In the Main Gallery

Gustavo Roman

yet nightly pitch my moving tent

January 9- February 6, 2010

Closing Reception February 13, 2010, 7-10pm


In the Annex

Shelter Serra

Dark Castle

January 9- February 6, 2010

Closing Reception February 13, 2010, 7-10pm

In the project room

Karelle Levy

Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weave

February 13- March 6, 2010

Reception February 13, 2010, 7-10pm

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Gustavo Roman's Yet Nightly Pitch My Moving Tent, Shelter Serra's Dark Castle and Karelle Levy's Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weave.

In the main gallery, Gustavo Roman explores the psychological and physical correlation of sexuality.  In Yet Nightly Pitch My Moving Tent, through unequivocal implication of the male form, the artist exaggerates sensuality to the point of undermining manliness.  White bedspreads emerge from the darkness and float on a black background as a spectral appearance awakens underneath, pitching a "tent".  The small scale of the drawings forces the viewer to become intimate with Roman's drawings and their suggestion.

Gustavo Roman was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974 and currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.  He received a Bachelor of Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico in 1999, and a Masters of Fine Arts from Florida International University in 2007.

In the David Castillo Annex, Shelter Serra will present a new sculpture alongside a series of paintings and drawings inspired by the process of digital technology and archetypes of mass media.  In Dark Castle, Serra reproduces a Disney-esque Cinderella sand castle in black marble suggesting the permanence and ephemeral state of consumerism.  Serra's new paintings and drawings comment on the filtering of information and the notion of serialty.  By blurring the line between hand-made and digitally created art, Serra invites the audience to examine technology's role as a determiner of our visual environment.

Shelter Serra was born in Bolinas, California in 1972.  He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994 and his Master in Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 1996.  The artist has exhibited nationally and internationally.  He currently lives and works in New York City.

In the project room, Karelle Levy's site-specific installation, Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weave, examines the tortuous connections we cultivate.  Unlike a traditional spider's web constructed in ever-widening circles, Levy meticulously shredded her hand-knit fabrics to create a web that reveals a non-linear entanglement of experiences.  Similar to its counterpart in nature, Levy's web is gossamer and oftentimes so delicate as to be invisible.  The space will go from illumination to complete darkness, causing threads to shift their hues and creating a labyrinthine three-dimensionality; this dichotomy fashions new notions of interconnectivity, both socially and spatially.

Acclaimed for her Miami-based knitwear line, KRELwear and traveling performance project, KREL 2 go, Karelle Levy was born in Paris, and raised in Miami.  She studied textile design at Rhode Island School of Design, which led to knitting fabrics as wearable art and costumes.  Karelle Levy's work has been seen in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Harper's Bazar en Espanol, among many others.