Friday, September 23, 2011

New Photographs to be Exhibited at Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Exhibits

Beginning September 30 and running through mid-November two new photographs from my series Embracing the Light:Perspectives on Mortality will be on exhibit at galleries in Lubbock, Texas for the annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration.

The Buddy Holly Center’s Fine Art Gallery will open their exhibit, Celebración, Friday, September 30.  The exhibit will run through Sunday, November 6 and will be exhibiting my photograph The Eldest Child, 2011. The photograph was made at a cemetery on the Brandon Hall Plantation north of Natchez, Mississippi. The small cemetery is the resting place of eight of the Brandon’s twelve children. Seven of these children died in their youth before the death of their parents, with six of them dying before becoming teenagers. A few years ago, someone that visited the cemetery took enough of an interest so as to develop a website detailing a history of the family, including the stories of how each of the children died.  It’s a very interesting!
  
The International Cultural Center at Texas Tech University will open their Día de los Muertos exhibit, Friday, October 21.  The exhibit will run through Thursday, November 17 and will be exhibiting my photograph San Juan Mission Cemetery #1, 2009.  It was made near Farmington, New Mexico and exhibits hundreds of white crosses marking the nameless graves of Navaho Indians.  The cemetery dates to the early twentieth-century.
  
Both exhibits will be part of the annual Día de los Muertos Procesión, to be held in Lubbock on Friday, October 28 from 5pm – 10pm. 
  
The Buddy Holly Center’s Fine Art Gallery (806-775-3560) is located at 1801 Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, Texas.  The gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm and Sunday 1pm – 5pm.
  
The International Cultural Center at Texas TechUniversity (806-742-3667) is located at 601 N. Indiana Avenue in Lubbock, Texas.  The gallery is open Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm. 
   
The Eldest Child, 2011
25.6 in X 17.1 inches (65.1 X 43.6 cm)
Copyright 2011 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.
   

San Juan Mission Cemetery #1, 2009
25.9 X 17.3 inches (65.8 X 43.9 cm)
Copyright 2009 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.

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