{"id":374,"date":"2025-02-13T07:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:08:19","slug":"the-bronx-figures-john-ahearn-and-rigoberto-torres-james-fuentes-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/the-bronx-figures-john-ahearn-and-rigoberto-torres-james-fuentes-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Bronx Figures&#8221;: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres @ James Fuentes, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/b288eb7348aaf6fc9d5851005a97e68e_L.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">James Fuentes is honored to present Bronx Figures, an exhibition surveying the iconic freestanding works of long-term collaborators John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. These affectionate portrayals of the city\u2019s ordinary people began on the sidewalk when, in 1979, Ahearn set up shop to life-cast passersby at the storefront of Fashion Moda, the storied South Bronx art gallery run by Stefan Eins, Joe Lewis, and William Scott. It was there that Ahearn would also meet Rigoberto Torres, a Puerto-Rican born, Bronx raised artist whose experience in casting began in his uncle\u2019s botanica statuette factory. Bronx Figures brings together a group of ambitious, in-the-round works spanning the 1980s to today, which have made a lasting impression on New York City\u2019s public spaces&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fuentes is honored to present Bronx Figures, an exhibition surveying the iconic freestanding works of long-term collaborators John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. These affectionate portrayals of the city\u2019s ordinary people began on the sidewalk when, in 1979, Ahearn set up shop to life-cast passersby at the storefront of Fashion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}