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Rubin Gallery
September 26 - December 13, 2019
“Brian Maguire is an artist of singular yet expansive vision: an activist, correspondent and a voice for dispossessed and marginalized individuals often considered dispensable by the rest of society. Since the onset of his professional career four decades ago, Maguire has been an instigator of numerous interactive projects with prisoners, refugees, and survivors; the artist’s practice is inseparable from his commitment to the community with whom he feels in service, navigating an often precarious exchange subject to the scrutiny of the public opinion under which it must operate.” [1]
[1] From the Foreword to Brian Maguire, Published by Fergus McCaffery, New York and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, October 2018.
The exhibition Scenes of Absence is a cross-border collaboration between the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts and Museo de Arte Ciudad Juarez, where a complementary series of works will be on display from September 20th – November 24th. The cross-border nature of this exhibition reflects the ways in which the subject matter in Maguire’s paintings connect us, not only in our complicity but also our humanity.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generosity and collaboration of the following individuals and institutionsCulture Ireland • Fergus McCaffery Gallery, New York • Gobierno de México • Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura • Kerlin Gallery, Dublin • Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez • Secretaría de Cultura de México • Texas Commission for the Arts • Tia Foundation • Art Green • Christian Groenke • Klaus Groenke • Marisela Ortíz
