Joachim West
Broken

june 1 - june 29, 2019
​​RO2 ART | the cedars
1501 south ervay street, Dallas, tx 75215

June, 2019
​Ro2 Art | Dallas, TX

Dallas, May 2019 - Ro2 Art is proud to present Broken, two solo exhibitions by artists Joachim West and Thor Johnson revolving around the theme Broken. The show will run from June 1  through June 29, 2019. Ro2 Art will hold an Artist Reception for West at their main gallery location in the Cedars neighborhood at 1501 S. Ervay St., Dallas, TX on Saturday, June 1 from 7 - 10 p.m.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Broken is an exhibition about the power of art composed in a non-classical narrative that follows the artist as he works to break down the walls of intolerance, fear and hatred by using his powers, the ability to make magical objects and to see the world in a unique way.

Broken is composed of two narratives that are intimately connected and intertwined.  The first of them is a literal narrative in the form of a mini-doc about the Jewish artist’s experience of returning to Spain to find his village covered in xenophobic, anti-Semitic graffiti and his search to uncover the underlying causes and to fight back against this extremism through his art.
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The second narrative plays out across the walls of the gallery whereupon the artist has a transforming encounter with inspiration by which he is gifted but also faces a psychological break.  Bombarded by visions of a dark world full of hatred and suffering, can he pull himself together to use his new-found powers of creation to make the world a better place?

ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Joachim West (Michael Joachim Westfried Soriano), a first-generation American of Spanish-Jewish descent, was born in Connecticut in 1985 and currently resides in Galveston, Texas.  Joachim earned an MFA in Producción Artística from La Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain and a BA in Art & Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Joachim's work has at times captured the attention of the press both nationally and internationally. His work has been featured on CBS News, Yahoo News, Channel 5 News UK, Artnet, the Dallas Morning News, The Independent, D Magazine, The Dallas Observer, Arts & Culture and numerous other publications. Joachim's work has been displayed at the Meadows Museum of Art and at various other private and public art spaces nationally and internationally. Joachim's work was included in a tribute show to Lee Baxter Davis at the Meadows Museum of Art, an artist whose teaching has produced artists such as Trenton Doyle Hancock, Gary Panter, Robyn O’neil and Georganne Deen.   Joachim has shown internationally and has been included in the Huntington Art Exhibition twice. He has been selected for solo shows, group and juried exhibitions in both the United States and outside of the United States, including exhibitions curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Wouter Van Loo, Benito Huerta, Aaron Parazette and Joan Davidow. His work was recently chosen for La Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Emergente Eve-Maria Zimmermann in Spain.