The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College are pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition Finding Baroque (terre florida), new work by Edgar Endress. The exhibition will open with an artist walkthrough on Friday, October 2 at 4pm, followed by a reception from 5 pm to 9pm during Art Walk.

This collaborative, interdisciplinary project between Flagler College students and artist Edgar Endress takes the Spanish colonial past of St. Augustine as a departure point and considers the Baroque as a manifestation of the colonial system. During the spring of 2015 in a course of the same name, Endress and a group of Flagler students engaged in the process of discovering the Baroque in St. Augustine.  The works included in the exhibition, including sculpture, drawing, painting and print, are a continuum of what began earlier this year.

Edgar Endress is an Associate Professor at George Mason University, teaching new media and public art. Born in Chile, he has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, most recently at Museum of Contemporary art (MACBA), Barcelona Spain and the Nichols Gallery at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. In 2007, in association with Provisions Library, an arts and social change research and development center at George Mason University, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who deploy innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art making practices. He received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Creative Capital Fund.

Finding Baroque and its related programs are generously supported through a grant from The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.  The exhibition is also a partner program of "Latino Americans: 500 Years of History," which has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.