CONTACT US — LAZO

LAZO fomenta diálogo entre artistas que trabajan en Nueva York y en ciudades de América Latina. | LAZO fosters dialogue among artists working in New York and in Latin American cities.

For more information please email us at openlazo.nyc@gmail.com or send us a message through the form below:

During the next few months we will be based at The Loisaida Center at 710 East 9th Street in Manhattan:

You can find us on instagram as well:

Powerful article by Anna Parisi.
Repost from @aluparisi for @latinxspaces reflecting upon the differences and similarities between the protests in USA and Brazil. Link in bio! Thank you Aaron, @tatianeschilaro & @maalva_studio
photographs by @la

A POLITICS OF CONTAGION: AN INTERVIEW WITH SILVIO LANG by Leandro Martínez Depietri featured on @latinxspaces
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“Speaking of Silvio’s work is actually speaking of an overlapping of practices and of people. Although Silvio is a&nbsp

Repost from @hehgallery
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AN HOUR SESSION OF THE UPTOWN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY. TODAY FRIDAY JUNE 12th from 2:00pm to 3:00pm Link @hehgallery .
Special guest presenters will be artists Juan Sánchez & Thomas Allen Harris who will each discu

Thank you @egeriksen for sharing this incredible resource, a compilation of texts carefully put together by Milly Cai @eggrll about Race Theory, Anti-Racist Literature, and Art Theory. It can all be found on a google drive link shared in our bio.

We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Movement and national protests against the murder of George Floyd.
List of organizations responding to the unfolding crisis posted by @simoneyevetteleigh (swipe right). #georgefloyd #blacklivesmatter #n

Mauricio Cortes | LAZO collaborator, artist and educator based in NY. Born in Saltillo, Mexico | Still life stories, mix media on panel, 2017. @maalva_studio #proudfather #morandi #stilllife #painting #saltillo #norteño

Check out the new work installation of Brazilian artist @julio_villani, who has hung six black cloths protesting Jair Bolsonaro on the façade of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris. The banners symbolise his “ongoing determination, revolt and despa

#TBT #highlights from inaugural LAZO exhibition opening at the Loisaida Center| January 2019: •

Featured works by @bernadettedespujols @omarbarquet
Supported at its ends—Hanging by its weight ‘A line that loops around itself holds

Incredible murals by José Clemente Orozco, painted in 1940 inside the Gabino Ortiz Library (formerly a church) in Jiquilpan, Mexico.
#mexicanrevolution #orozco #jiquilpan #michoacan #pueblomagico✨

‘Signs of the Americas, A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu’ is a profound book by poet and scholar of hemispheric literatures, Edgar Garcia.
Recently published by @uchicagopress, Garcia’s book examines how sign-system

Armando Rumayor | An Artist to Remember
Nació el 12 de Febrero de 1942 en Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico y murió el 14 de Abril 2008 en Nueva York.

Armando was born in 1942 in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo, Coahuila. He passed awa

#TBT Poster from LAZO screening @loisaidainc.center in 2019 | Image still from Ana Vaz’s ‘Occidente’, 2014 | 16mm/ HD Video, 00:15:00 | Clip from the screening of Rodrigo Valenzuela’s ‘Tertiary’, 2018 | HD digital

3nós3 was a Brazilian collective formed by artists Hudinilson Jr., Mario Ramiro, and Rafael França working in São Paulo between 1979 and 1982. The group saw the city as an active surface for #intervention and political criticism in everyday urban

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez, co-founder of LAZO, is a visual artist and educator, born in the US to parents from Argentina and Chile and currently based in NYC. Claudia’s work focuses on recording objects and patterns from urban and domest

LAZO is excited to develop a series of mail art correspondences between artists based in Latin America and artists in NY. Updates on the correspondences soon to follow!
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“Huitzilopochtli – Jesús”. Representación de estas dos deid

Feliz día de las madres, happy mother's day to all the mothers, and artist mothers! ✨🌺✨ .
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Lygia Clark, Caminhando (Walking). 1963 .
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‘The love I feel for my children is unique in my experience. Nothing is comparable. But it occurs to me t

We’ve updated our list of resources to support artists on LAZO’s website. Link in bio. Stay well everyone 💙💙💙
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#covid19 #ArtistResources #openlazo

Browsing an amazing digital archive of over 8,000 documents on 20th and 21st century Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Art at the @mfahouston 🔥find the link at icaa.mfah.org
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#sundayinspo #latinxart #openlazo

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@maalva_studio had the opportunity to speak to Libertad Guerra, the new Executive Director of @theclemente about the importance of cultural centers for neighborhoods, communities and the city. It’s an extremely

LAZO has compiled an ongoing list of resources for artists in response to the COVID-19 outbreak which we will be adding to regularly. We hope this list will serve as a guide for artists seeking support during this time. Link in bio.
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#covi̇d19 #Arti