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Costa Rican artist Rebeca Alpizar will give a free public lecture about Latin American art noon Friday, March 26, in Williams Center for the Arts room 108.
She will serve a residency at Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute through Monday, March 29. Through a collaboration between EPI and the MCS Gallery, Alpizar is curating Through Women’s Eyes: Visions from Costa Rica, an exhibition featuring contemporary Latin American art March 27-May 1 at the MCS Gallery, 1110 Northampton Street. An opening reception will be held at MCS 5-8 p.m. Saturday, March 27. It is free and open to the public.
The exhibit will feature works by five Costa Rican female artists: Alpizar, Dinorah Carballo, Mirta Castro, Carolina Cordoba, and Nien Mei Lee. The artists have created representations of “the idea of woman in an organic sense and how women view the world through their own eyes.”
Works in this exhibit range in mixed media (from photography and printmaking to rust and wood) as well as subject matter (from the human eye to pornography). They share a connection in that they reflect the traditions and values of Costa Rica and Latin America.
Curlee Raven Holton, associate professor of art and EPI’s founder and director, “embraces this junction in artistic forces in order to acknowledge Latin American art as a major contributor to the contemporary art scene as well as to celebrate specifically the creative impulse of women artists of Costa Rica,” according to EPI.
Support for Aplizar’s residency is provided by the art department, the women’s studies program, and International Students Association at Lafayette.
For more information, contact EPI at (610) 330-5592 or MCS Gallery at (610) 253-2332, ext. 236.
Since its founding by Holton in 1996, Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute has provided an open environment for professional artists and students to create new bodies of work while investigating and experimenting with a wide variety of approaches to the print medium. Its artist-in-residence and visiting artist programs have brought more than 20 artists to campus, many with international reputations. EPI’s exhibitions and international exchanges have introduced a broad range of artists and contemporary printmaking trends to members of the Lafayette community and beyond.
A member of the Lafayette faculty since 1991, Holton has mounted more than 30 one-person shows and has participated in more than 75 group exhibitions, including the Seventh International Biennale at the National Center of Fine Arts, Cairo, and shows at Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm Gallery, Mexico City. His works are in the collections of several universities, foundations, and corporations, including Cleveland Museum of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Villanova University, and Morehouse College.
Holton has mentored many Lafayette students in printmaking, bookmaking, drawing, and painting. He also has served as curator for a dozen exhibitions, authored many articles and essays, and presented numerous papers.