Galería América

The Institute for Latino Studies presents:

Soldaderas y Adelitas y otras mujeres revolucionarias/Women Revolutionists and Other Revolutionary Women
Esperanza Gama, Featured Artist
Monday, April 19 - Monday, May 10, 2010
McKenna Hall
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame

To honor the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the Institute for Latino Studies is pleased to present a special exhibition Soldaderas y Adelitas y otras mujeres revolucionarias/Women Revolutionists and Other Revolutionary Women, featuring the work of artist Esperanza Gama. The exhibition displays recently created works that pay tribute not only to the women of the Mexican Revolution but also to all women who have struggled anonymously to realize their dreams. Also on display is an ofrenda honoring the Mexican Revolution.

Esperanza Gama is an internationally renowned artist who has established an aesthetic based on her Mexican heritage and experience growing up in Mexico. Born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Gama is an independent professional graphic artist whose artwork incorporates many techniques. Describing her work as representative of ?magical realism,? Gama?s artistic development was influenced by her study of the artists of both the Renaissance and surrealist movements.

After receiving her BFA from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Guadalajara in 1984, Gama was appointed professor of painting and drawing at the Cabanas Cultural Institute in Guadalajara. In 1988 Gama moved to France, where she studied printmaking and drawing at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Chaville and completed interior design commissions in Paris, Marseilles, and Cannes featuring her figurative drawings and paintings. In 1990 Gama began traveling throughout Southeast Asia, completing a course in Chinese painting at Gakukaie Sumie Center in Tokyo, Japan in 1993. Gama?s work is published in important surveys of Latino and Chicano art as well as exhibition catalogs. In 2003 Gama was awarded the Sor Juana Achievement Award for Visual Arts by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and she has received three Illinois Arts Council Partial Support Grants. Esperanza Gama currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Galería América is open daily, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available in the Visitors' Lot on Notre Dame Avenue.

For more information about the Institute for Latino Studies visit our web site at latinostudies.nd.edu
or contact
Teresa Santos
Curator
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame
574-631-5224
tsantos1@nd.edu

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