Solo ESAS Mujeres:

Documenting the Universal | Material

March 17-May 5

Opening Reception: March 21 6:30-9:30p

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco

http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/MCCLA_New/gallery.html

Main Gallery, Cash Bar and Light Snacks/ $5 donation

 Curated by iona rozeal brown and Veronica Jackson, this 25th Annual Solo Mujeres exhibition utilizes photography, watercolor, graphite, textiles, audio, video, and mixed-media to explore aspects of female empowerment through documentation. As documenters of their identity, lives, loves, losses, and related matter, these artists, as narrators, are chroniclers of the worlds around them.  They are the visual story tellers interpreting their visual voices through these various mediums.

The distinguished line up of artists includes: Nina Chanel Abney, Dawn Black, Zöe Charlton, Gina M. Contreras, Lisa Cortés, Martha Diaz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deborah Grant, Jessica Ingram, Nicole Markoff (Nicacelly), Kelly Ording, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Stephanie Syjuco, and Robyn Twomey.  These artists acknowledge and continue the tradition of documentation using their own language.

Public Programs:

April 25, 6:30-9p, “Night in Conversation”: Join participating artists and curators, moderated by Dr. Ella Diaz (Visiting Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, SFAI), as we explore their various processes and motives, in so doing, their relationship to the conceptual line of the exhibition― identity explored through documentation.  FREE admission.  RSVP requested by April 18. 415.643.2775 or galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org

April 4, 7p, Film Screening: Precious (2009) Executive Produced by Lisa Cortés, Directed by Lee Daniels

April 11, 7p, Film Screening: The Woodsman (2004) Co-Produced by Lisa Cortés, Directed by Nicole Kassell

April 18, 7p, Film Screening: Antonia (2006) Directed by Tata Amaral, Produced by Tata Amaral, Geórgia Costa Araújo, Rui Pires