PINTURA : PALABRA -- DC: photo galleries

PINTURA: PALABRA, a project in ekphrasis

L to R standing: 

E. Carmen Ramos, Juan J. Morales, Valerie Martínez, 

Carmen Calatayud, Maritza Rivera, Samuel Miranda, 

Yvette Neisser Moreno, John Chávez, Emma Trelles, 

Elizabeth Acevedo

front row: 

Brenda Cárdenas, Carlos Parada Ayala,  

Francisco Aragón, Dan Vera

taken at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Washington, D.C.

February 16, 2014

*****

WORKSHOP, Day 1: February 15, 2014

E. Carmen Ramos welcomes workshop participants

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art 

Workshop, Day 1: February 15, 2014

Samuel Miranda

&

"West Side Story Upside Down, Backwards,

Sideways and Out of Focus

(La Maleta de Futriaco Martínez)"

by ADÁL

2002, suitcase, flat-screen LCD monitor,

digital video.

Valerie Martínez

&

"Placa/Rollcall"

by Charles "Chaz" Bojórquez

1980, acrylic on canvas

Brenda Cárdenas

&

"Erased Lynchings"

by Ken Gonzales Day

2006, fifteen ink jet prints

Carmen Calatayud

&

"Pariah"

by Marcos Dimas

1971-72, oil on canvas

Yvette Neisser Moreno

&

"Death of Ruben Salazar"

by Frank Romero

1986, oil on canvas

Elizabeth Acevedo

&

"The Domincan York"

&

"Santo Trujillo is Dead"

both from the series Island of Many Gods

by Scherezade Garcia

2006, acrylic, charcoal, ink, 

and sequins on paper

Emma Trelles

&

"Decoy Gang War Victim"

by Asco

(photographer: Henry Gamboa, Jr.)

1974, printed 2010, chromogenic print

&

"A la Mode"

by Asco

(photographer: Henry Gamboa, Jr.)

1976, printed 2010, chromogenic print

John Chávez

&

"Erased Lynchings"

by Ken Gonzales Day

2006, fifteen ink jet prints

Juan J. Morales

&

"Illegal Alien's Guide to the Concept 

of Relative Surplus Value"

by Enrique Chagoya

2009, lithograph on amate paper

Maritza Rivera

&

"El altar de mi bisabuelo/My Great Grandfather's altar"

&

"Peregrino/Pilgrim"

both from the series

Santos y sombras/Saints and shadows

DINNER INTERLUDE 

@

OYAMEL

el menu, 

with signatures

WORKSHOP, Day 2: February 16, 2014

el grupo

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"SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE"

@

Busboys and Poets

February 16, 2014

Full House

Sarah Browning 

welcomes us

Ekphrastic Poetry Reading w/projected art

Brenda Cárdenas

John Chávez

Emma Trelles

Elizabeth Acevedo

Carmen Calatayud

Carlos Parada Ayala

Dan Vera

Maritza Rivera

Yvette Neisser Moreno

Samuel Miranda

Juan J. Morales

Valerie Martínez

***

POST READING

L to R standing:

Emma Trelles, Brenda Cárdenas, Carmen Calatayud,

Yvette Neisser Moreno, Valerie Martínez, Martitza Rivera,

Samuel Miranda, John Chávez, Carlos Parada Ayala

front row:

Francisco Aragón, Dan Vera, Juan J. Morales

missing:

Elizabeth Acevedo

***

"PINTURA : PALABRA,

a project in ekphrasis"

in Washington, D.C.

was made possible, in part,

by the Weissberg Foundation