The current exhibit at the McCree-Goudeau Gallery, 930 Marin Street, Vallejo, CA 94590, will close Sunday, October 26, 2008. We invite you to a very special closing event. Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:00pm. Featured artist, Tony Gleaton, renowned photogher, will give an artist talk accompanied by Ale Chano, a musician native to Mexico’s Costa Chica region.
WHO: Tony Gleaton presents an exquisite sampling, 15 of the 45 piece traveling show “Africa’s Legacy in Mexico”. Mr. Gleaton is the internationally renowned photographer showing in the featured artist wing of the McCree-Goudeau Gallery. Tony Gleaton, impressed with the rich diversity of community, generously requested that Texas Technical University reach out to Vallejo through the loan of these portraits from TTU’s special collection archives. These images are crafted with the care of the fashion photographer, Tony’s startup career. Mr. Gleaton depicts the richness of ordinary people whose extraordinary Mexican visages unmistakably trace ancestry to the slaves brought to Vera Cruz Mexico by Spaniards 500 years ago.
Three other artistic voices add textural harmony to
“Africa’s Legacy in Mexico”.
Marsha Klein speaks to the Mexican texture of Tony Gleaton’s work with oil paintings from her “Our Lady of the Roses” series. This Lady, also known as The Madonna of Guadalupe, a dark-skinned “Madonna Moreno,” is beloved by the indigenous people. Roses are the flower of impact in the first visions of this spiritual icon. Marsha is a regional artist from Sonoma Ca, who also works extensively in ceramics.
The African texture in Mexico is addressed in two additional voices; Arthur Moura a multi-media artist of Portuguese decent who arrived in Estado Unidos by way of the Antilles Islands off the coast of Venezuela. Mr. Moura’s Sculptural Masks echo the character of Africa’s masks
Cleven “Goodie” Goudeau joins these new friends in the M-G Gallery where he regularly shows the thread of his work. His works in this show are strong, simply stated Black and White prints that look like stenciled spirits from genetic memories of untrammeled history tracing back to Africa.
The musical harmonies are brought by Musician Ale Chano, born in 1978 in Los Metates, a small village in the southwestern state of Guerrero. The Village is made up of 10 to 15 small mud stick and tree huts. His grandmother, Ester Jarquin Cruz was the “curandera” or healer of the village. His great grandfather was mentioned in a “corridor” or “story song” in the “Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica” by John Mcdowell. Ale Chano became interested in his heritage as an Afro-Mexican when he was taking an anthropology course at Santa Rosa Junior College. His focus was the African presence and growth during the colonial era in Mexico.
EXHIBIT CURATOR: Susan Alexander, Art Consultant,
Artists’ representative
WHAT “Africa’s Legacy in Mexico,” the Opening Reception ~ FREE
(Donations graciously accepted)
Also Featured: Marsha Klein, Arthur Moura and
Cleven Goudeau, Entertainment by Ale Chano
WHEN: Exhibit Runs; September 13th to October 26th
Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday 1:00 to 7:00
Sunday 1:00 – 5:00
WHERE: The NEW McCree-Goudeau Gallery, 930 Marin Street – Vallejo, Ca 94590
PHONE: 707. 246-4991
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