Miguel Luciano ‘Ride or Die’, Bric Brooklyn, until March 5, 2017
Luis Miguel Luciano, Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico 1972, Active in: New York
Run-a-bout, 2017.
About:
Miguel’s works — whether it be public art, sculpture, large-scale installation or paintings– challenges the assumption of the viewer to dispel cultural myths and stereotypes. In the end, most viewers leave his work with a changed mindset, new perspective, and the idea that we are more alike than we are different.(text the Agora Culture, 2015)
Double Phantom, 2017.
A prominent mid-career artist based in Brooklyn, Miguel Luciano works in multiple media to examine issues of cultural identity, politics, and popular culture. BRIC has commissioned Luciano to create new work – sculptures featuring customized vintage Schwinn bicycles – that commemorate the traditions of Puerto Rican bike clubs in New York.
Neither Bread nor Land nor Liberty, 2017
Porto Rican Cotton picker, 2011.
He will exhibit this work along with paintings and historic ephemera that question the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, at the centennial mark of U.S. Citizenship for Puerto Ricans (1917-2017). This body of work acts as a powerful commentary on the current economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico and examines its impact on the diaspora.(text Bric)