A new exhibit titled Milagros and Memories is open now through Nov. 12 at the
Sausalito Center for the Arts. It features iconic latin american artists like the late Michael Roman, who designed artwork & clothing for both Carlos Santana and Madonna before eventually becoming a legendary figure in the Latin American art scene and a major influence for San Francisco-based artists.
Carlos Santana himself, a long-time supporter of Latin American artists, visited the exhibit recently to celebrate the work, even wearing a series of his Michael Roman shirts.
“This is really a great exhibition,” Santana says. “We should do more to show
multi-dimensional, new paradigm, and new narrative art such as this… We need hope
and courage, we need (as Bob Marly says) new vibration. But, more than anything, we
need enthusiasm–which is what fuels creativity. If you are enthusiastic, you can create.
Youngsters need to learn how to be enthusiastic, which will make them creative.”
On Nov. 12th, Talavera Ballón, an SF based oil painter and muralist, will be appearing at the Sausalito Center for the Arts to discuss his work, “Stories of Migration Told through Art.”
The Milagros and Memories exhibition shares the voice and the spirit of contemporary Bay Area Mexican American & Latino artists. The gripping and highly symbolic art represents a complex and dynamic culture that pulls elements from its historical Mexican, Latin, and indigenous roots, all presented with a modern twist.
Artists exhibited include: Juana Alicia Araiza, Carmen Lomas Garza, Juan Fuentes, Michael Roman, Calixto Robles, Michael V. Rios, Emanuel Montoya, Emanuel Paniagua, Ester Hernandez, Ozono Tirso Araiza, Talavera Ballón, Isidoro Angeles, Ernesto Olmos, Vladimir Cuevas, Oscar Morales, Karina Ramirez-Cortez, and Sol Navarrete.
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