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The free program includes a conversation with contemporary artist Dominguez as he discusses his mixed-media collage titled “We Call Him Colon Nosotros le llamamos Colon,” which was created in response to Pequot Library’s “Pages from Pequot” exhibition, “Exploring America: Christopher Columbus.”
To create his mixed-media collage, Dominguez copied images from the Pequot Library’s exhibition and either juxtaposed Columbus’ image with poignant questions such as “Idiot Savant?” or obliterated Columbus’ image entirely, adding the face of a Dominican carnival mask of the devil. This portrayal adds insight to what the artist says is “the complexity of the blunt thievery and genocide that resulted from Columbus’ discoveries.”
Dominguez says that before he was a visual artist, he was a debater. “I am a creative person who loves to draw, but I also love to engage in conversations about identity, and how we identify ourselves as a nation, and as people with different ethnicities,” he said.
Dominguez’s work has been showcased in the exhibition, “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World” spanning three museums – the Studio Museum in Harlem and El Museo del Barrio, both in Manhattan, and the Queens Museum of Art.
This artist's talk is part of the larger exhibition in the "Pages from Pequot" series from Pequot Library's Special Collections, “Exploring America: Christopher Columbus.” It runs now through Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 and is open during normal library hours.
The Pequot Library is located at 720 Pequot Ave., Southport.
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