Frida Kahlo has become the best known Mexican female artist, her self-portraits and autobiographical works are studied and admired. However, beyond Fridamania are her female contemporaries, both Mexican and those exiled to Mexico after WWII.
This retrospective on Kahlo’s contemporaries will include Surrealist artists Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington figures of Mexico’s cultural milieu in the post-revolutionary period and Tina Modotti, Maria Izquierdo, and others who helped shape the idea of Mexicanidad (Mexico’s cultural identity).
Alessandra Moctezuma earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts (Painting/Printmaking) degrees from UCLA. She is a Ph.D.candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from State University in New York, Stony Brook. Moctezuma is Professor of Fine Arts and Gallery Director at San Diego Mesa College, where she teaches the Museum/Gallery Studies A.A. / Certificate Program and Chicano Art.
Light refreshments will be served. No refunds.
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