Flatscreen DVD: Edra Soto
Mini-exhibit: Rachel Hewitt and Vanessa Sanchez
Opening Friday February 3, 2006 from 6pm 10pm
February 3 - Feb 25
Polvo's February show includes the work of Maria Gaspar. For this show she
will create work incorporating video, installation and 2D. Maria's conceptual
work reflects socio-cultural themes that deal with feminism, identity and display.
It examines women’s roles, particularly within the Latino community and
examines its impact on generations of women seeking to find a sense of place.
Her work seeks to find this place as a place of empowerment, ritual and transformation.
Maria will create a space that takes ownership of traditional symbols, experiences
and representations, along with their existing complexities, and recreate them
with contemporary meanings.
Maria Gaspar received
her B.F.A. from New York City’s Pratt Institute
and currently resides in Chicago. She is a public artist for the Chicago Public
Art Group and recently finished leading a Mosaic Mural Project at the Garfield
Park Conservatory and Marwen Foundation. At this time, she is developing arts
programs for the Little Village Community and teaches as an Artist-Resident
for a variety of arts organizations, including Urban Gateways, Marwen Foundation
and Pros Arts Studio. She is on the Ilinois Arts Council Roster and teaches
in many CPS Schools. She recently exhibited her work as part of the Pilsen
Open Studios Event and has an upcoming “Artists Connects” lecture
at the Art Institute of Chicago in March.
Polvo
1458 W 18th Street 1R(entrance on Laflin St.)
Chicago, IL 60608
773-344-1940
hours: saturdays from noon-5pm or by appointment