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6/21/2015

 
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Art of Esperanza Gama

6/9/2015

 

Magical Realism in the Couloir Bleu

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Wishbone is honored to feature the work of Guadalajaran artist, ESPERANZA GAMA, for the months of June and July.  The images painted with pigment on bark paper capture a particular lyrical quality that crosses from Marquez to Frida Kahlo:  an etched surrealism tracing dreams through the human form, birds and flowers.  

Other of her pieces are currently on display as part of "The House
on Mango Street:  Artists Interpret Community" at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Ms. Gama now lives here in Chicago, hardly a stone's throw from Wishbone, but she has taken her Mexican roots from the School of Fine Arts in Guadalajara to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where she has been studying print making.  But she has also been influenced by Chinese painting at the Gakukai Sumie Center in Tokyo.  All this makes for an exotic syncretism of different visual traditions.  

Her drawings, paintings, etchings and installations have been in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S., Mexico, and  internationally.  
In 2006, she became the first Latina to exhibit at the Union League Club Gallery of Chicago with a series entitled "Los Magicos."  In the same year Gama had an installation at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame as part of a national conference on Catholicism: Guadalupe, Madre de America:  Narrative, Image, and Devotion.  (Worthy of Octavio Paz!)

In this show you will see the regal eyebrows of Ms. Kahlo overlooking a garden of dreams.  The colors are enchanting; the different textures of the paper bringing the ethereal quality of the the images into the warmer regions of earth and sensuality.

Ms. Gama may be contacted through www.esperanzagama.net for visits to her studio and purchases of artworks.   Enjoy the show!

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Wishbone supports hard earned documentary

6/2/2015

 

KARTEMQUIN FILMS on Al Jazeera America

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Emilia Stancati, a waitress in Chicago and its suburbs is one of five stories tracked over a year in Kartemquin's six part documentary on life at the minimum wage. Now airing on Al Jazeera America.

The series began airing on May 3rd and on Sunday, May 31st, Wishbone is hosting food for a special gala for the directors, crew  and subjects of the series at the Chicago Cultural Center downtown.
This is a more intimate look at what lies behind the statistics:  what the challenges are of raising a family, meeting rent or a mortgage or just getting respect for the essential work being done.   The stories interweave over time and capture the hopes and dramas of people you may very well know or certainly can identify with.  A lot of lip service is given to various forms of "sustainablity" but relatively little to human sustainability in the workplace and community.  The truth is personal and usually far away from the media cameras that roll for a flash point and then move on.  The bigger story is the background to whatever "incident" triggers violence or protest.   There are certainly victims in today's America, but as this series shows, there is tremendous courage and resilience in ordinary people living their lives.  It's well worth making time for.

Kartemquin Films began as a collective in Hyde Park during the days of rage and has produced many award winning films and television series including Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, The New Americans and the terrific recent documentary on the life of Roger Ebert.   Their base is now only a few blocks away and we're honored to have them as "regulars."  It should also be noted that in the third installment of the series, the Wishbone on Washington is featured in a segment of Emilia's story.

Please check out the Kartemquin website for showings and ways to follow up on a distinguished documentary tradition-born and bred right here in Chicago.

    Guy

    The Wishbone oracle

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