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The Art Gallery At The University Of Maryland Presents Streams Of Being: Selections From The Art Museum Of The Americas

March 24, 2015 University of Maryland Art Gallery | Art History and Archaeology | College of Arts and Humanities

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A Public Opening Reception Will Be Held On Wednesday, March 25th, From 5-7 P.M. At The Art Gallery, 2202 Art-Sociology.

For Immediate Release
Date: March 1, 2015

College Park, Md.—from March 25-April 25, 2015, The Art Gallery At The University Of Maryland (Umd), In Collaboration With The Art Museum Of The Americas (Ama), Present Streams Of Being: Selections from The Art Museum Of The Americas, Curated By Assistant Professor Abigail Mcewen, Department Of Art History And Archeology At Umd.

Conceived As A Teaching Exhibition, Streams Of Being Is Drawn From The Rich Permanent Collection Of ama. The Exhibition Distills The Conceptual Breadth Of Contemporary Latin American Art By Unraveling visual Itineraries That Move Across Space And Time. Featuring Forty-Five Artists From Sixteen Countries across The Americas—including Roberto Matta, Juan Downey, Mario Carreño, José Luis Cuevas, Tomie ohtake, Among Others—streams Of Being Meditates On Questions Of Existence And Embodiment Through conjunctions Of Scale And Place, Animal And Human Bodies.

Streams Of Being Took Shape Through A Semester-Long Study Of Latin American Art—with The Assistance and Participation Of Umd Art History Graduate Students—phrased Through Postcolonial Paradigms Of exile, Diaspora, Migration, And Borderlands. Throughout The Exhibition’s Four Thematic Spaces—bestiary, cosmos, Topologies, And Bodies In Exile—gallery Visitors Are Guided Through Distinct Moments That Offer visual Cues With Which To Ponder Notions Of Movement And Displacement As Well For Dwell On Crossings and Encounters Both Serendipitous And Multiply Transgressive In Kind.

A Public Opening Reception For Streams Of Being: Selections From The Art Museum Of The Americas Will Be held On Wednesday, March 25th, From 5:00pm-7:00pm At The Art Gallery, 2202 Art-Sociology Bldg., College park, Md 20742. For More Information, Please Call 301.405.2763 Or E-Mail Theartgallery@Umd.Edu. admission Is Free.