Maria Lau

"Latinos Forge Distinctive Identity"

August 08, 2008

Repeating Islands: 6 New Jersey Latino Artists. Where: Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 68 Elm St., Summit. When: Through Aug. 29. visit artcenternj.org.

"We've reached the point now in the United States where Latino artists demonstrate a kind of layering about identity and culture that meshes into the dominant society, but with a distinct twist," says Alejandro Anreus, former curator at the Jersey City Museum, now associate professor of art history and Latin American studies at William Paterson University.

...you really get a sense of the multiple scrims of meaning Latino art embodies with the photographers in this show...Jersey City photographer Maria Lau is showing four double exposures of Havana streets that are quite literally layered. Printed in sepia tones, suggesting the bell jar atmosphere of Castroid Cuba, they illustrate her Cuban-Chinese heritage and the neighborhoods that sustain it.

Read more at: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/08/summer_show_in_summit_features.html


"Latinos Forge Distinctive Identity"

August 08, 2008

Repeating Islands: 6 New Jersey Latino Artists. Where: Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 68 Elm St., Summit. When: Through Aug. 29. visit artcenternj.org.

"We've reached the point now in the United States where Latino artists demonstrate a kind of layering about identity and culture that meshes into the dominant society, but with a distinct twist," says Alejandro Anreus, former curator at the Jersey City Museum, now associate professor of art history and Latin American studies at William Paterson University.

...you really get a sense of the multiple scrims of meaning Latino art embodies with the photographers in this show...Jersey City photographer Maria Lau is showing four double exposures of Havana streets that are quite literally layered. Printed in sepia tones, suggesting the bell jar atmosphere of Castroid Cuba, they illustrate her Cuban-Chinese heritage and the neighborhoods that sustain it.

Read more at: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/08/summer_show_in_summit_features.html