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other 2008 exhibitions › El Día de Los Muertos (MuertosDay of the Dead) › Tangled Up In You › Everybody Always Thinks They Are Right › Mickie Winters: Learning to Bend › Western Middle School Perspectives: Tableau Vivant › Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light › Marvin Francis: Prison's Paper Trail › Anthony Goicolea: Ramp

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

A special exhibition of contemporary altars created by the UofL Hite Art Institute in collaboration with the Latin America and Latino Studies

Saturday, November 1 - Sunday, November 9, 2008
in Gallery 4, off the Street Level Gallery

For this special exhibition and collaboration with the University of Louisville, 21c Museum will display a site-specific altar by Lexington-based artist Robert Morgan, and three altars by professors and students at the University that interpret these celebratory reliquaries in a contemporary context. The UofL altars will include one dedicated to Frida Kahlo by Dr. Chris Fulton and his students, a glass altar by Professor of Art Che Rhodes and advanced Glass Art students, and a dedication to "Las Victimas de Jaurez" (Dead Women of Jaurez) by Professor of Art Gabrielle Mayer and her painting class. In addition, Luci Mistratov’s silk painting class has created the title banner that will be hung outside the exhibition gallery.

Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a joyous holiday, that blends native Aztec and Roman Catholic traditions and beliefs to celebrate and honor the lives of deceased friends and family members. In this tradition, death is not seen as the end, but rather a new stage of life. It is now celebrated with cultural variations in areas throughout Latin America and the United States.

The exhibition will be open for the First Friday Trolley Hop on November 7.

About the Participating Professors and Artists:
 

Dr. Christopher Fulton is the Associate Professor of art history at the University of Louisville. He has written articles on various topics in Italian Renaissance art and is the author of An Earthly Paradise: The Medici, Their Art, and the Foundations of Modern Art. More recently he has turned his attention to Mexican art with studies on Mexican-Spanish relations, political iconography and contemporary practice. He is currently preparing a major show of paintings by the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Che Rhodes, Assistant Professor, Glass: Receiving a Bachelor of Art degree in 1995 from Centre College in Danville, KY under the direction of Stephen Powell, Rhodes went on to study with Jon F. Clark at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1998 and 1999, he was employed as an instructor at Tyler School of Art and Hot Soup Studios in Philadelphia and was head of the Glass Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from 1999 through 2004. He started the glass program at the University of Louisville during the spring semester of 2005.

Gabrielle Mayer, Assistant Professor, Painting: Gabrielle Mayer teaches painting at the Bachelor of Arts as well as the Master of Arts level. Her work portrays the life size renderings of women's fancy dresses that play with color and form but also explore the significance and impact of clothing and style in our culture. Her paintings place a single high fashion garment in illusionistic full color against a flat background of another color to create a dazzling "embodied but not inhabited dress in paint."

Robert Morgan: Creating work that is reminiscent of his Appalachian heritage, Robert Morgan works in junk and found objects, assembling them into speaking cultural artifacts. Morgan spent years on the road living the life of a gypsy vagabond in his youth, he chronicles those journeys and experiences in his assemblages.

Luci Mistratov: Mistratov holds a Ph.D. in Art Education from the Kaliningrad State University. She has illustrated many books of fiction and science, and has taught art classes and won awards in numerous national and international exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Presently, she is a Scholar-in-Residence for the College of Arts and Science at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Rhonda Buchanan, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies, Professor of Spanish: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program was established in 2000 to promote an interdisciplinary understanding of the complex issues and realities of the diverse peoples and cultures of Latin America and the United States, and enhance students' abilities to participate in the global community.

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