My Mexican Shivah / Morirse esta en Hebreo Mexico/US, 2006, 102 min. Director: Alejandro Springall Genre: Drama/Comedy Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew with English Subtitles When Moishe Tartakovsky, exuberant patriarch of a Mexico City family, dies of a heart attack in the middle of a raucous...

Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore, American pop-culture. His work has more affinities with Dada...

Carlos Barberena de la Rocha was born in the city of Granada, Nicaragua in 1972, (the same year as the Managua earthquake). He was born into a family of artists, as the son of Myriam de la Rocha Silva (b.1938) and Roberto Barberena Ruiz (1938-1972), who unfortunately died in an accident when...

Sergio Garcia was born on 1959 in Havana, Cuba. He immigrated to the United States with family in 1961, settling in Union City, New Jersey, until 1969. On that same year, he moved to Miami, Florida, where since then he has lived and worked. Essentially self-taught artist, he embraced painting...

Ruben Gerardo Ubiera Gonzalez (born October 19, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican neo-figurative artist, known for his strong use of the line, who has been drawing and painting ever since he had use of reason. Ruben paints and draws in a style considered by many as...

Laura C Galicia Born: Distrito Federal, Mexico City cuetzpalinjade@gmail.com Lived for about 19 yrs. in my beloved Aztec City, moved to Indiana in 1999 and been living here ever since. As a Latino I’ve been influenced by many cultural factors (Mexican and American) that changed my...

The art that I create is an amalgam of influences from Michaelangelo to Yepes, covering an array of genres and styles, ultimately fusing them to create something contemporary and iconic, yet timeless and infinitely familiar. My early years were shaped by popular culture and the empowerment of...

Gabriela is a native of Mexico City. Coming from a long line of artists, she studied art at Wright State University in the United States. Her life is full of experiences that have allowed her to develop her talent as an artist. Being born in Mexico nurtured a fondness for what most people...

Gabriela Peña Mexico City happygaby101@gmail.com My work is a leap of faith hoping for the best, and sometimes, for the worst. These photographs represent the way I see myself and more importantly how I would wish to see myself, taking the camera as an extra pair of eyes unknown to my own. My...

Catalina del Cid San Salvador, El Salvador. catalinadelcidb@yahoo.com TO REACH CHILDREN Children are my audience of choice. They deserve to be informed, accompanied, nourished and provided with hope in the challenging moments of life. My artworks deal in a poetic way with strong and...

2008 Common Ground: Dia de los Muertos I wanted to organize an international collaboration on the theme of death for a while. Since this is such a universal topic, not only would everyone have something to say about it but, the way in which each artist would tell it, and the meaning and...

T H E R I T U A L S o f D O N G R E G O R I O A N T Ó N by P a u l L a R o s a an excerpt from Strange Genius, 21st – The Journal of Contemporary Photography To view the widely praised and widely exhibited work of Don Gregorio Antón is to bear witness to an intensely...

The gallery promotes both established masters and emerging talent, and fosters and understanding and appreciation for all cultures and their history through, lectures, presentations, live cultural performances, classes and other events, both inside and beyond the gallery walls. The vision of...

Every warrior has a weapon and mine is my art. In my work I try to visually examine the versions of “American” history that have been overlooked and whitewashed. Aware that history is used as a strategy of domination, I attempt to subvert through my art the various dominant histories of...

THROCKMORTON FINE ART IS PLEASED TO PRESENT Frida Kahlo and the Mexican Renaissance Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present the photography exhibit: “Frida Kahlo and the Mexican Renaissance.” The twentieth century’s first revolution was in Mexico, 1910-1920. The Revolution was...

Andrés Contreras García Maestro en Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 2003 Realizó estudios de pintura Clásica en el Instituto Nacional de Arte UINA en Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2005 Ha realizado muestras individuales en la Cámara de Comercio de Bogota en el...

Victoria Loeb was born in 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1992 she met Argentine artist Alicia Maffei and began studying with her. In 1996 she became her drawing assistant and worked with her through 1999. During that time, she was accepted at the Fine Arts Institute Prilidiano...

Luis De La Torre arrived in Chicago’s neighborhood of Bridgeport at the age of seven. Although he had spent most of his childhood in the states of Jalisco and Nayarít in western Mexico, he was actually born in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.–Mexico border in 1969. These early years may...

My paintings are portraits of timeworn structures and objects in the urban landscape. Through a representational style, my intent is that the structures convey a variety of stories told over years of use and abuse. By placing the viewer up close into the immediate space of the subject, I...

Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Judithe Hernández was part of the vanguard of artists who helped launch the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movement of the 1960′s and 70′s, and is regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period. She helped forge the...