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Exhibitions
Andrew Arocho: The Passage
Opens Thursday, October 1, 6-8pm
About the Exhibition
The gallery becomes a full-scale installation of layered, gestural paintings alongside reclaimed maritime materials such as weathered wood, sailcloth, and metal sourced from boats and ships. Arocho’s work centers on navigation without certainty, embracing drift, interruption, and the unknown. By integrating material history with abstraction, the exhibition creates a space where viewers can reflect on their own sense of movement, direction, and experience within an ever-shifting landscape.
“Sea Embers” (acrylic, oil pastel, ink, cement, rope, and mainsail on canvas, 2024.)
First Thursday Open House
Thursday, October 1, 6-8pm
About the Artist
Andrew Arocho (b. 1994, New York, USA) is a Miami-based artist of Puerto Rican heritage. He lives and works in Miami, Florida. He is an abstract expressionist whose work is inspired by the idea of a journey, or what he calls “The Voyage” the understanding that while we may set a course, unexpected paths inevitably emerge.
A central aspect of Arocho’s practice is the use of reclaimed maritime materials, including wood, sailcloth, rope, and metal salvaged from retired vessels and coastal environments. Through the act of repurposing these materials, he extends their lifecycle while honoring the histories embedded within them. Weathered by labor, travel, and the sea, they become integral to his work, embodying themes of transformation, memory, sustainability, and our enduring relationship with the natural environment. Together, the paintings and reclaimed materials create immersive works that merge abstraction with material history, where intuition, environmental consciousness, and the physical remnants of human journeys coexist.
