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January 2020
George Rodriguez: Double Vision
George Rodriguez: Double Vision, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the American photographer, spanning over 40 years of images from the Chicano civil rights movement, Hollywood celebrity circles, and music and entertainment scenes in Los Angeles and beyond. Opening reception October 19, 2019, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m., Thursdays, 12:00 noon – 7:00 p.m.
Las Arpilleras: Por la Vida y sus Derechos
During the 17 years of the Chilean Pinochet dictatorship, brave women told their stories of poverty, repression and oppression by embroidering brightly colored scenes on to burlap backgrounds of various sizes. These compelling, emotional and artful arpilleras, as they are called, were also sold by exiled Chilean women in financial and political solidarity with their creators – known as bordadoras. The widespread distribution of these handicrafts, during and after the dictatorship, kept alive the memories and hopes of Chile’s darkest…
Portfolio Series: Quique Rivera
Quique Rivera is a Puerto Rican artist, 2015 Latin Grammy-nominated director, United States Artist Simon Fellow 2016, and multiple award-winning filmmaker. His interest in diverse forms of fine arts led him to start experimenting and teaching himself stop-motion animation, a discipline where sculpture, photography, and storytelling would come together into what has become his art medium of choice. His films Menuda Urbe (2010), Aedes (2011), El delirio del pez león (2012) and Así de grandes son las ideas (2014) have…