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COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA ’19
     Thirteenth Annual Visual Art Exhibition

                                                          Detail: La Llorona by Alex Usquiano (Colombia)

    TAP Centre for Creativity ~ 203 Dundas Street, London, ON
           Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
              Tel: 519-642-2767 • www.tapcreativity.org
                       FREE Admission!
       Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Special Performance by The Alfredo Caxaj Latin Jazz Ensemble - 7:30 pm
             With refreshments & Latin American appetizers
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Mariana Bolaños • Mexico

                   Mariana Bolaños es             Now Toronto-based, Mexican painter,
                   una artista mexicana           sculptor and installation artist Mariana
                   residente de Toronto.          Bolaños “enjoys the process of exploration
                   Mariana ha desarrollado        guided only by mere intuition and the
                   diversas obras en pintura,     constant state of uncertainty that it brings.”
                   escultura e instalación.       Focusing on art with a social purpose, she
Centrándose en el arte con contenido              works as a facilitator in community programs,
social, ha participado como facilitadora en       engaging immigrants, women and children.
varios programas comunitarios trabajando          Mariana also actively collaborates with
con inmigrantes, mujeres y niños. De igual        the Latin American community, looking to
manera, Mariana colabora activamente en           share talents with other cultural groups. She
la comunidad Latinoamericana buscando             believes “art is a powerful tool that has the
compartir e intercambiar talentos con otros       ability to change who we are, to bring people
grupos culturales. Mariana ha participado en      closer, to heal, to communicate, and to
varias exposiciones tanto en Canadá como          impact society in the most sensitive way.”
en México.                                        Mariana Bolaños holds a Diploma in Fine
Mariana tiene un Diploma en Artes Plásticas       Arts from Centennial College (Toronto) and
por el Centennial College así como también        a Bachelor of Arts degree from Universidad
tres años de la Licenciatura en artes Plásticas   Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
en México.                                        (Mexico). She has participated in several
                                                  exhibitions and residencies in Canada, Cuba
                                                  and Mexico.
                                                  www.marianabolanos.com
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Mao Correa • Colombia

                     Mao Correa es un artista      By day, Colombian-born, Toronto-based
                     conceptual colombiano         Mao Correa wields a hammer, building
                     que vive en Toronto quien     decks for a living; by night, he fulfills his
                     por mas de 25 años ha         passion as an accomplished conceptual artist.
                     mantenido una práctica        Four years ago, Mao’s art and renovation
                     independiente expresando      skills came together for the construction of
                     a través de la creación de    a 700-squarefoot home gallery. Here you
obras eclécticas y viscerales su indignación       can find eclectic and visceral pieces that
por la falta de conciencia ambiental y             critique our frenzied consumerism and lack
el consumismo frenético. Sus pinturas,             of environmental awareness. Paintings,
ensamblajes y esculturas hechas con                assemblages and sculptures made exclusively
                                                   from cast-off materials embody the art-actions
materiales recuperados hablan de las acciones
                                                   that underlie his work: recovering, reusing,
artísticas que subyacen a su arte: recuperar,
                                                   and recycling. “I break down pre-existing
reutilizar y reciclar. Desde su llegada a Canadá
                                                   materials, reinterpret them, and offer them a
en 2013 ha establecido una carrera artística
                                                   new form with a new purpose,” says Mao.
en ascenso en Toronto y Montreal donde ha
presentado 12 exposiciones individuales, 11        In over 25 years of maintaining an
colectivas, ha recibido 4 becas artísticas, y      independent practise, Mao Correa has
fue referenciado como artistas emergente por       accrued many accomplishments, such as
el Toronto Start para también ser elegido por      selling more than 500 original paintings, and
el Toronto Arts Foundation en abril del 2016       being chosen as artist of the month by the
como el artista del mes presentado su obra         Toronto Arts Foundation. Since arriving in
en las pantallas del Dundas Square. MAO            Canada in 2013, he has enjoyed a meteoric
                                                   career in Toronto and Montreal, leading to
CORREA es el primer artista latinoamericano
                                                   more than twelve solo and eleven collective
en Toronto en transformar desde el 2015 su
                                                   exhibitions.
estudio en MAO-ART GALLERY para presentar
su obra.                                           www.maocorrea.com
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Oscar Marroquin-Ponce • El Salvador

                     Originario de El Salvador,        Originally from El Salvador, Oscar Marroquin-
                     Oscar Marroquin-Ponce es          Ponce is an up-and-coming London, Ontario
                     un prometedor artista visual de   visual artist who, for the second year, is excited
                     London, Ontario, quien está       and honoured to share creative space with his
                     emocionado y honrado de           fellow Colores de Latinoamérica exhibitors.
                     compartir este espacio creativo   Even though Oscar has lived in London
con sus compañeros expositores de Colores de           since he was a year old, he’s always been
Latinoamérica. A pesar de que Oscar ha vivido          creatively connected to his Latin American
en London desde que tenía un año, siempre ha           roots; embracing folkloric dance, ceramics and
estado conectado creativamente con sus raíces          painting. Using acrylics and different pouring
latinoamericanas; ya sea a través de la danza          mediums (silicone, oils), Oscar’s experimental
folclórica, la cerámica o la pintura.                  creations captivate his audiences’ eyes and
                                                       take them on a flowing poetic journey (an
Utilizando acrílicos y diferentes medios de mezclas
                                                       experience that Oscar calls floesia).
de pintura (silicona, aceites), las creaciones
experimentales de Oscar cautivan los ojos de su        Some of his pieces were featured in fundraising
audiencia y los lleva a un viaje poético fluido.       events for Standing Rock (the Sioux Nation’s
                                                       blockade of the controversial North Dakota oil
Aunque Colores de Latinoamérica 2018 es la             pipeline).
primera exposición de Oscar, algunas de sus obras      Also, Oscar collaborated with local hip-hop
fueron presentadas en eventos de recaudación           juggernaut Ngajuana on his album “Paintings
de fondos para Standing Rock (el bloqueo del           in Braille”.
controvertido oleoducto de Dakota del Norte por
                                                       www.facebook.com/floesia83/
parte de la nación sioux).
Más recientemente, colaboró con el cantante
y compositor local de hip-hop Ngajuana en su
próximo álbum “Paintings in Braille”.
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Michelle Peraza • Costa Rica / Cuba

                   La obra de Michelle Peraza          Michelle Peraza’s artwork reflects her
                   refleja su experiencia como         experience as a second-generation Latin
                   artista latinoamericana de          American artist from Costa Rica and Cuba, as
                   segunda generación de Costa         well as her interactions with other cultures.
                   Rica y Cuba, así como sus           She hopes her portraiture will initiate
                   interacciones con otras culturas.   discussions on a range of important
                     Ella espera que sus obras         contemporary issues, including human origins,
inicien discusiones sobre una variedad de              culture, lineage, history, skin colour, migration,
temas contemporáneos importantes, incluyendo           integration, loss of identity, and value systems
orígenes, cultura, linaje, historia, color de piel,    Michelle has just completed her program in
migración, integración, pérdida de identidad y         Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in
sistemas de valores.                                   Toronto. She holds a previous degree from
Michelle actualmente está completando su               London, Ontario’s Western University - a
programa de Dibujo y Pintura en la Universidad         specialization in Classical Studies with a minor
OCAD en Toronto. Tiene un diploma de la                in World Religions.
Universidad de Western Ontario, London, con una        www.michelleperaza.com
especialización en Estudios Clásicos y Religiones
del Mundo.
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Agustin Rolando Rojas • Cuba

                   Agustin Rolando Rojas           A highly respected Cuban printmaker who was
                   nacio en la Habana, Cuba        formally trained at Havana’s San Alejandro
                   1959. Graduado de la            Academy (1974-1978) and Higher Fine Art
                   Academia de Artes Visuales      Institute (1978-1983), Agustin Rolando Rojas
                   San Alejandro en 1978 y del     came to Canada in 1997 when he won an Artist
                   Instituto Superior de Artes     Residency at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.
                   en 1983. Se desempeña           Since then, has lived on both sides of the
como docente universitario de 1983-1996 ,          Canada-United States border. Rojas’s work is
fecha en que gana una residencia artistica en      “inspired by nature, and by the intimacy that is
el Banff Center for the Arts. Desde 1997 el        shared between human beings interacting with
artista ha estado representando a Canada en        one another.”
bienales Internacionales de Grabado asi como
                                                   Currently based in Toronto, Agustin has
impartiendo cursos especializados dentro y
                                                   successfully conducted print workshops
fuera de Canada.
                                                   around the world – from Manhattan Graphics
Las obras del artista forma parte de               in New York to Grafíske printshop in Odense,
colecciones del Museo Nacional de Bellas           Denmark – and he’s represented Canada at
Artes de la Habana, la Fundacion Joan Miro &       top International Print Biennial competitions.
Sotheby’s en Mallorca, España, Kanagawa y          His artworks are collected by many important
Hokkaido Museos de Arte en Japon, el Lowe          museums and cultural institutions, such as as
Art Museum de Miami, Acquiprint en Italia, Cluj-   National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba),
Napoca en Rumania, el Museo de la Grafica de       Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, Florida),
Uzice, Serbia y la coleccion privada Wolfgan       Hayama Modern Art Museum (Kanagawa,
Schreiner del Ludwig Museum en Alemania.           Japan) and Užice National Museum (Serbia).
                                                   www.agustinrolandorojas.com
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
Alex Usquiano • Colombia

                      Alex Usquiano es un artista         Visual artist, digital artist and photographer
                      de origen Colombiano,               Alex Usquiano has found “a new level of
                      residente en Toronto Canada.        awareness” since moving to Toronto from the
                      A traves de su trabajo, Alex        coffee region of Colombia. Drawing on over 15
                      integra diferentes técnicas a       years of experience as both a practising artist
                      la exploración de lenguajes         and an art educator, he encourages children
                      nuevos y contemporáneos del         to explore their self-expression and creativity
arte. A través de sus multiples trabajos y técnicas ,     through art. Alex also is deeply involved in
los espectadores encuentran muchas referencias a          community arts, because “I am at a point in my
la historia del arte, entre ellas, el surrealismo, neo-   life where I feel that my way to be socially and
futurismo y novela fantástica, todo esto inmerso en       civically responsible is by offering my talents to
la creación de mundos increíbles y poéticos. En su        the service of the community.”
trabajo, Alex establece una perspectiva interesante,
donde invita al espectador a ver su trabajo de            Alex perceives the world in different ways:
diferentes formas cada ves que se esta expuesto           sometimes with tender optimism; other times
a este; algunas veces nos presenta el mundo en            with straightforward criticism. Driven by an
el que vivimos con un optimismo tierno y otras            interior need – as opposed to a stylistic formula
veces con una critica directa. Su estilo se entiende      – his artwork is best approached as a collection
mejor, cuando se aprecia como una colección de            of liminal images created in the realm between
imágenes entre fotografía y pintura y entre poesía y      photography and painting, and between poetry
realidad.                                                 and reality, with many references to the history
                                                          of art, including Surrealism, Neo-Futurism
Alex tiene mas de 15 anos trabajando en las               and Fantasy. Although Alex’s aesthetics and
artes, tanto como practica individual así como un         technique have changed over time, his curiosity
educador artístico. Alex usa sus talentos en pintura,     and freedom to question have remained firmly
performance, dibujo y fotografía para promover            intact. He especially likes to challenge the ideas
el amor por las artes y para animar a niñ@s a que         of old-school artists by showing that “digital art
encuentren formas de auto-expresion y exploren            has the capacity to be as beautiful, terrifying and
su creatividad. Alex también es un fotógrafo y            wonderful as any form of traditional art.”
diseñador gráfico.
                                                          www.alexusquiano.com
COLORES DE LATINOAMÉRICA '19 - January 22 - February 2, 2019 - Sunfest
World Music & Jazz Series 2018 - 19

Salsa Party & Dance
                                                            featuring Toronto’s

                                     YANI BORRELL
                                             & ORCHESTRA
                                                        plus D.J. between sets
                                                  Co-presented by

                                                                                  www.yaniborrell.com

    Saturday, January 26, 2019
      Doors at 7:00 pm ~ Concert/Dance at 8:00 pm ~ Dress Code in Effect
                     $28.50 Advance ~ $35.00 Door
                                       (taxes included - service charges extra)

                    London Music Hall, 185 Queens Avenue, London
  Tickets available at London Music Hall Box Office (519-432-1107), Centennial Hall Box Office (519-672-1967),
Long & McQuade North, The Village Idiot (Wortley Village), and online at sunfest.on.ca or londonmusichall.com

                               Information: 519-432-1107 or info@sunfest.on.ca
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