Young Latino Artists

PRESS RELEASE

Everything's Going to be Okay: Young Latino Artists 13


Curated by Leslie Moody Castro
October 3 – November 9, 2008

Mexic-Arte Museum
419 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 480-9373

Opening Reception – Friday, October 3, 2008
Members’ Preview – 6:00-7:00 PM
Reception – 7:00-9:00 PM
Performance by Carlos Rosales-Silva – 8:00 PM

Everything’s Going to be Okay illustrates how moments of vulnerability can turn into our greatest strengths. The artists in this exhibition do not define themselves by the blood running through their veins or their ancestral history, but rather their personal histories. This exhibition, in its 13th year, features and challenges young Latino artists under the age of 35 to create and present their vision in a reexamination of social and aesthetic norms with new and experimental media.

Artists:
Luis David Contreras II (Mission, TX)
Adriana Garcia (San Antonio, TX)
Cardee Garcia (San Antonio, TX)
Gerardo Garcia (San Antonio, TX)
Christina Garza-Mitchell (Corinth, TX)
Ivan R. Lozano (Austin, TX)
Nathan Orosco (Odessa, TX)
Carlos Rosales-Silva (Austin, TX)
Xochi Solis (Austin, TX)
Lupita Murillo Tinnen (Plano, TX)
Felix Anthony Trejo (Brownsville, TX)
David “Shek” Vega (San Antonio, TX)

For more information, please contact pr@mexic-artemuseum.org or (512) 480-9373.
www.mexic-artemuseum.org

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