Good Library to display works by Ramiro Rodriguez during Hispanic Heritage Month

Exhibit: Forma – Paintings and Prints by Ramiro Rodriguez
Dates: Aug. 26 to Sept. 25, 2009
Artist's reception: Sunday, Sept. 6, 2:30-4 p.m.
Location: Goshen College Good Library Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public
Event sponsors: Multicultural Affairs Office; the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning; and Harold and Wilma Good Library

GOSHEN, Ind. –During Hispanic Heritage Month, Ramiro Rodriguez's images depicting his evolving roles as an artist, husband, father, son and brother will be featured in the exhibit,"Forma: Paintings and Prints," in the Goshen College Good Library Gallery from Aug. 29 to Sept. 25. There will be a reception on Sunday, Sept. 6, from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Rodriguez is the exhibit coordinator for the Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame.

The exhibit will consist of figurative oil paintings on canvas, black and white relief wood block prints and small color wood block prints. Most of Rodriguez's works incorporate scenes and imagery inspired by family and family life.

The paintings and prints in Forma deal with ancestral relationships. The works pose questions and/or make observations about familial relationships and the hopes, dreams and fears and are configured and presented in his lines and strokes.

"These prints and paintings started as a way for me to process the impact my sons have on my perception of the world I inhabit," Rodriguez said. "Seeing the world through their fresh eyes has fired the need for me to record and pass along these fleeting moments of life that can be so easily missed. At the same time I see this process as an age-old desire to mythologize a life and history and therefore connect the microcosm of my little family to the macrocosm of the human family."

This exhibit is sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office; the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning; and the Harold and Wilma Good Library. It is free and open to the public.

The Library Gallery, located on the lower level of the Harold and Wilma Good Library on the campus of Goshen College, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 11 p.m. Sunday.

– By Julie Weirich

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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