Kemper Museum of Temporary Art
October 5-December 30, 2007
Michael Vasquez's gestural multimedia paintings depict the vibrant and aggressive energy found in the artist's urban neighborhood.
Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and raised by a single mother, Vasquezportrays friends and acquaintances affiliated with various street gangs of Miami—at once capturing the established codes, hierarchies, and social dynamics inherent to gang culture and examining larger issues of identity, community, ritual, and the ill-conceived stereotypes that inform popular perception of urban youth today.
Trained as a painter at South Florida's acclaimed New World School of the Arts, Vasquez has exhibited widely in the United States.This is his first solo museum exhibition.
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