Installation view, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa, "NAGUABO RAINBOW, DAGUAO ENCHUMBAO, FANGO FIREFLIES," SculptureCenter, 2014. Photo Jason Mandella.
Puerto Rican artist Radamés “Juni” Figueroa makes his U.S. institutional debut with “NAGUABO RAINBOW DAGUAO ENCHUMBAO FANGO FIREFLIES,” a verdantly tropical installation. Ferns, potted in plastic buckets, a neon-green backpack and cut-open basketballs and soccer balls, dominate the space; one can retreat from all the greenery in a treehouse-esque structure, complete with a hammock. All in all, an enjoyable way to skip forward to summer, albeit in SculptureCenter’s otherwise rather spartan warehouse.
