Edwin Guembes, one of the directors at FoundrVision and FoundrSpace
The Corridor, a new gallery where one can discover unique artworks by emerging artists and underrepresented communities, opened earlier this month during ArtNight Pasadena 2023.
In addition to a rotating selection of contemporary art, curator Leonardo Moleiro also plans to host workshops, artist talks, and other events to engage the community and promote the arts.
The Corridor is housed on the second floor of FoundrSpace Pasadena, located in the heart of Old Town Pasadena. Nonprofit FoundrVision, is managing the gallery.
“The Corridor will carry a handpicked selection of art from both renowned and emerging local artists,” said Edwin Guembes, one of the directors at FoundrVision and FoundrSpace. “The goal and the mission is to create imaginative and thought-provoking work in a wide spectrum of mediums that will get lots of folks coming in and adding onto the social and intellectual commerce.”
Guembes said when FoundrSpace opened, one of the goals was to utilize FoundrVision to hold cultural programming by throwing events that support different artists including musicians, visual artists, painters, sculptors, and more.
According to Guembes, The Corridor has been in the works for about a year now.
He added that the team behind it, which also includes BruHa, co-founder of The Corridor, and local multidisciplinary artist Marinés Adrianza, the featured artist for the gallery’s first exhibit, has been working diligently in preparing the space.
The space will open to the public for the first time at the opening exhibit, “Prismatic Humans,” which offers a selection of works by Moleiro, Adrianza, BruHa, and ten other artists from diverse backgrounds from Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley.
“For the first show you will see that the lineup is very diverse, both in style, discipline and where we all come from,” BruHa said. “We have painting, sculpture, and live performances.”
“It’s a way of seeing the artist as a prism, where the ideas and inspiration are seen as the beams of light and the artwork is the reflection of that light. I will bring about 13 pieces myself and then there’s going to be two sculptural masks that are going to be part of a live performance with two professional artists and dancers,” Adrianza said about the opening exhibit.
Two artists from New York will also be joining the exhibit, as per Adrianza.
All the pieces that will be featured at the gallery will be up for sale.
Adrianza said the artworks will stay at the gallery only for one month. After the opening exhibit, the gallery will be open to the public by appointment.
“There’s going to be a rotation of artists. After the opening, the gallery’s going to be open by appointment. Anyone who would like to see the exhibition, they would have to call us and write to us and make an appointment so we can show them the collections,” Adrianza said.
“Prismatic Humans” will run through April 10.
For more information about the gallery, visit www.thecorridor.art
