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Galería América The Institute for Latino Studies presents: Maceo Montoya: Retratos y Cuentos The Institute for Latino Studies is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Maceo Montoya: Retratos y Cuentos on display in the Galería América for the 2008 summer season. Maceo Montoya received his BA in History from Yale University in 2002 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2006. He was born into a family of artists and is the son of Malaquias Montoya, a world-renowned printmaker and poster artist. He was raised to believe in the potency of storytelling. He was exposed to the importance of conveying histories and expressing one's feelings in an attempt to depict the human condition. His artwork is a reflection of this upbringing. Montoya is a constant observer of life, both its beauty and its hardship. The characters and scenes he paints are imaginary, but they are derived from articles and essays he has read, stories he has heard directly, and from his own experiences. His creative impulses are stirred by stories of people overcoming hardships, risking their lives to provide for their families, and staking claim to their place on this earth. Montoya’s work often deals with Mexican immigrants. However, his goal is not to represent an overarching experience or identity but to give a specific human face—as a simple meditative portrait or as an elaborate series of intertwining compositions—to those he identifies with and feels intimately connected. He is not an immigrant or poor, yet he sees himself as a citizen of a world dominated by poverty, hunger, toil, war, and death. He chooses to tell stories both reflecting and revealing that reality, from the subtle to the confrontational. The exhibition consists of twenty-four charcoal drawings, lithographs, silkscreen, and oil paintings, many of which are developmental drawings for larger works, but serve to contextualize the unnamed figures of the series “Retratos” (portraits) and “Los Jodidos” (the damned). The Galería América is open daily, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. For more information about the Institute for Latino Studies visit our web site at latinostudies.nd.edu |
View Other Galería América shows: Diez Años: Arte de ILS & IUPLR ILS Student Exhibition Arteologist: Archeology of Memory 35 Years of Photography Maceo Montoya: Retratos y Cuentos Segura Publishing Company: Fine Art Prints Calaveras y Huesos: Día de los Muertos (Skeletons and Bones: Day of the Dead) Images of Immigrant Communities: A Photographic Exhibition Consejo Nactional de Talleres Portfolio, Creando Fuerza Del Corazón del Pueblo (From the Heart of the People) Aztlán y más allá (Aztlán and Beyond) The Camera's Eye: Photographic Works by Javier Hernández The Spirit of Memory/El Espíritu del Recuerdo El Pueblo Unido: Poster Art of Global Awareness Nuyorican Realities: Works from Spanish Harlem Interior Conversations Elements of Womanhood Pasatiempos de La Frontera Strength & Struggle; Portraits of Women Myths, Symbols and Colors' silk screen prints by Calixto Robles La vida mexicana: The Graphic Art of Leopoldo Méndez Southern Darkness, Southern Light: Photographs of Latin America Espiritu Digital (Digital Spirit) |
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