After The Deluge: South Beach

Anna-Denise Miranda serves as lovely and daring subject for Carlos Betancourt's The Deluge: the artist and his spontaneous subject. Carlos grabbed his camera during Friday's wild storm and took to the streets of South Beach to shoot. It's lovely. It's not something you can see on his website. It's carlosbetancourt.com - it's just something he posted on Facebook. And you gotta be his friend to see it. My wife is and i snuck a peak then had her ask him if we could post a few here. Dangerous. But Striking. Here's a couple pics to make your sunny day.

My Heros Have Always Been...

Brooklyn Based/Mexico City born artist Dulce Pinzon's work in The Real Story of the Superheros is best explained in her artist's statement, an excerpt from which is below:

The Mexican immigrant worker in New York is a perfect example of the hero who has gone unnoticed. It is common for a Mexican worker in New York to work extraordinary hours in extreme conditions for very low wages which are saved at great cost and sacrifice and sent to families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive.

The Mexican economy has quietly become dependent on the money sent from workers in the US. Conversely, the US economy has quietly become dependent on the labor of Mexican immigrants. Along with the depth of their sacrifice, it is the quietness of this dependence which makes Mexican immigrant workers a subject of interest.

The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.

Kara Walker

I Learned about Kara Walker years ago through my boy George Sanchez, who was a classmate of hers at RISD. He had a couple of pieces by her and sang her praises at every opp. For our $ the best American artist around. Here's what the NYtimes had to say bout her one woman show at the Whitney.