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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Haley Art Gallery’s 20th season’s-end exhibit, Murmurs of the Mirrors, will showcase Massachusetts artist, Carlos Vega’s mixed media paintings on antique mirrors. The exhibit–on view September 12 to October 31st–will also include a collection of handmade jewelry by the artist. The gallery will host an Artist’s Talk on Saturday, October 11, 1-3 p.m.https://haleyartgallery.com/current-exhibit
Carlos Vega is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Wellesley College. The Chicano artist lives between New England and the South of Spain and was raised on the border between Mexico and the U.S., and later studied in Paris, New York, and Cambridge (Mass). His art captures the hybridity of culture and spirit that is ever-changing in the Latinx community, once shaped and reshaped by places left behind and those to be found. Religion and spiritual belief–in all its manifestations and transgressions–are central to Vega's work. For him, religion is as much image, ritual, and the material as it is abstract belief. He works primarily with antique and vintage mirrors housed mainly in historic frames that may tell their own stories, oftentimes already partially distressed. He further erodes the reflective surface to bring out what he believes the glass has retained and what it has seen. Some will imagine a collage, but he believes he is revealing portions of cultural and personal pasts. Other than existing images, he employs gold and other metals, foil, paint, and ink using a syringe that breaks through the layers of impressions, and powdered pigment.
Haley Art Gallery is open Thursdays thru Saturdays, 11 am to 6 p.m. The gallery’s gift shop offers globally sourced social impact gifts, hand-made by women. Special discounts are available for interior decorators, designers, and seacoast businesses.
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