Kaplan Gallery
February 24 – March 26, 2017
Opening Reception, Artist Talk: Friday, February 24, 7 – 9 PM
Special Event: Hands-on Gallery Experience – Esteban del Valle-inspired Collages, sign up HERE
About the artist: Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. He completed his M.F.A. in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. His work investigates the performance of leadership, the role of the artist as a public figure, and the effects of class and privilege on institutions in the form of paintings, murals, sculpture and video art.
He has exhibited internationally, working with galleries and organizations such as Urban Nation, Berlin, Germany; Fundacion-Taller Silvano Lora, Santo Domingo; Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC; and Superchief Gallery, New York, NY.
Del Valle has been the recipient of several visual arts residencies and fellowships including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fine Arts Work Center, and Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program. Most recently, he completed a summer residency at Chulitna Lodge in Lake Clark, Alaska and received a fellowship from the Arts Student League in New York. Del Valle executes mural projects internationally, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.