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THURSDAY, JULY 28 AT 6PM
Live at the Archway
YUNIEL JIMÉNEZ BAND FEATURING NÉSTOR VILLAR
Art Exhibit by Marnie Fuller
Yuniel Jimenez "El Guajiro" (The Country Boy) is a singer-songwriter and a master tres player who came from Santa Clara, Cuba to New York City. He brought with him not only his tres-guitar, but a piece of the countryside of Cuba to the Big Apple. In 2012, he described his experiences in a single “Un Guajiro en Nueva York” which was also the title of his first album. The 12 track album depicts various life situations inside and outside of Cuba through the eyes of the Cuban singer-songwriter. In 2015, his second CD, called “Hay Gente Pa' To'....” was released. In 2017, “La Malicia” and “Hay Gente Pa´ To´” won the hearts of the people of Medellín, Colombia and were voted #1 songs for six consecutive weeks in Latinastereo Radio Station.
Néstor Villar is a Venezuelan born percussionist, drummer, producer and composer. He is an Afro-Cuban Conguero performing classic Cuban Music, Afro-Cuban folkloric, Venezuelan Gaita, Colombian Cumbria, Afro-Brazilian, Latin pop and all forms of Afro-Cuban salsa. He came to the US in 1995 and currently resides in Dumbo, Brooklyn. He plays the drum, conga, cajón, timbale, and bongo drums, among other percussion instruments. Néstor learned his craft in Bolivar, Venezuela performing and recording with his family’s band, Diamantés del Sur, since the age of 10. He has performed all over the globe. His most recent studio album is Machete with his salsa dura band, La Excelencia.
Marney Fuller lives in Brooklyn and her studio is located in Dumbo. She grew up in Southern California and Seattle. She received a BA from Western Washington University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Marney’s art is of fleeting habitat and changing boundaries. Her paintings are emotive landscapes about the relationship with nature. Her art heralds the pollinators and givers of life with the undercurrent of fleeting habitats. She celebrates the familiar; the creatures and plants that surround everyone everyday as superheroes. Her iconography is a microcosm of changing boundaries and the impermanence of the environment. Movement, light and time are characteristic of her art. Her paintings have layered surfaces and physically become timelines of process and progression. Fuller’s metal assemblage sculptures are emblems of nature’s small giants like the insects and the plants. The sculptures resemble large physical drawings that twist and scribble like pencil sketches. Her work is layered physically and with meaning to remind us of the urgency of preserving our beautiful world.
