Super Rich // 6:00pm-9:00pm

JC Fridays
Nov 12
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Updated: Nov 17

Friday, December 5th, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Orlando Cuevas

"Icons, Currency, and Connection" brings together two longtime friends and collaborators, Orlando Cuevas and Carlos Bautista, whose creative journeys have intersected for over thirty years. Though their mediums differ, their work speaks to shared questions of belief, value, and cultural power.

Cuevas’ series Hero Worship reimagines the canon of art history through the lens of pop culture, fusing superheroes with iconic masterpieces in AI-generated imagery. His work explores the myths we build around strength, justice, and spectacle — and how these modern legends echo the sacred images of the past.

Bautista’s series Art Money Power takes American currency as both subject and symbol, digitally reconstructing its imagery into layered paintings. Using augmented reality, his works extend beyond the canvas, transforming the viewer’s cell phone into a portal that animates the hidden stories of wealth, authority, and control embedded in everyday exchange.

Presented together, their works reveal how heroes and money function as two sides of the same cultural coin — systems of worship, symbols of aspiration, and markers of power. What begins as a dialogue between friends becomes a conversation about the forces that shape collective imagination and belief.

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