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Galería América

The Institute for Latino Studies presents:

Arteologist: Archeology of Memory
Diógenes Ballester, Featured Artist
Monday, January 12 - Friday, March 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 2009
McKenna Hall
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame

The Institute for Latino Studies is pleased to announce a gallery opening reception at 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 15, 2009, to celebrate the work of artist Diógenes Ballester. The reception will be held at the Institute for Latino Studies Galería América in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Diógenes Ballester is an internationally renowned artist who has established a profound aesthetic based on his Puerto Rican heritage and experience growing up in Puerto Rico and the United States. Ballester’s work in various media explores oral history, memory, mythology, ritual, and cultural identity along a transnational spectrum. His artistic vision addresses the deeply spiritual foundations of Puerto Rican culture interlaced with layers of complex contemporary social and political realities. Drawing inspiration from childhood memories of the Puerto Rican city of Ponce, combined with his family’s oral history, and his migration to the United States, Ballester’s work offers the viewing audience and students of Caribbean art rich opportunities to engage the evolution and transformation of the Puerto Rico experience through its historical foundations to the present day.

Preceding the gallery opening Ballester will host a presentation titled, “Reconfigured Perspective: A History of a Memory” at 4:00 pm at McKenna Hall Room 208. Then on Friday, January 16 at 4:00 pm in McKenna Hall Room 208 his wife, M. Boncher, will be featured at a poetry reading sponsored by the Institute and the Creative Writing Program.

View the Virtual Gallery (Coming Soon)

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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View Other Galería América shows:

Diez Ańos: Arte de ILS & IUPLR

ILS Student Exhibition
A group show of 13 student artists
Christos Romelia, curator

Arteologist: Archeology of Memory
Diógenes Ballester, Featured Artist

35 Years of Photography
Antonio Turok, Featured Artist

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

ILS Student Exhibition

Dialogues on the Americas

Consejo Nactional de Talleres Portfolio, Creando Fuerza

Del Corazón del Pueblo (From the Heart of the People)

Aztlán y más allá (Aztlán and Beyond)
Rubén Trejo, Artist

The Camera's Eye: Photographic Works by Javier Hernández

The Spirit of Memory/El Espíritu del Recuerdo
Kathy Vargas, Photographer

El Pueblo Unido: Poster Art of Global Awareness

Nuyorican Realities: Works from Spanish Harlem

Interior Conversations
Featured Artist: Ixrael, Printmaker

Elements of Womanhood
Esperanza Gama, Artist

Pasatiempos de La Frontera
An Exhibition by Jesus Benitez, 2005 ND Graduate

Strength & Struggle; Portraits of Women
Artist, Cristina Cárdenas

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
Steve Moriarty, Photographer

Espiritu Digital (Digital Spirit)
Fernando Salicrup, Digital Artist

From Early History to the Modern Experience 1864-2001
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