includes
approximately 100 works from the mid-1950s to the present in a vast
variety of
media including collage, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, and
mixed-media. It is part of El Museo’s FOCOS series, which highlights the
work of
mature, under-recognized, and groundbreaking artists.