13th Annual Young Latino Artists (YLA 13): Everything's Going to be Okay October 3, 2008

13th Annual Young Latino Artists (YLA 13): Everything's Going to be Okay

October 3 - November 9, 2008

Young Latino Artists is noted as Mexic-Arte Museum's most exciting and energetic exhibition of the season, drawing audiences from all over Texas. This exhibition features and challenges young Latino artists under the age of 35 to create and present their vision in a reexamination of social and aesthetic norms with new and experimental mediums.

Curated by Leslie Moody Castro, the 13th Annual Young Latino Artists exhibition, Everything’s Going to be Okay, is an affirmation that it is not the tough exterior that makes us strong, but rather our own moments of vulnerability. The exhibition illustrates how our moments of weakness can turn into our greatest strengths, and that ultimately, everything will in fact be okay. The artists in this exhibition are not defined by the blood running through their veins, or their ancestral history, but rather the personal histories that they have worked through.

YLA 13 artists are Luis David Contreras II (Mission, TX), Adriana Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Cardee Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Gerardo Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Christina Garza-Mitchell (Corinth, TX), Ivan R. Lozano (Austin, TX), Nathan Orosco (Odessa, TX), Carlos Rosales-Silva (Austin, TX), Xochi Solis (Austin, TX), Lupita Murillo Tinnen (Plano, TX), Felix Anthony Trejo (Brownsville, TX), and David "Shek" Vega (San Antonio, TX).

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