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| TONY MENDOZA |
| The Schoolhouse Galleries 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA 02657 508.487.4800 PRESENT
Friday, August 20 - Wednesday, September 1, 2004
RECEPTION: Friday, August 20 7-10 PM
The Schoolhouse Galleries are pleased to present photographs from Tony Mendoza from August 20 - September 1. There will be a reception on Friday, August 20 from 7-10 PM
TONY MENDOZA was born in Havana, Cuba in 1941. He left for Miami with his family in 1960. He bought his first camera at age eleven and continued photographing through grammar school, high school, Yale University (Bachelor of Engineering), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Master of Architecture).
In 1973 to the dismay of his creditors and relatives, he turned full time to the pursuit of photography as art.
Since then his work has been exhibited and published widely. He is the author of five books, including Cuba: Going Back (1999), Stories (1987), and Ernie (1985). He has received three National Endowment For The Arts Fellowships. A Guggenheim Photography Fellowship, as well as two Creative Writing Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council (He is the only artist in Ohio to receive Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in three separate mediums: photography, video and creative writing.). His photographs are in the collections of major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA., and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
He teaches photography at Ohio State University.
For this exhibition he will present works from STORIES, a continuing body of photographic images with text that were first compiled for a book of the same name.
STORIES is a series of single and groups of images that are presented with text underneath the pictures, as part of the final artwork. The text drives the images in a buoyant and lively way, often subscribing to the magical realism of his Latin heritage. Mendoza writes directly from the center of his experience, whether it is his decision to live life as an artist, his relationships, travels or family life. In STORIES Mendoza uses beautiful images that are personal yet also have the quality of being a shared secret, a blown up snapshot from a scrapbook of lost moments brought to life again.
The Schoolhouse Galleries are located at 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown's East End gallery District. For information or to interview the artists please contact Mike Carroll at 508.487.4800 X 105 or email mcarroll@schoolhousecenter.com .
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