6th Street Container Gallery is currently hosting two solo exhibitions featuring artists Stephanie Cafcules and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz. The exhibitions will be on display until December 12, coinciding with Art Basel, the famous international art show.
Cafcules presents Fluid Dynamics, her continued investigation altering synthetic materials and exploring the dynamism of painting into sculpture. In the main gallery, Raimundi-Ortiz debuts GuerillerReina, the newest installment of her “Reinas” series.
Stephanie Cafcules is influenced by art history and inspired by textures and patterns in nature. Transformation of synthetic materials either physically or chemically is a main process throughout her work. Her ‘Pour’ series focuses on poured paint as sculptural paintings and painterly sculptures.
Cafcules is an emerging artist and M.F.A. Candidate at the University of Central Florida. She is president of the Knights Association of Visual Artists Club and winner of awards including the South Eastern Art Conference travel grant, 2nd place in the Spring Exposition at Infinity Art Gallery, Honorable Mention in the Junk or Genius exhibition at Gallore Gallery. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Visual Art and Design at UCF and manager of UCF’s downtown Gallery 500.
In the most recent addition to her REINA series, chamelion interdisciplinary artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz assumes the persona of warrior queen GuerilleReina, interrogating notions of power, authority, and honor.
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, performance art, installation, painting and spoken word. She has exhibited internationally at events and galleries including Rapid Pulse Perfomance Art Festival (Chicago), Gyongnam Art Museum (South Korea), Manifesta 8 (Spain) and Trampolim in Brazil. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Creative Capital’s “On Our Radar” 2013. Raimundi-Ortiz earned her M.F.A. at Rutgers University and is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alum. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at UCF.
Samples of her work can be found at wandaraimundi-ortiz.com