EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2010:
WALTER N. MARKS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow
September 9 - October 7
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15 - 5:00-7:00 p.m.
One woman show feacturing my recent documentary projects:
Life Cycles: Reflections of Change and A New Hope for Future Generations
In Search of The Mago
Riverside Art Museum
¡Adelante Siempre! Recent Work by Southern California Chicana Artists
September 11 - November 6, 2010
Adelante Siempre translates as “always forward” and implies the courage and conviction to
continually move ahead in life. This exhibition presents recent art production of four Southern
California Chicana artists: Laura Aguilar, Diane Arellano, Jacalyn López García, and Alma López
Gaspar de Alba. Filmmaker and still photographer Laura Aguilar has produced a body of work that
takes the human figure as its central form of inquiry. Her work has been shown extensively
throughout the United States and has received comprehensive treatment by prominent scholars
and cultural critics. Diane Arellano considers herself a social documentarian and has chronicled a
range of environments including the formal investigation of urban public places, the exquisite
tonality of large-scale landscapes, and performative social spaces of country line dancing. The
multi-media work of Jacalyn López García is well known to local audiences. López García has
documented immigrant and migrant farmworker families in the Coachella Valley, visually
questioned the previously inflated Southern California housing market, and has investigated the
Internet as a framework to interrogate a suburban bicultural identity. Alma López Gaspar de Alba
has used a wide variety of media to reclaim and reinterpret popular cultural icons such as the
Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexican wrestlers, and characters from the lotería, a Mexican game of chance. Her altar and mural work have celebrated the confluence of pre-Contact deities and Catholic Christian figures and also honored female friendship and familial lineage. This exhibition reveals the current artistic explorations of these artists as they push the formal and theoretical concerns of their chosen media. Much of the work locates photographic production and processes at the center of their aesthetic endeavors. Ann Marie Leimer, Assistant Professor of Latin American Art History at the University of Redlands, will serve as Guest Curator for the exhibition.
Show Run: September 11 - November 6, 2010
Show Opening: Saturday, September 11, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Show Reception: Saturday, October 2, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Show Moderated Panel: Saturday, October 23, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS: featuring artwork, stories, and photography
"Chicano Art For Our Millenium"
Bilingual Press/ASU Hispanic Research Center. March 2004.
http://latinoartcommunity.org/community/Gallery/Millennium/index.html
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"The Bedford Introduction to Literature
by Michael Meyer. A Collection of poems, short stories, and plays. 9th Ed.
Holtzbrink Publishers. 2009
"Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change"
Features journeys through global and local spaces in Place Matters
by Richard Chabran and Romelia Salinas (2003) Sturken, M. (ed)
Temple University Press. 2004
"Women, Art & Technology"
This book documents the core role of women in creating and shaping media/new media. Publisher: MIT Press, Edited by Judy Malloy, 2003
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?sid=C7A82A17-D916-4259-84E5-A08B9D397B7D&aid=18705
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"Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art"
A beautiful full-color, coffee-table quality book featuring the lives and careers of nearly 200 artists.
For more information on the book, sample photos and pricing visit http://www.latinoartcommunity.org
or visit the artist directory at http://www.latinoartcommunity.org/community/ChicArt/ArtistDir.html
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A college textbook designed to strengthen students' visual literacy.
Publisher: W.W. Norton, Authors include Lester Faigley (U of Texas at Austin), Diana George, Cynthia Selfe (both at Michigan Tech) and Anna George (an award-winning book designer). 2003."Sociology of FAMILIES" (second Edition)
Pine Forge Press, Newman & Grauerholz, 2002
ISBN 0-7619-8749-5
LIFE CYCLES: Reflections of Change and ANew Hope for Future Generations
FROM THE GARDEN (a fictional short-story on CD-Rom)
GLASS HOUSES: A view of American assimilation from a Mexican-American perspective
LATINO/A ART COMMUNITY - featured multimedia artist/photographer
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LIVING LARGE - a public art project