Reading the Public Space: Conversation with Gabriel Sosa

Urbano’s Winter 2021 Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Sosa presents a new body of drawings: graphite “rubbings” of letters and words found in public signage across his neighborhood in Boston, rearranged into textural compositions on paper and expressive phrases in Spanish and English. These dynamic works explore ideas of language, identity, memory, community, and our changing relationship to public space since the COVID-19 pandemic. Gabriel will be in conversation with Urbano staff about the drawings in the context of his larger public art practice, as well as his “Reading the Public Space” Urbano residency and project with teen artists, followed by an audience Q&A.

This conversation will be reproduced and distilled as a bilingual (Spanish & English) publication available in both digital and print format.