
Witness Revelator (Signed and Numbered, Limited Edition Print)
2924
"Witness Revelator" places a solitary figure mid-motion before a concrete brick wall, his body caught between flight and emergence. Behind him, a larger shadowy presence looms beneath a long, star-covered cape that drapes across both figures, suggesting a spirit that watches, guards, or perhaps claims the man in the foreground. The setting is spare and deliberately non-specific, yet it carries the weight of two worlds simultaneously: the street-level urban landscape of New York City and the cultural geography of the Dominican Republic. That dual resonance is central to Kenny Rivero's practice, which draws on the fractured and layered narratives of Dominican-American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, race, and gender to build imagery that feels at once personal and mythological. Rivero was raised in Washington Heights and is currently based in the Bronx, and his work is shaped by the hybrid cultural forms he absorbed growing up, including salsa, hip-hop, merengue, house music, and jazz, alongside the spiritual traditions of Vodun and Santeria that were present in daily life. "Witness Revelator" belongs to a body of work rooted in a childhood fear formed during years when his neighborhood bore a disproportionate burden of street violence and the crack epidemic. Rather than simply documenting that fear, the work transforms it, centering the resilience and spiritual presence of the community that endured those conditions. This archival pigment print is offered as a signed and numbered edition of 20, produced at 59.1 by 50.8 centimeters, and represents an accessible point of entry into a practice held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
- Medium
- Archival Pigment Print
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- ART FOR CHANGE, Brooklyn, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · ART FOR CHANGEView on map
For Sale — $1000
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