


Witness Revelator (Hand-Embellished, Edition 2 of 10)
2924
In "Witness Revelator," a solitary figure strides or surges forward against a concrete brick wall, while a shadowy presence hovers just behind him, both subjects enveloped beneath a long, starry cape that transforms the looming figure into something between guardian and specter. The composition is deliberately spare, yet the setting carries layered geographic resonance, evoking the street-level textures of New York City and the spiritual atmosphere of the Dominican Republic simultaneously. That duality is central to Kenny Rivero's practice, which deconstructs fractured narratives of Dominican-American identity, race, gender, and community through imagery that is at once visceral and mythic. The work draws directly from a childhood in Washington Heights during a period of concentrated street violence and the crack epidemic, and the haunting figure overhead reads not as a threat but as a form of witness, a presence that holds memory, fear, and resilience in equal measure. Rivero works across painting, collage, drawing, and sculpture, drawing on the hybrid cultural energies of salsa, hip-hop, merengue, house music, and jazz alongside the spiritual traditions of Vodun and Santeria that shaped daily life in his upbringing. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, affirming his standing as one of the more significant voices examining Afro-Caribbean and urban American identity today. This hand-embellished archival pigment print, issued in a tightly limited edition of ten and signed and numbered by the artist, offers collectors a rare point of entry into an iconography that is both personally rooted and culturally expansive.
- Medium
- Archival Pigment Print
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- ART FOR CHANGE, Brooklyn, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · ART FOR CHANGEView on map
For Sale — $2000
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