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NYC-based Dominican-American visual artist and musician Kenny Rivero (b. 1981) and Charles Moffett, Director of Charles Moffett Gallery, discuss Rivero’s work and his first solo museum exhibition, "Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers," on view at BMAC through June 13, 2021. Rivero and Moffett are joined by artist Michael Jevon Demps, whose multidisciplinary work exploring the nature of being and Black interior lives echoes Rivero’s interests in identity, personal history, and memory.

Curated by Sarah Freeman, the exhibition reveals Rivero’s lifelong fascination with the meaning and histories of everyday objects and his passion for collecting discarded material. According to Rivero, the works on view at BMAC explore death, violence, fear, faith, spirituality, war, and magic. The setting is an abstracted landscape informed by the people, architecture, culture, and aesthetics of Washington Heights in New York and the Dominican Republic.

KENNY RIVERO: PALM OIL, RUM, HONEY, YELLOW FLOWERS is on view at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center March 18-June 13, 2021 and virutally at www.brattleboromuseum.org.