University of New Mexico Libraries will present Revisioning Tradition, which features serigraph prints by Rafael López Castro, one of the leading graphic designers working in Mexico City today, and digital prints by renowned Chicana artist Delilah Montoya, a native Texan, Master of Arts graduate of UNM’s Department of Art and Art History, and professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston. The exhibit opens Aug. 13 and runs through Dec. 14 in the gallery of the Center for Southwest Research on the ground floor of Zimmerman Library at UNM.
The works by López Castro are recent acquisitions for Special Collections in the CSRW. Montoya’s works are on temporary loan by the artist for this exhibit. Although the artists work in different media, their work is united by their interest in drawing traditional Mexican and Chicana/o iconography, events and concepts such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, Benito Juárez, Emiliano Zapata, pre-Columbian motifs, the Spanish/Indian encounter, or mestizaje (miscegenation) into a contemporary setting and dialogue.
Montoya will give a lecture on “Guadalupe en piel” on Nov. 20, 2007 at 3 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library. That will be followed by the reception in the CSWR gallery.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies, CSWR, and the Division of Iberian and Latin American Resources, and it is being curated by CRS Post-Doctoral Fellow Teresa Eckmann. For more information about the exhibit, please contact Teresa Eckmann at (505) 277-1010 or Eckmann@unm.edu.
Posted by scarr at August 6, 2007 05:02 PM