"GRAPHIC RESISTANCE" at George Fox UniversityTonight: an Artist talk at the Chehalem Cultural Center at 6:00PM & a Solo Exhibit at the Minthorne Gallery, at 7:00PM in the George Fox University  NEWBERG, Ore. – A free art exhibit featuring the work of a Chicago-based printmaker, Carlos Barberena, will be on display in George Fox University’s Minthorne Gallery beginning Monday, Sept. 16, through Friday, Oct. 25. The gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The exhibit, titled “Graphic Resistance,” features relief prints by Barberena, a native of Nicaragua who runs two printmaking projects, Bandolero Press and La Calaca Press. The event begins with an artist talk on Monday, Sept. 16, at the nearby Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St., from 6 to 7 p.m. A reception follows in George Fox’s Hoover Academic Building from 7 to 8 p.m. Barberena is known for his satirical relief prints and the use of images from pop culture, as well as from political and cultural tragedies. He has exhibited individually in Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and the U.S., and his work has been shown in art biennials, museums, galleries and cultural centers around the world. “In my art, I have consistently reflected on the cycles of repression and resistance and its relationship to the diaspora in which I have lived, throughout dictatorship, revolution, erasure, renewal, hope, dictatorship and repression,” Barberena said of his work. “I create to counteract the great silence around repression occurring globally, believing we are all intimately connected to it. I seek to demystify the ‘foreign’ experience, to bridge the distances that life across the border or wall produces, but also, the difference in the content of these experiences.” More information on the exhibit is available by contacting Jennifer Salzman, university director of exhibitions and collections, at 503-554-2634.
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Resistencia Gráfica: The Prints of Carlos BarberenaSaturday, August 10, 2019 2:00PM - 4:00PM Museum of Latin American Art  Resistencia Gráfica: The Prints of Carlos Barberena
Viva Events Center Artist printmaker Carlos Barberena will discuss his development as a self-taught artist as well as his involvement with a number of artist collectives and studio workshops, including Instituto Gráfico de Chicago. Barberena's print, Mater Dolorosa, is featured in MOLAA’s current exhibition, Gráfica América and depicts the mother Álvaro Conrado, a student killed at a protest against Nicaragua’s repressive government. A printmaking demonstration and opportunity to create a print with the artist will follow the presentation. Free with paid museum admission / Members Free Gráfica América workshops are sponsored in part by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. About the artist: Carlos Barberena is a Nicaraguan-American printmaker currently based out of Chicago, Illinois. He is founder of Bandolero Press, La Calaca Press, and co-founder and member of Instituto Gráfico de Chicago. His works examine the effects of historic and contemporary political events throughout the Americas, particularly on his homeland of Nicaragua. CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURALOPENIG RECEPTION: JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019 SMART MUSEUM OF ART, CHICAGO More info HERE This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latino/a identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba.  Above: Visiting Celia González’s home/studio in the Playa neighborhood, May 2017. Left to right are: Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Carlos Barberena, Harold Mendez, Dianna Frid, Alberto Aguilar, and Celia González. Cross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other, curators, cultural spaces, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time.  Carlos Barberena visiting with a fellow printmaker Julio César Peña at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana, May 2017. ARTISTS: Based in Chicago:
 Artists and curators on a tour of the Smart Museum in fall of 2017. TOUR: A version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba in January 2020.
ABOUT Cross Currents is organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. The exhibition is co-curated by Alison Fraunhar, independent curator and Associate Professor of Art and Design at St. Xavier University, Cesáreo Moreno, Director of Visual Arts & Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Raquel Carrera, an art historian and curator based in Havana, Cuba, in consultation with Michael Christiano, Deputy Director and Curator of Public Practice at the Smart Museum.  Behind-the-scenes, installation of Cross Currents at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Behind-the-scenes Here’s a behind-the-scenes look of artists installing their work for "Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural" at the Smart Museum of Art.
SUPPORT Support for the artist exchange and exhibition has been provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Southwest Airlines, and Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes.
Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery and the Elisabeth and William M. Landes Gallery.  Carlos Barberena (b. 1972, Nicaragua) "CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL"
OPENIG RECEPTION: JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019 SMART MUSEUM OF ART The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637 More info HERE "TIERRA HERIDA: Grabados de las Américas" |
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HM: It’s interesting to note the structural contrasts going on in most of your pieces, a balance between simple and complex, black and white.
CB: - Yes, I feel that the contrast between black and white gives the project more strength. Sometimes I think that this series chose its own medium. So, what better to illustrate fear than through black and white?
HM: Do you believe that your art tells a story uniquely related to the Nicaraguan experience?
CB: -No, it is decidedly not just the Nicaraguan experience. If you set this in another country that has been devastated by war, you’ll have the same thing. And what is important is to call them “years of fear,” because at the center of it all is the fear. It’s how different parties rule a population by fear, whether you’re a mother concerned for your child, concerned for your family, whether you’re being followed or threatened unless you turn your neighbor in. It’s the fear of living such a violent life. That’s the point of my exhibit, to reflect upon what we’ve lived through, the world over, not just Nicaragua. As you can see in a few of the pieces, some are about what happened in Abu Ghraib, some are in reference to article 5, Guantánamo, etcetera. There are different points of view.
CB: - Yes, I feel that the contrast between black and white gives the project more strength. Sometimes I think that this series chose its own medium. So, what better to illustrate fear than through black and white?
HM: Do you believe that your art tells a story uniquely related to the Nicaraguan experience?
CB: -No, it is decidedly not just the Nicaraguan experience. If you set this in another country that has been devastated by war, you’ll have the same thing. And what is important is to call them “years of fear,” because at the center of it all is the fear. It’s how different parties rule a population by fear, whether you’re a mother concerned for your child, concerned for your family, whether you’re being followed or threatened unless you turn your neighbor in. It’s the fear of living such a violent life. That’s the point of my exhibit, to reflect upon what we’ve lived through, the world over, not just Nicaragua. As you can see in a few of the pieces, some are about what happened in Abu Ghraib, some are in reference to article 5, Guantánamo, etcetera. There are different points of view.
"Años de Miedo / Years of Fear" Print Portfolio
25 Linocuts by Carlos Barberena
HM: Do you believe art to be an end unto itself, or do you think it should serve a higher purpose?
CB: - I think that one creates art, first of all, to purge many things and to communicate them, whatever they are. It’s not like I’m hoping someone will change their life or opinions after seeing my work. I’m just exposing my point of view, like a writer or a musician; it’s an act of communication though, and should not be merely decorative.
CB: - I think that one creates art, first of all, to purge many things and to communicate them, whatever they are. It’s not like I’m hoping someone will change their life or opinions after seeing my work. I’m just exposing my point of view, like a writer or a musician; it’s an act of communication though, and should not be merely decorative.
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