Part of the Sunfest Festival, the Colores de Latinoamérica (Colours of Latin America) exhibition offers in the TAP Centre for Creativity, in London (Ontario), fascinating windows into the worlds of over a half-dozen highly engaging artists, many of them young, new generation voices with an interdisciplinary focus. Following are some descriptions of the artists given by the organizers of the exhibition:
Mariana Bolaños is a Mexican artist based in Toronto. Focusing on painting, sculpture and installation with a social purpose, she “enjoys the process of exploration guided only by mere intuition… and the constant state of uncertainty that it brings.”
Mao Correa is a Colombian-born and raised conceptual artist (painting, assemblage and graphic design) whose eclectic and visceral work critiques our frenzied consumerism and lack of environmental awareness.
Originally from El Salvador, but a Londoner since he was a year old, Óscar Marroquin-Ponce is a young emerging artist who uses acrylics and different pouring mediums to create experimental works that take audiences on a flowing poetic journey he calls “floesia”.
A second-generation Latin American artist from Costa Rica and Cuba, Toronto’s Michelle Peraza uses portraiture as a starting point for conversations on human origins, culture, lineage, history, skin colour, migration, integration, loss of identity, and value systems.
A highly respected printmaker who got his start in Havana, Cuba, Agustín Rolando Rojas came to Canada in 1997 and, since then, has lived on both sides of the Canada-United States border. His work is “inspired by both nature and the intimacy that is shared between human beings interacting with one another.”
Visual artist, digital artist and photographer Alex Usquiano has found “a new level of awareness” since moving to Toronto from Colombia. He likes to challenge the ideas of old-school artists by showing that “digital art has the capacity to be as beautiful, terrifying and wonderful as any form of traditional art.”
- TAP Centre for Creativity (203 Dundas Street, London)
- Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
- Free
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