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You must catch “Home Grown Premonitions,” a new solo show at Boricua College by New York-based Puerto Rican artist Phyllis Sanfiorenzo showing during Puerto Rican Heritage Month.

The exhibition features a selection of classically inspired parody portrait paintings in oil, illustrations, and drawings meant to engage familiar Renaissance metaphors. 

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The characters of the Art Student’s League trained artist’s work are both figurative and symbolic and are intended to ground toward a deeper level of acceptance.

The above painting, Caribe Cool, (oil on wood with gold leaf) is of the artist’s son, Dimas and it features strong Indio characteristics mixed with the colonial Spanish attributes.

Dimas, like all the artist’s subjects in the show, is draped in cloth made of silk, foliage and feather, revealing untold fortunes and inherited fruit as a result of the cataclysmic meeting of three distinct African, Spanish and Indigenous cultures.

Through her paintings and sculptures, the artist dedicates her one-person exhibition to those born of the land.  

“Home Grown Premonitions” opens tonight and runs through December 16th. To learn more about the artist, visit her website.

La Galeria, Boricua College

Manhattan Campus

3755 Broadway (155th Street)

New York City