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Visions of Dignity
Biggs
Museum of American Art
September 15 – October 15, 2010
The Biggs Museum of American Art is partnering, once again, with
the Delaware State Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic
Affairs (GACHA) to present the exhibition Visions of
Dignity, a celebration of Hispanic artists working in the
Mid-Atlantic region. The exhibit features the varied artistic
points of view from a vibrant local culture. At the same time,
Visions of Dignity artists create windows to see into
their own cultural origins. Visions of Dignity invited
artists to participate who identify as Latin American or U.S.
Latino, including those artists from Spanish, Portuguese, French
and English speaking countries in Latin America and the
Caribbean, living or working in the State of Delaware and the
Mid-Atlantic Region. Of all the submissions, forty art works by
fourteen artists were selected. The following sculptors,
painters, photographers and printmakers were selected by GACHA
members, Keyla Rivero-Rodriguez, Eli Ramos and Charito
Calvachi-Mateyko, to participate in Visions of Dignity:
Alicia Bonilla-Puig
(Landenberg, PA)
Alicia Dominguez
(Wilmington, DE)
Magaly Garza
(Fairfax, VA)
Masplata
(Dover, DE)
Maria de los Angeles Morales
(Paoli, PA)
Luis A. Morales
(West Chester, PA)
Mara Odette
(Buffalo, NY)
Claudia Olivos
(Arlington, VA)
Sergio Olivos
(Arlington, VA)
Gustavo Rojas
(Teaneck, NJ)
Nikki Schiro
(New York, NY)
Nicolas F. Shi
(Washington, DC)
Miguel Tio
(New York, NY)
Raul Villarreal
(Verona,
NJ)
The exhibition explores the theme of “dignity” through artistic
representations of the experience of being Latino in America.
The artists chosen for this exhibition have utilized symbols of
Hispanic family life, traditions, geographies and other
signifiers of Hispanic identity to communicate the stories of
their journey through the United States.
To compliment the Visions of Dignity exhibition, GACHA
organizers also plan to unveil six paintings by contemporary
Hispanic artists from private collections within the State of
Delaware, including the Norma Varisco de Garcia Collection as
well as works from the collections of Miguel Valazquez and Eli
Ramos. These collections are over thirty years in the making and
have rarely been seen in public before now. These six works will
be on view in the Biggs Museum’s children’s gallery, Sewell’s
Studio, for the duration of the Visions of Dignity
exhibition.
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