The Arteur

  Juan Carlos Pinto (b. 1968) is a Guatemalan-born artist and art historian based in New York City. Having lived in Brooklyn for over 12 years, Carlos Pinto has made many public artworks, often creating with materials from the streets of New York, such as discarded glass, plastic, and pieces of pottery. Migration is a recurring theme throughout his work. Pinto leans towards motifs such as birds to portray the migration of animals and peoples across regions as a natural occurrence of life.  He is largely inspired by the birds he sees near his home in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Pinto’s works include portraits of celebrities and animals, mainly birds and fish. He renders them in collages created with recycled MTA MetroCards. His work encompasses other media such as tile work and painting. Pinto's striking mosaic collages serve as a response to an uptick in societal tensions related to migration, specifically relating to attitudes towards immigrants in New York City....

In his assemblage-style paintings, American artist Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) brings together his extensive formal training with his own observations and lived experience. Expressionistic swaths of paint, minimalist motifs, line drawings, and passages of vibrant color tangle with found objects, signs, and doors collected from his urban environment, creating unexpected visual rhymes and resonances that reward careful and sustained looking and allow for a vast and nuanced multiplicity of meanings.