Not Enough Space Opening Reception
When: Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, 6 p.m.
Where: Casa de la Raza, 601 E. Montecito St., Santa Barbara
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Exhibitions
Description: Not Enough Space features the artwork of Oscar Lopez Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres, two Puerto Rican fathers, grandfathers, self-taught artists and community organizers. Mr. Lopez Rivera and Mr. Alberto Torres have been political prisoners since 1980 and 1981, respectively, for their beliefs and actions on behalf of Puerto Rican independence. The exhibit began in 2005 as a commemoration of the 25th year of their incarceration.
The art exhibit is an education about Puerto Rican political prisoners, the reasons for their inhuman living conditions and treatment; it also provides the context of Puerto Rico’s status as a colony. It includes paintings and drawings by Mr. Lopez Rivera and the paintings and ceramics of Mr. Alberto Torres.
Their artwork speaks to the lives and spirits of two men who suffer the harsh realities of prison life, psychological torture and isolation, but who give back beauty. The exhibit brings attention to inhumane conditions endured and to love of family and of nation.
Adolfo Matos, former political prisoner, riveting poet and artist, will be the special guest speaker at both the opening ceremony at La Casa de la Raza and the pre-event at the MultiCultural Center at UCSB. Mr. Matos spent 20 years in federal prison, 14 years at USP Lompoc, for his support of Puerto Rican independence.
Not Enough Space is presented through the efforts of the National Boricua Human Rights Network and local organizing committees, including UCSB Associated Students SCORE (Student Commission on Racial Equality), La Casa de la Raza and the Yuri Kochiyama Fund for Political Prisoners. The exhibit is a community curatorial project of the Puerto Rican community of Chicago that has toured nationally and internationally since 2005.
Not Enough Space shows at La Casa de la Raza February 1-29.
Phone: 805-893-7580
Event posted Jan. 12, 2008
Last updated Jan. 14, 2008
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