During our launch party we had the honor to meet our Online Contest winner Ruddy Mejia. He participated via Instagram and shared almost all of the pictures with the correct name of location and with hash tag #bxartsfactory.  We presented the winner with an original painting by artist and co-founder of BxArts Factory, Alexis Mendoza.  He also received an exclusive BxArts Factory T-shirt!  The t-shirt was printed live during the event by artists Alex Guerrero! It was indeed a magical night and we were able to reveal the names of all the locations around the Bronx, used for the contest! All the locations can be seen in the photos below.
The painting titled Oshun (1 (18), 2014, mixed media on canvas, 22″X20″) is one in the series of paintings “Organic Consequence”, orientation, directions are all placed in abeyance, but not so we can ogle paint drippings, color fields, or textual screams. Placing the basic, familiar attributes of things to one side, Mendoza discovers the essence of color presence. However, what defines presence is no longer explainable. He let color, hard dark lines, distance, desire the locus of the image and volume do the explanation, all these characteristics come together simultaneously, equally, and in terms of each other. The color, as it turned out, is the matrix of memory, and within it, the images surface, utopias and its denials.

 

On January 31st we started posting one picture a day at 6:00 p.m. for 12 days, of our logo at a historically or culturally significant Bronx location. Everyone who reposts at least 6 pictures with the correct answer and the hashtag #BxArtsFactory via Facebook, Instagram or Twitter will be eligible to win a one-of-a-kind piece of art from a Bronx artist and a BxArts Factory t-shirt at our launch event at The Bronx Museum of the Arts on Thursday, February 12, 2015.
If you haven’t started yet, what are you waiting for? Go to our Facebook, our Twitter or Instagram and go for it! We have only 2 days left.