How to Cure a Diamond, or Goodbye Blue Monday

KENNY RIVERO (B. 1981)

How to Cure a Diamond, or Goodbye Blue Monday

flashe and gouache on paper

15 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (39.4 x 59.7 cm)

framed: 25 x 33 inches (63.5 x 83.8 cm)

Painted in 2019.

PROVENANCE:

Charles Moffett, New York

UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2020

EXHIBITED:

UTA Artist Space, In the Time of: Curated by Amanda Hunt, June-July 2020 (virtual exhibition)

NOTES:

Born in New York in 1981, Kenny Rivero works in richly layered paintings, collages, drawings, and sculptures that explore the fragmented nature of his Dominican American identity, reimagining personal and collective histories through symbolism, language and narrative imagery. Influenced by rhythms of salsa, hip-hop, house music and spiritual traditions like Vodun and Santería, Rivero’s work deconstructs inherited constructs of race, gender and belonging to build new, fluid realities.