Artist Talk with Christopher Paz-Rivera, Sofía Shaula, and Alaina Claire Feldman

Friday, February 23, 6:45pm

In celebration of Christopher Paz-Rivera's solo exhibition Due Time in our Upstairs Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery invites you to a special evening of conversation. Paz-Rivera will be joined by artist Sofia Shaula for a conversation moderated by Alaina Claire Feldman.

February 23, 2024
  • Christopher Paz-Rivera was born in 1982, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The artist received his BFA from the University of Puerto Rico (2007) and his MFA from Hunter College in New York (2012). Paz-Rivera’s work was included in La Bienal 2013 at El Museo Del Barrio, New York. In addition the artist has exhibited at venues including Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Riverside Museum California, and Área Lugar De Proyectos, to name a few. In addition to his artistic practice, Paz-Rivera is co-founder of EMBAJADA, a prominent gallery based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has curated exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College to name a few.
  • Sofía Shaula Reeser-del Rio (b. 1989) is a New York-based Puerto Rican scholar, curator, multidisciplinary artist and educator. She currently...
    Sofía Shaula Reeser-del Rio (b. 1989) is a New York-based Puerto Rican scholar, curator, multidisciplinary artist and educator. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Programs and Curator at The Clemente Center. Since 2013, she has collaborated with the non-profit Mujeres de Islas in the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico, and has held positions at a wide range of cultural institutions such as El Museo del Barrio, Americas Society and the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling. Reeser has organized exhibitions at El Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Casa de Africa, Centro de Arte Julia de Burgos, Bronx Art Space, Latinx Project, and The Clemente Center, among others. Additionally, she has taught at Pratt Institute, infusing her curatorial practice with a global and academic perspective. In her work, Sofía weaves together social practice with sustainable and regenerative modes of belonging and producing, grounded in intersectionality, collaboration, and intergenerational art-making, storytelling, and archiving.
     
     
  • Alaina Claire Feldman is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY)...
    Alaina Claire Feldman is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) where she has organized solo and group exhibitions, performances, readings and film screenings with artists such as Minerva Cuevas, Juan Downey, Lamin Fofana, May Joseph, Zeena Parkins, Nicolas Premier, Jeff Preiss, Ho Tzu Nyen and more. She teaches in Baruch’s Fine and Performing Arts program and holds a degree in Art History and Critical Visual Studies from Pratt Institute and Social and Environmental Justice Studies from the Graduate Center.

    Her writing on art and political ecology has appeared in Afterall, Art Asia Pacific, Contemporary&, e-flux journal, Flash Art, PARSE, Texte zur Kunst and in catalogues for museums around the world. She is the editor of The Ocean After Nature and Nicolás Guagnini: Theatre of the Self, and managing editor of the Apichatpong Weerasethkul Sourcebook. Previously curated exhibitions include Peter Fend: HACE SENTIDO (Embajada, San Juan, 2018 w TV GOV) a project interrogating the environmental predatory “shock doctrine” of a post-Maria Puerto Rico, as well as Cherchez la femme/Maso et Miso Vont en Bateau (The Kitchen, New York, 2012 and Space, London, 2014). With Macarena Gómez-Barris, she was awarded a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.