Join your fellow ARLIS/NA New York members for a curator-guided tour of Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar, on Thursday, March 27, at 3:50 PM. The 45 minute-long tour will be held at Poster House and led by Es-pranza Humphrey, Assistant Curator of Collections. The tour will be followed by an introduction to Poster House's Rene Wanner Research Library.
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America.
This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history of Puerto Rico, encompassing elements of Taíno, Spanish, and African cultures as well as the rising tensions between tradition and modernity under the Luis Muñoz Marín government. His influence is so extensive that today he is known as the father of the Puerto Rican poster.
The tour will be capped at 25 participants and registration is limited to members of ARLIS/NA's New York Chapter. We will meet for the tour in the lobby of Poster House.
If you have any questions about the tour, feel free to reach out to Joey Vincennie, Programming Coordinator at vincennie@frick.org.
(Lorenzo Homar, Gran Baile Anual de la Federación de Músicos de Puerto Rico (Grand Annual Ball of the Federation of Musicians of Puerto Rico), 1964)
ID: A colorful poster of a trumpet player announcing the Grand Annual Ball of the Federation of Musicians of Puerto Rico.
