Retratos y Cuentos: Maceo Montoya October 12, 2007

Montoya’s work often deals with Mexican immigrants. However, his goal is not to represent an overarching experience or identity but to give a specific human face – as a simple meditative portrait or as an elaborate series of intertwining compositions – to those he identifies with and feels intimately connected. He is not an immigrant or poor, yet he sees himself as a citizen of a world dominated by poverty, hunger, toil, war, and death. He chooses to tell stories both reflecting and revealing that reality, from the subtle to the confrontational.

Montoya will also be a part of CMAS’ Platicarte Series on October 10 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm at the Texas Union, Chicano Culture Room (4.206) at The University of Texas at Austin. The title of his presentation is “Immigrant Narratives: Painting as Fiction”.

You may visit www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas for more information. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Fine Arts, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Center for African and African American Studies of The University of Texas at Austin.

Official Website: http://www.lapena-austin.org/