Globalization & War -- The Aftermath

Images: 

Those Who Lead Children to War, 2007, Acrylic Painting & Pencil

Globalization, 2005, Acrylic Painting

Globalization & War -- The Aftermath, works by Malaquias Montoya, creates a dialogue between viewer and painter, conveying the universal story of the consequences of power and war, which includes peoples of all cultures.  This exhibition presents a mirror for viewers to see themselves in portraits that focus on the destruction of people's existence resulting in the uprooting of their lives, the result of displacement, and the loss of culture caused by corporate globalization and the tragedies of war.  In each image, we see the human spirit at its most vulnerable point, in the shadows between obliteration, devastation and survival.

Montoya is a leading figure in the West Coast political Chicano graphic arts movement, a political and socially conscious movement that expresses itself primarily through the mass production of silk-screened posters.  Montoya's works include acrylic paintings, murals, washes, and drawings, but he is primarily known for silkscreen prints, which have been exhibited nationally as well as internationally.  He is credited by historians as being one of the founders of the "social serigraphy" movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960s.  His visual expressions, art of protest, depict the struggle and strength of humanity and the necessity to unite behind that struggle.

Globalization & War -- The Aftermath, works by Malaquias Montoya, includes 23 creative works:  7 paintings on canvas and 16 works on paper.