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Credit: Mark Bryce
Above: "The Flame," a painting by San Diego artisan Mark Bryce, appearance an Uncle Sam hat sitting on a dejected box with a dimly lit candle in the foreground.
The Centro Cultural de Tijuana this ceremony opened its aboriginal exhibition of an American artisan in added than a decade, allotment of an accomplishment to activate added cross-border cultural barter in a agitated time for U.S.-Mexico relations.
The exhibition, blue-blooded "Love and War," appearance 23 paintings by San Diego-based artisan Mark Bryce. It opened Thursday evening, aloof over a ceremony afore CECUT celebrates its 35th anniversary.
Bryce's paintings accomplish abundant use of American iconography, including collages with copies of "American Gothic," "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and the photo of American Marines adopting the banderole on Iwo Jima. One painting replicates a photograph of two animated adolescent women sitting on the awning of a Chevrolet. Bryce begin the photo in a clutter boutique in Ocean Beach.
The painting blue-blooded "The Flame" shows an Uncle Sam hat sitting on a dejected box with a baby lit candle in the beginning casting a dim light.
"It's rather allegorical of where, perhaps, we are in America," Bryce said of the painting. "There's a blaze in the American people, and there's that spirit. So we appetite to accumulate that animate ... Being American is great, but we accept to do the appropriate thing, right?"
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Bryce said the American adumbration in his paintings are artlessly a absorption of who he is — he was actually built-in on the 4th of July. Some of his works do booty a analytical attending at the United States, but they are not preachy.
"The paintings accept beneath to do with backroom specifically, but added to do with altruism and the challenges we all face as animal beings," he said.
The animal capacity in Bryce's assignment are what led the building to access the artisan and adapt the exhibition.
"His assignment is actual accepted and has a actual accepted language," said CECUT Deputy Director Alan Bautista. "So I anticipate that will address a lot to the accessible here, and they'll accept what he's aggravating to acquaint us through his work. Because it's not so altered from what bodies actuality appetite or pursue."
Both Bautista and Bryce beneath to allocution anon about the aftereffect President Donald Trump has had on U.S.-Mexico relations. But Bryce said he hoped his art would atom chat and brooding in all the exhibition's visitors.
"Let's accumulate talking, let's be friends," Bryce said. "Americans are actual abstracted from their government. You can adulation your country and be American, but you don't accept to accede with what your government's doing. And I anticipate it's accurate for Mexican bodies too."
The Centro Cultural de Tijuana, or CECUT, is featuring its aboriginal exhibition of an American artisan in added than a decade. The artisan and the building both achievement it will atom chat in a agitated time for U.S.-Mexico relations.
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