'Myths and Tails' exhibit in Puerto Rico: A wide variety of graphic print techniques
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| Published on Friday, February 20, 2009 |
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By María Miranda Sierra
Caribbean Net News Puerto Rico Correspondent
Email: miranda@caribbeannetnews.com
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Born in Maryland, raised in the US east coast and living in Puerto Rico for the past seven year talented graphic artist Marga Silvestre is getting ready to present her first solo show “Myths and Tails” on February 26 at the Guatibiri Gallery in Río Piedras.
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The exhibit, which will open at 7 pm, will run through March 11.
The work of “Myths and Tails” was developed while Silvestre was obtaining her BFA at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Old San Juan, and represents a survey of a wide variety of print techniques including woodcut, silkscreen, stone and polyester plate, lithography, copper, photo intaglio and silk aquatint.
Born in Maryland and raised in the US east coast, Silvestre originally arrived to Puerto Rico in 1998 to work with the Vieques Humane Society and Animal Shelter.
“Despite the fact that I was caught in a cultural ‘no go zone’ created by the US Navy’s occupation of Vieques, I managed to fall hopelessly in love with the island, both the culture and the people,” Silvestre said. “My experiences at the Humane Society and later work with endangered species in Ecuador became an important creative influence. Those experiences, mixed with my love of both cultural and personal mythologies, came to form the central core of my work.”
Silvestre was drawn to study printmaking, because of the unique and intensely important role that it has placed in recent Puerto Rican history.
“I saw an opportunity to work with and learn from true masters at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. As a former student of Consuelo Gotay, Luis Abraham Ortiz, Haydee Landing, Ada Rosa Rivera and Orlando Salgado and as a current member of the Jornada de Gráfica, I feel that I have found my kindred spirits in the printmakers of Puerto Rico,” Silvestre added.
The young artist is committed to playing an active role in her adopted community, and has recently begun a masters program at the Center of Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in archaeology, which she understands will not only feed and inspire her continued plastic work, but will provide her with a way to participate in the preservation and enrichment of “our knowledge about Puerto Rican cultural heritage.”
Silvestre’s works have been exhibited in a number of collective exhibitions including at the Museo de Puerto Rico and the Circa 2006 Art Fair. | | | | Reads : 719 | | | |
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