Expansive World of Latino Underground at Artisphere

You have to look tough and be tough to survive in violent, desperate circumstances. But the art of living is to play good music wherever you are. You can find that kind of leadership now on exhibit at Artisphere in David Amoroso's portraits of local rappers and raggaetoneros from the underground Latino music scene.

The exhibit, called Delicate/Violent (Delicado/Violento), presents iconic, celebrity portraits of these musicians. The portraits show the violence and danger of a gang-based street world. But they don't confine the persons to those circumstances. The portraits include delicate patterns and details and lyrical lines and figures. The portraits are insistently individual. In Amoroso's artistic treatment of his subjects, they defy social stereotypes.