The work of multimedia artist Pete Hoffecker Mejía will be on display at the Linfield Art Gallery from Aug. 29-Sept. 30, 2022. An artist talk and opening reception is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31 in Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian Bull Music Center. Light refreshments will follow in the gallery. Both the monthlong exhibition and the opening reception are free and open to the public.
The exhibition, titled “Remainders,” blends patterns of Latin American visual culture, home décor and modern geometric art using wood, found objects and mixed media structures.
Gallery hours are from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12-5 p.m. Saturday. The Linfield Art Gallery is located in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center on the Linfield University McMinnville Campus.
“In these structures I am interested in exploring the intersections of cultural information, hierarchies of representation and the politics of abstraction,” Hoffecker Mejía said. “The found and the fabricated, caricature and the sincere, historical and the ahistorical, all collide and collude. In this way, I create a record of blurred points of contact, and a narrative acknowledging alternate lineages of visual abstraction.”
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, and raised in the United States, Hoffecker Mejía received his BFA from the University of Memphis and an MFA from Indiana University. His work has appeared in print and online magazines including New American Paintings and Create! Magazine. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow School of Art and the Vermont Studio Center. He is currently an assistant professor at Western Oregon University.
“‘Remainders’ is a visual call to see the organized beauty that can be made from the fragments, chaos and contrast of these times,” said Thea Gahr, the Linfield Gallery curator. “We live in a world through which people’s cultures and environments globally have been undone. We both feel and experience it in the mass migrations on one level and in our own families’ divisions on another level. This exhibition exemplifies what it might look like to take the pieces of all those divisions and organize them into new structures and ways of being.”
Learn more about the performing and fine arts at Linfield at linfield.edu/arts.
Directions to Linfield Art Gallery: The gallery is located in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center on the Linfield University campus. To reach the gallery from 99W, turn east on Keck Drive at the McMinnville Market Center in south McMinnville. Turn right at the first street onto Library Court. The gallery is in the second building on the left, Building B. Parking is available on the street and in the lot west of Nicholson Library.