The Signs Pile Up
Paintings by Pedro Álvarez
January 26 - March 29, 2008
Opening Reception: January 26, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cuban painter Pedro Álvarez (1967-2004) uses collage techniques to explore issues of colonialism, race and hybridity, and Cuban/U.S. relations during the "Special Period" in the 1990s when the collapse of the Soviet Union necessitated innovative practices of survival for Cuban artists.

Curator's Walkthru
Tyler Stallings, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lee Tusman
January 26, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery director Tyler Stallings leads a discussion of the work of Pedro Alvarez, the work in Incognegro with guest curator Julie Joyce and artist Mark Steven Greenfield, and is joined by guest curator Lee Tusman and artist Dan Duy Nguyen to discuss the work of DEMON SLAYER! UCR/California Museum of Photography from 6:30-7:30, Join Roberto Fumagalli, artist for the exhibition Cuba Va, and John Hesketh, artist of Los Angeles, as they discuss their works and artistic practice.

International Symposium
Transnational Cuba and the Myth of Isolation
March 7, 2008
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery hosts: Transnational Cuba and the Myth of Isolation, a one-day symposium held in conjunction with The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez. International scholars and art critics will join UCR faculty members to explore the racial, economic, cultural, and iconographic complexities of Cuba’s identity during the Período Especial (which occurred during the 90s) through the work of one of this generation’s leading Cuban artists, Pedro Álvarez. See Sweeney Web Site for more information about panel and lecture topics, times, and locations (http://www.sweeney.ucr.edu). Art from the Island Nation is generously supported by the Center for Ideas and Society (http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/CIS.html).

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