Artist Gabo Mendoza Show Opens, Thursday, June 16 at Galeria Arte de Oaxaca

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Your invitation to join Gabo Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.
Your invitation to join Gabo this Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.

I’ve written about Gabriel “Gabo” Mendoza before. His work might seem whimsical at first look. But it is filled with meaning, emotion, character and ripe for interpretation.

Woven handmade paper painted with a child's scream or song. You decide.
Woven handmade paper painted with a child’s scream or song. You decide.

Gabo’s subjects are street people, many representing the underbelly of Mexico: poverty, disenfranchisement, sex workers who are mothers, children who are homeless, uneducated and uncared for.

Young boys on the street with artist Gabo Mendoza
Young boys (or are they men?) on the street with artist Gabo Mendoza
Dreaming of bicycles and a way to get away
Dreaming of bicycles and a way to get away

Gabo plays with language in his paintings. Words and parts of words appear and trail off the paper or canvas, giving a sense of incompleteness, impermanence. Bici is Spanish for bicycle. Where’s the B in the painting above? Broken off or away or a shadow or dream?

The family comes together as a unit of friends, substitute for those who are absent
The family comes together as a unit of friends, substitute for those who are absent
Portrait of Gabo Mendoza in his Xicotencatl workshop taller
Portrait of Gabo Mendoza in his Xicotencatl workshop taller
Doesn't every child want a puppy to play with? or maybe it's a goat!
Doesn’t every child want a puppy to play with? or maybe it’s a goat!
And they went into the ark, two by two, one male, one female ...
And they went into the ark, two by two, one male, one female …
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