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Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery

Exhibition Detail Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar: Auto de Fé Curated by: Randy Figures Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery 934 Valencia Street at 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 October 20th, 2007 - October 30th, 2007 Opening: October 20th, 2007 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
	Otto Aguilar, La Belleza y sus Expectros, Pastel and Graphite on paper © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, La Espera en la Alfombra Roja, Pastel, Graphite, Chalk © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Los Expectros de Magdalena, Charcoal, Chalk © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Adam #4, Pastel, Chalk © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Auto de Fé, Acrylic on paper © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Azotadas por los Recuerdos, Pastel, Chalk on paper © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Muchacha, Pastel, Chalk on paper © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Las Tres Gracias que el Tiempo se Llevó #3, Pastel, Chalk on paper © Otto Aguilar Otto Aguilar, Auto de Fé, detail, acrylic on paper © Otto Aguilar	< \|\| >

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NEIGHBORHOOD:

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EMAIL:

randy@backtothepicture.com

PHONE:

(415) 826-2321

OPEN HOURS:

M-Sa 10-6, Sun 12-5

TAGS:

figurative, abstract, surrealism, painting, drawing, conceptual, mixed-media, nudes, Catholic, latin-american

COST:

Free and Open to the Public

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Auto de Fé

Pastels and Paintings by Otto Aguilar

October 20 through October 30, 2007

Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery - 934 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery welcomes Berkeley artist Otto Aguilar in Auto de Fé, a solo exhibition in which the Nicaraguan-born artist reflects upon what it means to be Catholic, gay, and Latin American. Through varying uses of intensely and subtely contrasting colors, textures, and lines, Aguilar expresses sensuality through his lovingly-rendered figure studies, but always with a dark, brooding undertone. Aguilar paints inner conflict and tension expressively and with a hint of diabolical glee, overlaying traditional Catholic imagery with his abstracted backgrounds, his version of a fiery afterlife.