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THE EXPANSIVE WORLDS OF JOAN BELMAR:
Cartographer, political commentator, musicologist, passionate observer, Joan Belmar exemplifies these skills in addition to his quite proven mastery of his art. That cosmology comes together in his third exhibition at Addison/Ripley in bold two and three dimensional compositions which, by choice, strongly align with current events. Organized around the evocative exhibition title, Cambalache, the artist references both some of the musical culture of his birth and, in a recurring design motif, the, not so civic, U.S. political scene today in these new works. …