Pedro Velez
Protest the Press, 2014
Acrylic, graphite, sharpie on HELL in LAMB UC poster
37 x 22 inches
His first exhibition with moniquemeloche, Pedro Vélez activates the “on the wall” project space with #DrunkDictators in an extension of his project for the Whitney Biennial 2014.
An art critic as well as an artist, Vélez creates a visual essay in which art journalism, social media, beauty, race and political corruption collide. #DrunkDictators is a cryptic riddle, mimicking the way the majority of art critics distribute information, ideas and judgment. Combining text sourced from various art reviews with images of models (fellow artists/critics/editors/friends), he creates a simultaneously optimistic and fatalistic dynamic amid stream-of-consciousness.
