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Rafael Francisco Salas exhibit opens Feb. 3
College Days Staff
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Opening Feb. 3, Ripon's Caestecker Art Gallery will showcase paintings and drawings by Rafael Francisco Salas. The display, titled "Weary Memories," will run through March 6.
Salas' work is already familiar to the Ripon area. Some of his pieces are part of the college's permanent collection, and in June he was part of a group collection on exhibit at downtown's Eye of the Arts Gallery.
He has also had exhibitions around the country, namely in New York, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Salas originally studied studio art at the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy. He then earned his bachelor's degree in art and education from Minnesota's Macalester College.
The New York Academy of Art granted him a master's in painting in 2003.
He has since taught drawing at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He has also taught art to classes ranging from the elementary to the collegiate level in New York, New Mexico and Minnesota.
Salas' art includes an assortment of portraits, still lifes and landscapes. "Weary Memories" is representative of his work in general, in which he seeks to give voice to the void within humans. His portraits contain specific details but the content are virtually interchangable, while the landscapes he paints are dynamic and evoke an air of anticipation.
"The past haunts me. It continually transforms the truth, what must have been. My art describes the ghostly romance of memory, the longing that the past creates and reflects on these traps of nostalgia," says the artist of his work.
The exhibit is supported by the Marcus Fund and the Communicating Plus program. It opens Feb. 3 with an artist's reception at 7 p.m.
Salas' exhibit is free of charge. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. For more information please contact Gallery Director Eugene Kain at 920-748-8110.