Cruising the Horizon: New York
February 11, 2021 - May 14, 2021, curated by Marissa Del Toro
Featuring artists: Amy Bravo, Beatriz Cortez, Marco DaSilva, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, rafa esparza, ray ferreira, Xandra Ibarra, Angel Lartigue, Cydnei Mallory, Guadalupe Maravilla, Leslie Martinez, mujero, Moises Salazar, and Sarah Zapata
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into...”
– Rod Sterling, from The Twilight Zone
The exhibition is laid out as a bird’s eye view of what it would be in a physical gallery space. For best viewing, please access the exhibition from your desktop. Each artwork links to the artist pages with more image details and biographies. Below in the resource section is a gallery aid with select detailed information on the layout and each of the artworks.
Cruising the Horizon: New York, is a vessel for radical imagination and existence to be shared and witnessed as a way for different worlds and realities to be experienced while revealing “that the “here and now” is simply not enough.” The works in this virtual exhibition move viewers to exist and express themselves freely and radically, without the oppressive conditions, restrictions, and boundaries of normative expectations and performances, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, majoritarian belonging, white supremacy and authoritarian systems. Now, more than ever, there is a greater need to continue generating and presenting experimental thoughts and radical modes of existence.
Patron Ghost of Open Skies (Thunderclap!)
The exhibition is influenced by José Esteban Muñoz, renowned art critic and queer theorist, and his book Cruising Utopia, where he writes that the “here and now is a prison house” and simply not enough. Muñoz calls for dreams and imaginations to drive us forward to a future “then and there,” where true queerness and “greater openness to the world” exists.
Curated by Marissa Del Toro, Cruising the Horizon: New York, offers hope and seeks to bridge a dialogue on the potentialities of ‘what can be’ by presenting the visionary works from the following artists: Amy Bravo, Beatriz Cortez, Marco DaSilva, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, rafa esparza, ray ferreira, Xandra Ibarra, Angel Lartigue, Cydnei Mallory, Guadalupe Maravilla, Leslie Martinez, mujero, Moises Salazar, and Sarah Zapata. Included artists explore layers of radical imagination and futurity through video, sculpture, painting, and craft aesthetics in relation to the body, queerness, and cultural identity.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a forthcoming illustrated publication featuring texts written by the exhibition curator and art historian, Marissa Del Toro, with an additional essay by Raquel Gutiérrez, a writer, performer, chapbook publisher, and public speaker currently based in Tucson, Arizona. Catalog and promo materials for the exhibition were designed by Illkya Acosta, a multi-disciplinary graphic designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Exhibition Aid
Resources
The Artists
Amy Bravo
Beatriz Cortez
Marco DaSilva
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski
rafa esparza
ray Ferreira
Xandra Ibarra
Angel Lartigue
Cydnei Mallory
Guadalupe Maravilla
Leslie Martinez
mujero
Moises Salazar
Sarah Zapata
About the Curator
Marissa Del Toro is an independent curator and art historian of contemporary, modern, and ancient art of the Americas (primarily Latin America and the US). In both her professional and personal life, she continues to work towards the promotion and advocacy for diverse narratives within art. Del Toro is currently guest curating the upcoming exhibition, Cruising the Horizon: New York at The Latinx Project NYU in Spring 2021 and is the co-curator of the upcoming traveling exhibition, Xican-a.o.x. Body. She was recently the DAMLI Curatorial Fellow at Phoenix Art Museum from 2018-2020 where she was the project manager for the exhibition catalog and mid-career survey of Teresita Fernández: Elemental, co-organized with Pérez Art Museum, Miami. She previously held positions at Santa Barbara Museum of Art from 2017-2018; the Getty Research Institute as a Graduate Intern from 2016-2017; UTSA Art Gallery as the Curatorial Assistant Intern from 2014 to 2015. In July 2015, she participated in the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian Latino Center. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with her MA in Art History and is originally from Southern California, where she received her BA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside.