Opening Art Reception: “Nostalgic Varnishes”

From the venue:

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum on Saturday, October 28, from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. to celebrate a new art show by Yari J. Mena. There will be free art, music and light refreshments.

Festivities will commence in partnership with Hapeville’s annual Day of the Dead Celebration at Jess Lucas Park.

From the artist: “Nostalgic Varnishes” is a visual memoir of works created by altering photographs from my personal and family archives.

I introduce collage, laser cutters, and solvents to photographs exchanged by my parents and grandparents. New subjects are also presented: my immediate and extended family members in Mexico, old family friends, and my younger self. Both new subjects and developed techniques collaborate to chronicle a familiar, and also idealized, story for many immigrant households: a tale of a family separated by time, distance, and cultural differences yet bound together by effort, love, and an unspoken duty to each other that transcends borders.