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MOCHA 
Press Release 

212-966-6699

September 10, 1986                              

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC ART TO PRESENT NEW YORK'S LARGEST LATIN AMERICAN ART EVENT

The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) will host the Latin American Graphic Arts Biennial, the largest Latin American art event ever presented in New York. Over 200 prints by more than 100 artists will be shown in the Biennial exhibition, which opens at MoCHA on Thursday, September 25 and runs through November 30, 1986. A jury of prominent members of the print world will award three major prizes at the opening reception; acting as jurors are: New York gallery director Sylvan Cole; Andrew Stasik, Gallery Director of the Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts in New Canaan, CT; Ofelia Garcia, former Director of The Print Club in Philadelphia and current President of the Atlanta College of Art; and Barry Walker, Associate Curator at The Brooklyn Museum. Nilda M. Peraza, MoCHA's Director, curated the exhibition.

The Graphic Arts Biennial is the best available opportunity for the New York public to see Latin America's most outstanding printmakers. A variety of individual media are used in the works including lithography, silkscreen, collography, etching, aquatint, linocut, woodcut and others. Innovative combinations of these techniques can be seen here as well. The prints range in size from under six inches square to over six by eight feet; their imagery also varies widely--from formal abstraction to tropical landscape, from political and social statement to romantic lyricism. All countries from South and Central America and the Caribbean will be represented symbolically by participating artists, regardless of their place of residence.

Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art
Broadway • New York, New York 10012