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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CONTACT: Russell Guerrero
March 3, 2008
Art Exhibit at Trinity University Focuses on the Undocumented Immigration between U.S./Mexico Border
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Image: William Betts, 59 and Hillcroft, Houston, Texas, 6:15 p.m., May 31, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 51x72 inches. |
SAN ANTONIO – An art exhibit titled Eligible Traffic, which examines the contentious issue of immigration between the United States and Mexico, will be on display from Friday, March 7 until Saturday, April 5, in the art gallery of Trinity University’s Dicke Art Building. Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment by calling 210-999-7682. It is free and open to the public.
In addition, an opening reception will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7, that is also open to the public.
Eligible Traffic refers to the regulation of the flow of individuals designated by the Department of Defense. The art exhibit addresses the subject of undocumented immigration and the differentiation of those that are permitted or excluded in legal formalities surrounding the U.S. and Mexico border.
The works do not strive to recognize the victimization of the immigrants but it effectively exploits the laws that are invisible to its subjects by featuring visually scrambled borders and the concepts of national membership and issues of censorship are reanalyzed.
Eligible Traffic will feature works from David Avalos, Louis Hock, Elizabeth Sisco, William Betts, Margarita Cabrera, Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Pedro Lasch, Yoshua Okon, Jenny Polak, Lordy Rodriguez, and Gary Sweeney. The exhibition is a curatorial collaboration between the students in Trinity University’s Gallery Practicum seminar and New York-based guest curator and Trinity alumni Stephen Lam.
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Ward, associate professor of art and art history, at 210-999-7217.
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