News Release: 6/20/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KinoSaito Presents The Unknown and Its Poetics
Curated by Adrián S. Bará
May 24 – December 15, 2025
Members-Only Opening Reception on May 24th, from 4-7 pm
Juan De La Cruz Sánchez, El Bosque, 1997, wool and cotton in Tapiz Gobellino technique, 3.86 x 2.14 m
Photo taken by Marco Antonio de la Cruz Cuahutle
Verplanck, NY (May 2025)- KinoSaito Art Center is pleased to feature a group exhibition, The Unknown and Its Poetics, curated by Adrián S. Bará.
“This exhibition presents a group of works by international artists that live or have lived away from their home country and have been impacted by cross-cultural influences. Artists whose abstract work engages experiences and identities related to the unknown and the construction of home.
As the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi once said, “Nothing is more abstract than reality.” The group of artists included in this survey share the ability to communicate the importance of the small poetic gesture, and explore what we call reality through the language of abstraction.
With works in a range of media, this exhibition will span throughout the art center and will address relationships between cultures, languages, political systems, life under globalization, individuality and liberation.”
- Adrián S. Bará
Participating Artists:
Emanuel Tovar Andrade, Adrián S. Bará, Peter Brock, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Edgar Cobián, Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Ricardo Gonzalez, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Elana Herzog, Melissa Joseph, Fawn Krieger, Liza Lacroix, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Pepe López Reus, Juan De La Cruz Sánchez, Lucía Vidales, Michael Kelly Williams, and Liat Yossifor.
For details on the exhibition, please visit: https://www.kinosaito.org/the-unknown-and-its-poetics. For more details on the members only opening reception, please visit https://www.kinosaito.org/may-2025-members-only-opening-reception. For any inquiries, contact KinoSaito’s Gallery Director, Megan Meadowlark, at megan@kinosaito.org or 914-293-7468.
KinoSaito
KinoSaito is a nonprofit center founded in 2018 and dedicated to the creation of abstract art. We are committed to nurturing art experimentation across all mediums and perpetuating the legacy of our founding muse and Japanese-American artist, Kikuo Saito (1939-2016). The center opened in 2021 upon renovation of its St. Patrick’s Catholic School located in Verplanck, NY. Since opening our doors, we have served an intergenerational audience of 3,500+ annually.
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KinoSaito Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 411 5th Ave Fl 7 | New York, NY 10016 | (212) 459-8800 | arts.ny.gov
