Masters Student Dilenia Garcia Displays Art at the University of Arkansas

University Programs will host an art exhibit by Masters of Fine Arts student Dilenia Garcia, Monday, February 25 through Friday, March 8 in the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery, located in the University of Arkansas Union. 

This event is free to current University of Arkansas Fayetteville students through the Student Activities Fee, and students must show university ID for entrance. Admission for general public is free and contingent upon seating availability. For special accommodations due to disability, please contact the Office of Student Activities, osa@uark.edu or call 479-575-5255.

Garcia is a masters of fine arts student at the University of Arkansas. Garcia has previously exhibited at Get Ready at Art Basel and the Alexandria Museum of Art. She was shown in the Latin American Contemporary Artists 2012 exhibition in Pittsburg, Kansas and is currently participating in a group show at the Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University. Her exhibition Holy Bananas!, is a selection of artworks completed in 2012 and 2013 that includes techniques like collage and latex paintings on canvas and spray paintings on paper. The work seeks out and questions the constructions of meaning, found in the fabrics and considers how contemporary norms of taste and values might be shaped by this legacy.  The paintings employ paradox, irony and humor to expose themes of identity, stereotypes, sexism and exoticism.

This event is sponsored by University Programs Art Gallery Committee. For more information on this event, contact University Programs Art Gallery Coordinator Lana Hackler at upart@uark.edu or (479)575-5255.