EVOKE Contemporary opens its two-part Summer Salon exhibit with an emphasis on the artwork of Patrick McGrath Muñiz. A symbolist painter who has re-contextualized the Roman Catholic retablo as an armature for commentary on neoliberal globalization, capitalism, colonialism and neocolonialism, consumerism, and climate change. With a visual literacy that uses not only religious iconography, but Mesoamerican mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, the tarot, and his own set of personal symbols, Muñiz creates densely layered paintings meant to confront the historic amnesia that affects us all.
Other artists in the Summer Salon Part l exhibit include Lynn Boggess, Francis DiFronzo, Gregory Ferrand, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Nicholas Herrera, Louisa McElwain, Gugger Petter, Judith Stewart, Kent Williams, and Harriet Yale Russell.
