Opening Reception: LEO GARCIA – My Alien Abduction: Prints & Assemblage

In My Alien Abduction, Garcia creates enigmatic symbology to mythologize the acts of abduction and appropriation. It’s madness, really … and it’s served with wine, cheese, a raffle and short works by aspiring writers/performers.

My Alien Abduction is Garcia’s pursuit to recover that which was taken from him … from a culture and a people. He does this through the manipulation of a digital program that in and of itself is a device of appropriation.

The result is a series of images that serves the myth of power by taking back his own. This is an act of re-appropriation that deals with abduction of land, self and alien abduction.

http://www.myalienabduction.net/
http://www.leogarcia.com/

Sponsored by Tsimayo Hot Sauce
http://tsimayo.com/
Tsimayo Hot Sauce, organically grown New Mexican chile made with love by descendants of Bernardo Abeyta, founder of Santuario de Chimayo c. 1813.

Includes works by Libertad Castro, Nick Mata, Tyr Jung and Jonathan Osborn

Opening Event: February 4, 7.30-9pm
On View: February 4 – March 5

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Leo Garcia is a visual artist, performance curator, filmmaker, producer, actor and an award-winning playwright and has served as Highways Performance Space’s Artistic Director since 2003, where he has developed and presented over 700 performance works. His work is Influenced by the didactic of agitprop and inspired by the optimism of naiveté. For more on Garcia and his work, visit www.leogarcia.com.