<p style="text-align: center;"><b>March 18 – May 7, 2011</b></p>
The tragedies of the barrio and its constant struggle with poverty, drug abuse and lack of benefits, comes crying out in this exhibition featuring Rodriguez and Nuñez. Their images are haunting with the use of Art Brut imagery and carefully crafted style reminiscent of de Kooning and Basquiat. Rodriguez portrays individuals shrouded in cocoons of their own insanity, mental patients drifting in their own world and never fully treated because of lack of mental health care in their community. Nuñez gives voice to the Latino immigrants, trapped in a prison of injustice that has made them criminals. Nuñez portrays these people in disfigured and abstract forms that blur the lines with their background; at times accompanying text further punctuates the messages of discrimination countered by images of resistance.