Tijuana Tavolettas

Tijuana Tavolettas, an installation of sculpture by Micaela Amato, will be a solo show in Saint Mary's College Hammes-Gallery from October 6- November 3, 2000. Ms. Amato will be Artist in Residence from October 3-6 and will present a lecture at 6:00 pm, on Friday, October 6, in Moreau Center for the Arts; Room 232. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Ms. Amato utilizes a variety of materials -- paint, neon, photography, glass, and wood. She combines images from Anglo and Hispanic culture to create multilayered works called tavolettas -- two-sided paintings produced during the Inquisition, said to transform the condemned and bring them spiritual peace at the moment of death.

Ms. Amato describes her installation as "a miraculous dream where apparitions provoke myths, history and memory, and where non sequiturs punctuate the silence with an unrest, a disquieting, a shudder: a deep song."

Ms. Amato is a graduate of the Boston University School for the Arts ('68) and holds an MFA from the University of Colorado. She is a 1988 recipient of an award in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tijuana Tavolettas is part of the group exhibition; "Mi Alma, Mi Tierra, Mi, Gente: Contemporary Chicana Art." The entire exhibition will also open October 6, 2000 and run to November 3, 2000 in the Little Theatre Gallery--Moreau Hall.

The group exhibition was planned in conjunction with this year's academic theme; "Chicana 2000: Emerging Voices." These exhibitions, curated by a committee of Saint Mary's students and faculty will consider the political, domestic and spiritual themes of five celebrated Chicana Artists.