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Cuban Artist Jairo Alfonso’s “Objectscapes” at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, one of the Top 12 NJ art exhibitions of year.-

By TRIS McCALL December 13, 2023

NJ Arts.Net

“Here was a truck, there was a dartboard, there was a motorcycle, here was a mattress and a foosball table. Over there was a beat-up Radio Shack synthesizer, a Vespa, a skateboard, a fan, a Darth Vader helmet, a toaster, a thousand other consumer items meticulously rendered in watercolor on a massive sheet of paper. Jairo Alfonso opened the door on the most crowded garage inhabitable: a repository of objects, crafts, heirlooms and other residue of human activity. […]”

Jairo Alfonso at CANY


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