PROJECTS Special Commission Recipient Héctor Arce-Espasas
PULSE Miami Beach is pleased to announce Héctor Arce-Espasas as the recipient of this year's PROJECTS Special Commission. Visitors to the fair's South Tent will be greeted by Arce-Espasas’ sculptural installation Ode to Paradise (Dancers), a series of his iconic ceramics positioned within a new environment created specifically for PULSE. The ceramic vessels featured in Ode to Paradise (Dancers) are reminiscent of the overflowing fruit bowls popular in 17th century Europe, which served as symbols of wealth and social class. Here, ripe fruit and tropical imagery coalesce with the body to create a visual meditation on the idea of the tropical paradise, encouraging visitors to imagine new realities, or rather, new fantasies.
About Héctor Arce-Espasas Arce-Espasas was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1982. He received an MFA from Hunter College in 2011 and a BFA from SAIC in 2005. Arce-Espasas was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist’s Grant, was a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship, and has participated in residencies such as the ISCP Residency, the AIM Program at The Bronx Museum, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency. Arce-Espasas hosts D’marquesina, a New York based Latin party.
