Gabriel Sosa transforms the 301 Gallery into a bodega storefront with Today’s Specials, an installation comprised of oversized hand-painted works on paper. Amidst the announcements for laundry detergent, apple juice, and sopa de res, you might be surprised at what else is on sale. Pointing to questions of subversion, gentrification, and the shortcomings of the American Dream, Sosa’s work reminds us to look a bit closer at the language that surrounds us.

Gabriel Sosa is a Cuban-American artist, educator, and linguist. He draws from legal proceedings, personal archives, and contemporary visual culture to explore the mutability of language, the imperfection of memory, and the misinterpretation of both. His work has been shown at the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Tufts University Art Galleries; Centro Cultural Español, Miami; La Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana; A R E A, Boston; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Raised in Miami and based in Boston, Gabriel is a lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Deputy Director of Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts.