CHEMI ROSADO-SEIJO: COMUNIDADES EN MOVIMIENTO
01.29.20 -04.08.20
This was the first solo exhibition on the mainland of Rosado-Seijo (American b. 1973, lives San Juan), a celebrated voice in the field of social practice. Known for orchestrating lasting interventions and creative collaborations in his native Puerto Rico and around the world, Rosado-Seijo is equal parts artist and community organizer. He makes art objects and makes a difference. Photographs and a new film document nearly twenty years of his socially engaged projects in and around San Juan. Additionally on view will be new paintings, video, collage and sculpture made in partnership with Washingtonians. These new works illustrate the link between Rosado-Seijo’s two great passions: contemporary art and skateboarding. Photographs and videos documenting Rosado-Seijo’s longest running social intervention, El Cerro; filled Georgetown U’s Spagnuolo Gallery. Since 2002 he has worked closely with residents of this hillside neighborhood. Initially the artist organized efforts to beautify the area partnering with residents to paint houses in various shades of green matching the landscape and creating, at a distance, an abstract painting. This effort sparked subsequent projects.