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Rozsa Center Hosts Boston Artist Chandra Dieppa Ortiz |
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HOUGHTON - The Rozsa Center is currently hosting solo exhibit by Boston
artist Chandra Dieppa Ortiz in a solo exhibit titled, "The Record Player
Project: Fragment/Appropriate/Remix." The exhibit runs through Saturday,
April 10. Dieppa's work is powerful and colorful--contemporary in subject matter, but timeless in its honest and unflinching observation of the human condition. Ortiz was born in Patterson, NJ, in 1972, and lives and works in Boston, Mass. She received her BA from Florida State University, a post-baccalaureate degree in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a Master of Science in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art. Ortiz, known as Dieppa, works in paintings, mixed media collage and assemblage--and explores the historical and contemporary use of storytelling. Dieppa uses musical forms such as jazz, blues, and hip-hop to create complex rhythmic compositions that create emotional environments where fragments, symbols and images play against textured surfaces. Her work explores issues of race, class, gender and culture in the hopes of creating a dialogue between communities and generations by visualizing cultural armor. Dieppa believes that "cultural armor" protects by using love, humor, faith, music, stories and the telling of truths to empower and inspire each generation. Currently, Dieppa is interpreting the works of the late playwright August Wilson through collages that juxtapose the rhythm, dialect and "beautiful struggle" of the black experience in the 20th century. Dieppa currently works as an adjunct professor at Massachusetts College of Art and with Boston Public Schools as a violence prevention specialist and teacher trainer. She was recently nominated for the prestigious Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Dieppa has had solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists, Boston; the New Art Center, Newton, Mass.; La Casa De La Cultura/The Center for Latino Arts, Boston; the Boston Center for the Arts; and the Copley Society of Boston. The exhibit is free and open to the public during Rozsa Box Office hours--11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, contact the Rozsa at 487-3200 or www.rozsa.mtu.edu . For more information on Chandra Dieppa Ortiz, visit www.dieppastudio.com . |
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