03/31/2025. We are pleased to announce that Blas Isasi will participate in The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home: Selections From Prospect.6 New Orleans, a group show curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson to open on May 23 at MCA Denver.
03/17/2025. A piece on Blas Isasi by Violet Bucaro appeared in The Maroon, Loyola University New Orleans´s newspaper.
03/17/2025. We are pleased to announce that Blas Isasi has been appointed Assistant Professor in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He will be joining UNCG´s College of Visual and Performing Arts this fall.
02/27/2025. An artist profile on Isasi by Lee Cutrone appeared in New Orleans Homes magazine Spring edition.
”…Artist Blas Isasi is obsessed with the history of his native Peru and what he sees as its infinite effects. For Prospect 6 (which ended last month), he leaned into his research on the subject to create an installation entitled “1,001,532 CE,” a futuristic look at how the fall of the Incan Empire continues to send ripples into the world.”
02/18/2025. Joe Craig reviews Isasi´s 1,001,532 CE for Number:Inc.
”…During a four-month period after the occurrence at Cajamarca… all of the ransacked objects containing precious metals—a collection of forty thousand pounds of Inca gold and silver—were fed into furnaces, turning unique Incan artifacts into standardized ingots. This process of homogenizing and coding material for trade is the inverse of Isasi's art. Isasi endeavors to re-animate his materials—whether foam, steel, wood, or clay. His installation is a decisive rebuke to the aftermath of the Cajamarca Encounter…”
02/13/2025. As part of its Spring 2025 Public Lecture Series, Isasi was invited to give an artist talk at WashU Sam Fox School on January 30. You can now watch his full presentation in the school´s YouTube channel.
02/07/2025. Yashira Davalos reviews Blas Isasi´s 1,001,532 CE and Didier William´s Gesture to home for Prospect.6, New Orleans.
"…Perhaps as Prospect’s harbinger is searching for home, it’s suggesting that the temporalities of time and site require a visual context for what ground zero means. And what it would take to alchemize into a state that is uninterrupted by man. For home in pantomime, may only exist in the diasporic body’s performance. History can not be rewritten, and must be resurfaced to continue, the day ecology takes over. A very important lesson narrated by New Orleans herself."
02/01/2025. A review by Veronica Cross on Isasi´s P.6 project 1,001,532 CE appeared in Antigravity´s February edition.
01/23/2025. Blas Isasi´s 1,001,532 CE project was mentioned in Benjamin Suttton´s review of Prospect.6 for The Art Newspaper. The full article titled New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future can be read online.
11/12/2024. You can now read an interview (in Spanish) with Blas Isasi on his Prospect.6 project in Vocablo, an online Peruvian contemporary art publication.
10/29/2024. We are proud to announce that Blas Isasi has been awarded the 2024-25 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship. He will be joining Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts for the 2025 Spring semester to teach a course of his design while working toward his first institutional solo exhibition in the US at the Saint Louis Museum of Art (SLAM).
08/29/2024. The New Orleans Advocate´s magazine Adore, included Blas Isasi in its 2024 “A-List”: a selection of fifteen “…local visionaries… from artists to athletes to philanthropists to CEO´s… individuals with big dreams for themselves, their fields, and the city…” (Michaela Bechler and Marigny Lanaux, Adore, August 2024).
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01/25/2024. We are pleased to announce that Blas Isasi will be in the sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans. Curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, Prospect 6, the future is present, the harbinger is home, will open to the public on November 2, 2024.
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