Delia Brown mentioned in The New York Times Review of the Havana Biennial

Delia Brown is mentioned in The New York Times Review of the Havana Biennial. Ian Urbino's review is featured on page C2 of the April 1, 2009 issue of the New York Times.

Ian Urbino writes:

"HAVANA — About 10 minutes after arriving at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes to show her work at the biggest exhibition by American art galleries in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, Delia Brown whispered, only half joking, to her Cuban assistant that the gallery was too hot and that she planned to head back to her hotel.

“I think I’ve worked hard enough standing here,” she said, though she had intended to spend some time eavesdropping on Cubans looking at her work to see how they interpreted it.

She was standing beside one of her works from the “Guerrilla Villa” series, an oil painting of Ms. Brown and her friends posing against the decadent backdrop of a $1,000-a-night resort in St. Bart’s. Dressed in bikini tops, camouflage pants and Che berets, the women look stern-faced while drinking Havana Club Rum and eating Skittles.

The painting, part of Ms. Brown’s “Guerrilla Lounging” project, is both an embrace and a critique of the leisure class. And its wry irony could not have been more apropos for the “Chelsea Visits Havana” show, which opened on Saturday as part of the 10th Havana Biennial and gives the Cuban art world a look at the New York art scene.

Ms. Brown, a dozen other American artists and scores of critics and buyers flocked to the island to enjoy themselves, show their wares and, perhaps, offer solidarity to Cuban artists, many of whom were denied travel visas to the United States to sell their work during the eight years of the Bush administration..."

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