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Mexican artist featured in campus Gallery
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Schedule of events for Lucia Maya--April 6–May 11 Opening reception Sunday, April 6, 2–4 p.m., IU Kokomo Art Gallery
Lecture by Lucia Maya
Student Chat
Cinco de Mayo Celebration KOKOMO, Ind.—The IU Kokomo Art Gallery hosts works of world-renowned Mexican artist Lucia Maya from April 6 through May 11. Art Gallery Director Minda Douglas calls Maya’s paintings, drawings, and original prints “personal, thought-provoking, symbolic, and beautiful.” The exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Kokomo Community Arts Commission. Since her first showing in 1975, Lucia Maya has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Santa Domingo, Thailand, India, and extensively within Mexico. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California; the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City; and the Instituto de Cultural Puertorriqueño in San Juan, Puerto Rico, among others. Working predominantly with earth tones in the 1980s, Maya shifted in recent years to vividly contrasting colors in her oversized canvases. In an interview with El Antiquario magazine, Maya said, “I like using images which are commonplace and even over used in our culture—such as the moon, hearts and paper boats. I depict them with dignity and a more varied, richer and ambiguous form of symbolism.” Mexico Connect, an online magazine devoted to Mexican culture, history, and arts, described Lucia Maya as “Mexico’s graphic artist par excellence. “The pencil is her prime creative tool,” the article continued. “Limiting herself only to the lithographic grease pencil, this Tapatía artist syncopates the sweeping range of lithographic tonalitise—from velvet blacks to the most delicate nuances—with the expressive potential of fine white paper. . . . A poignant, realist illustrator, admittedly a disciple of Frida Kahlo, Maya has been strongly influenced by Carringtonian and Jungian dream structuring.”
Admission to the IU Kokomo Art Gallery is free. Hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, noon–4 p.m. For more information, call (765) 455-9523 or visit www.iuk.edu/artgallery.
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