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Postcolonial Revenge: Exhibition
- Opening: Friday, January 18, 2019
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Main Gallery (2nd Floor)
- $5 Admission
- Runs through: February 22, 2019
Postcolonial Revenge is an exhibition that centers rage, justice and collective healing from intergenerational traumas. This exhibition investigates how rage can shape hope, inform action, and build intergenerational resistance.
Revenge is defined as the “satisfaction obtained by repaying an injury or wrong” or “an opportunity for retaliation; a chance to win after an earlier defeat.” The field of Postcolonial studies emerged as a way to bring forward voices and T/truths that were hidden from master narratives. Postcolonial studies have allowed us to see that Western empires built their foundations on the labor, exploitation, and stealing…
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Mission Gráfica Archive: Print Sale
- Opening: Friday, January 18, 2019
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Inti-Raymi Gallery (2nd Floor)
- Runs through: Friday, February 22, 2019
For forty years, Mission Gráfica Printmaking Studio has proven itself to be a creative haven for individuals to explore the practices of printmaking in a community-based and affordable studio space that stands out as one of the last grassroots art spaces in San Francisco.
The prints on view in the Inti-Raymi Gallery reflect the community’s desire for social and economic justice on such issues as immigration, displacement, and Third World freedom…
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Los Tres de La Mission
- Opening: Thursday, January 10, 2019
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Ch'in Kana Gallery (3rd Floor)
- Free Admission
- Runs through: February 13, 2019
Through forgotten objects, this exhibition tells us a story where philosophers, artists and social situations converge and emerge. Curated by Victor Navarrete, with paintings by Martin Revolo and Antonio…
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Between Life And Death
- Opening: Thursday, November 8, 2018
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Ch'in Kana Gallery (3rd Floor)
- Free Admission
- Runs through: December 13, 2019
Between Life and Death: Day of the Dead is a photo exhibition by Harvey Castro that brings the focus back to the people that live the traditions of Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead). In this ongoing project, Harvey Castro visits and documents how people in different regions of Mexico celebrate this special tradition with their families and community as a…
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32nd Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition: Vuelo de los Ancestros
- Soft Opening: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
- Celebration: Friday November 2, 2018
- From 6:30 PM to 10 PM
- Main Gallery (2nd Floor)
- Free Admission
- Runs through: September 8, 2018
Flight of the Ancestors • Vuelo de los ancestros is the 32nd Annual Day of the Dead exhibition hosted by Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. The creativity of artists, teachers, artisans, and overall community members has contributed to Day of the Dead evolving into our most iconic exhibit of the year. We carry this tradition forward by welcoming people to express personal, political, and spiritual contemplations of life and death. This year, we have asked people to use butterflies or moths as a metaphor that showcases death as an…
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California Lucha Libre
- Opening: Friday, August 1, 2018
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Inti-Raymi Gallery (2nd Floor)
- $5 Admission
- Runs through: September 8, 2018
"California Lucha Libre" are 13 photographs from a larger documentary photo essay Amelia Berumen worked on from October 2016-September 2017. After learning that her neighbor was a luchador (wrestler), Amelia made connections with the fighters of the California Lucha Libre Club, where she captured intimate portraits, backstage scenes, and ring photos of that particular underground scene.
After approximately three months of photographing, Amelia created her first photo book volume titled "Rudos vs Tecnicos" In November of 2017, "Rudos vs Tecnicos" was cataloged into the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
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Mascara vs Cabellera
- Opening: Friday, August 10, 2018
- From 6:30 PM to 9 PM
- Main Gallery (2nd Floor)
- $5 Admission
- Runs through: September 8, 2018
Visions of wrestling captured in paintings, drawings, photography, and apparel illustrate the rich surreal world of Mexican wrestling culture. Where the fight revolves around the theory of triumph and defeat. Where each combat and movement ends in a battle polarized by a duality between good and evil. This exhibit focuses on the history of the Mexican wrestling aesthetic, and its importance in popular…
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Intimate Aphorisms: An Anthology of Queer Latinx Narratives
- Opening: June 1, 2018
- From 6:30 to 9 PM
- $5 Admission
- 2nd Floor Galleries
- Runs through June 30, 2018
Curated by Orlando de la Garza, "Intimate Aphorisms" presents a journey into the lives of 15 artists and their uninhibited and instinctive expressions of individuality. The exhibition displays an intimate relationship between the artists and their subjects that ranges from identity, family, desire, displacement, faith, and body image. The artists execute their personal work with a distinctive and palpable approach by re-interpreting imagery and symbolisms drawn from (but not limited to) religious iconography, quilting techniques, self-portraiture, and poetry.
"Intimate Aphorisms" showcases artists' innate desire to reflect their own truth, on their own terms.
Featured artists: Toni di Carlo,…
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Puntos De Fusión by Patricio Guillamon
- Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
- 6:30PM to 9PM
- Ch'in Kana Gallery (3rd floor)
- Free Admission
- Exhibit dates: April 17th to May 12th
Patricio Guillamon (born 1979) is a visual artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work expands from documentary photography to visual art juxtapositions that contain both his passion for photography and visual exploration.
Curator: Alejandro Meza | …
