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[[Seal of New Mexico]] STATE OF NEW MEXICO OFFICER OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS HISPANIC CULTURAL DIVISION Tel: (505) 246-2261 Fax: (505) 246-2613 1701 4th St. SW Albuquerque, NM 87102 Contact: Michael Hurley 505-266-5637 or Andrew Connors 505-246-2261, Ext. 116 For Immediate Release Major Hispanic Art Exhibition Comes to New Mexico "La Luz," A First A first-of-its-kind art exhibition featuring 50 Hispanic artists will premiere in Albuquerque, New Mexico beginning October 21, 2000. The exhibition of contemporary Hispanic art will be featured during the grand opening of the $55 million National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico. The exhibit will be on display in the Visual Arts Center, which is one of the complexes on the Center's 22-acre tract. The exhibition is entitled "La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States," and will run until May 27, 2000. The National Hispanic Cultural Center's Senior Curator, Andrew Connors says, "This wide-ranging exhibition showcases the diversity of Latino visual expression from across the United States. Artists of Hispano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Mexican American and other Latin American heritages present a broad range of aesthetic traditions evident in contemporary art. The artists represented I this exhibition are nationally recognized leaders in their art forms. They have mastered their chosen media and are able visually to communicate complex intellectual ideas, political motivations, dreams and wishes, memories, and identity issues. This exhibition encourages dialogue about aesthetic tradition, personal emotion, and national cultural identity." This exhibition will introduce the broad range of art created today by artists of Latin American heritage I the United States. "La Luz" will include approximately 60 paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, prints, videos, and craft media. Fifty artists for Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Washington will be represented. Connors says, "As a group they represent the broad range of life in the United States; as individuals they speak singularly and affect each of us in very personal and profound ways." An illustrated catalogue with color reproductions of the work by each of the artists will accompany the exhibit. Andrew Connors, the exhibition's curator, has written brief introductions to each artist and his or her work. --more-- National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico Research and Literary Arts * Visual Arts * Performing Arts * Media Arts * Culinary Arts * Technology * Education * Special Programs
