Agosto Machado: Exhibition at Gordon Robichaux

The installation at Gordon Robichaux features a group of Machado’s artworks exhibited for the first time: a self-portrait painted in the 1960s; a colorful plaster mask created and worn by the artist in numerous theatrical productions in the 1970s; and seven new shrine and altar sculptures which comprise artworks, ephemera, relics, and personal effects collected and preserved by the artist over the course of seven decades.

Alongside Machado’s work, the exhibition incorporates artworks and ephemera by Machado’s peers, among them, a painting by Caroline Goe, tin foil sculptures by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, a portrait of Machado by Uzi Parnes, and a poster for Ethyl Eichlberger’s Medea with photographs by Peter Hujar. Throughout, the installation and artworks evidence Machado’s ongoing archival practice dedicated to remembrance, activism, and community.

Agosto Machado, 1980 by Peter Hujar