# Event Details - **Event Name**: Gallery Talk: Vital & Veiled- With Mónica Amor and Jesús Fuenmayor - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Curator and special guest present on the exhibition "Vital and Veiled: Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández"About this EventJoin Mónica Amor and Jesús Fuenmayor for a lively conversation about the careers of Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández, the two Caribbean/Latin American artists featured in Vital and Veiled. Together, they’ll explore how the artists’ paths crossed and how each developed a distinct sculptural language rooted in abstraction and sensuality, ultimately producing strikingly different results. Fuenmayor brings more than thirty-five years of international curatorial experience, and Amor is a leading scholar of modern and contemporary art whose work centers on global dialogue and cultural representation. Expect insight, context, and fresh perspectives on two remarkable artistic journeys.Thursday, 6:00- 7:00pmAbout the exhibition:Curated by Jesús Fuenmayor, this exhibition explores how two pioneering sculptors, Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández, reveal how abstraction can speak to identity, sensuality, and the complicated histories that shape the Americas. Trinidad-born Brathwaite channels the landscapes of her childhood and the ecological tensions of urban life into luminous organic forms. Her stones, flowers, and “soft bodies” pulse with the sensual vitality of nature, shaped from clay, plaster, cement, fabric, and color that suggest both the Caribbean’s exuberance and its fragility.Fernández, born in Caracas, turns to the stylized gestures and physicality of bullfighting to explore masculinity and the veiled layers of homoeroticism embedded within it. His ultra-modern sculptural abstractions—derived from the curves, tension, and theatricality of the capote (bullfighter’s cape)—reveal identity as something performed, coded, and concealed. Together, the artists demonstrate how form bore personal and cultural histories long before such concerns were named or theorized as identity politics.Brathwaite and Fernández invite viewers to slow down and consider how abstraction absorbs the forces that shape life. Their practices show that form is never neutral; it is charged with lived experience and shaped by the worlds the artists carry with them.This event will be held in-person at the museum.Please direct any questions about this event to the museum's main contact for this event, Patricia Poku-Speight at ppoku@american.edu.Image:Valerie Brathwaite, Untitled, 1979. Acrylic paint and plaster, diameter: 11 1 /2 in. 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