Repeating Islands

Edge Zone Miami Art Center is presently hosting “A Fragmented Anomaly,” an exhibition by Teo Freytes and Luis Padreda. This show opened on July 10 and will be on view until July 31, 2010. In this exhibition, the artists display video, digital art work by Teo Freytes, and collages by Luis Padreda. Edge Zone is located at 47 NE 25th Street in Miami, Florida.

Teo Freytes, whose art practice spans over 30 years, was one of the first artists to use digital tools as an artistic medium. He is a well known and prolific artist who lives in Puerto Rico, where his works are part of the collection of Puerto Rico’s Museum of Contemporary Art [Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, MAC], the Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, and many private collections in Puerto Rico and abroad (I am lucky enough to have a few of his wonderful prints).

Freytes’ works include painting, sculpture, photography, engraving, and performance. In recent years he has focused almost mainly on digital art, creating a self-reflexive comment on the construction of images. One of the founders of MSA Experimental Space in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Freytes also hosts the art blog MSA-X (see http://msa-x.msa-x.org).

Cuban-born artist based in Miami, Luis Padreda, describes himself as a solo artist, “for his apparent absences in the art scene, but a present spirit in his observations of the ever present image around us.” His collages are an interesting combination of “cut-outs reassembled and re-reassembled [that] will delight and confuse the way you think and see.”

[Many thanks to Charo Oquet for providing additional information for this post.]

For more information, see http://www.edgezones.org/Edge_Zones/Edge_Zones.html

Also see information, photos of the exhibition, and Teo’s comic flip book at http://msa-x.msa-x.org/?p=2117