PRIMERA LUZ:

Photographs by Mariana Yampolsky

Curated by Enrique Fernández Cervantes

Opening Reception: Friday, May 11 (6-8 PM)

The photographic works of Mariana Yampolsky, one of the most prominent and influential artists of Mexico, is featured in this exhibition. The art of Ms. Yampolsky is well known in Mexico, the United States and Europe.

Ms. Yampolsky received her Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Humanities from the University of Chicago and the School of Painting and Sculpture "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. Before she became a photographer, Ms. Yampolksy worked as an engraver in the Taller de la Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), founded in Mexico City in the early 1940's by artists who produced social and political art for the masses.

A number of Ms. Yampolsky's photographs have been exhibited in Dallas, but only as part of collective exhibitions with other photographers that included well known and respected artists such as Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Lola Álvarez Bravo (from whom she took photography classes in the San Carlos Academy of Arts in Mexico). PRIMERA LUZ features, for the first time in Dallas, a major collection of Ms. Yampolksy's work alone. The images featured in this show were selected from different photographic series, including "The Edge of Time," "Mazahua," and "Image-Memory."

This exhibit is supported by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Mexico City's Centro de la Imagen, CONACULTA of Mexico (National Council for Culture and the Arts) and Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery.

A curatorial essay and exhibition catalog is available.

MAY OF THE AMERICAS, 2001

1925-2002

Gracias, Mariana por tu arte y las memorias - EFC