Events
Opening Reception for Oscar Palacio's "American Places"
Oct 8 2010 8:30PM - 11:00PM
Event Details
Friday, October 8, 2010
5:30 pm-8 pm
CIIS Minna Street Center,
695 Minna Street (at 8th Street).
Refreshments provided
About the Exhibit
In American Places we'll see, for the first time, images from both of Oscar Palacio's recent bodies of work, History Revisited and Un-Familiar Territory. The works of History Revisited--sites of conquest, national pride, or shame--are juxtaposed against the works from Un-Familiar Territory, which show both the familiar and forgotten, the grandiose and banal, in sites closer to what we migh associate as "home."
Mt. Rushmore. Gettysburg. Manzanar. The monumental structure built to house the historic site itself. The white picket fence whose shape mimics that of the stained glass windows behind it. Weathered fence boards carefully altered to accomodate the lean of a tree now chopped down. Palacio's images are gently humorous, allowing us entry to consider our relationship with the natural world.
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