Carioca: A Year among the Natives of Rio de Janeiro, Work by Sandow Birk presented a wryly intelligent group of drawings and paintings that record the contemporary landscape and inhabitants of Rio; in so doing, Birk parodied the 19th-century artist-explorers’ pseudoscientific documentation of “exotic locales and their “savage” inhabitants.

Carioca: A Year among the Natives of Rio de Janeiro was organized by the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California