Mesa-born Photographer Pedro Guerrero Gets Some Unexpected Attention In Maine

Art Talk at the Farnsworth

Unexpected Journeys: Louise Nevelson and Pedro Guerrero

Posted:  Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 8:00pm   

Event Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 2:00pm

On Thursday, December 7, the Farnsworth Art Museum will present a talk by Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky entitled Unexpected Journeys: Louise Nevelson and Pedro Guerrero.

The program will take place at 2 p.m. in the museum's auditorium.

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The sculptor Louise Nevelson and photographer Pedro Guerrero both reached the peaks of their chosen professions, though their paths to success were anything but expected. Both came from humble origins. Leah Berliawsky came as a young girl with her family from the present-day Ukraine to settle in Maine, joining her father who had come a few years earlier; and Pedro Guerrero grew up in the "dusty desert town" of Mesa, Arizona, shortly after Arizona became a state.

Nevelson, a Jewish immigrant from the Russian empire, did not gain citizenship until 1920 when she married an American.

Guerrero's family had been in Arizona since the 1870s, yet his experience was shaped by the ways in which being of Mexican heritage was viewed by the community in which he lived.

This presentation will explore the nature of their work, the reputations they forged during their long and productive careers, and how their early life experiences shaped their artistic personae.

The fee for this program is $10, and $8 for Farnsworth members.

For more information or to register, please visit www.farnsworthmuseum.org 

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Noted in Passing:

Pedro Guerrero, Who Captured Art in Photos, Dies at 95

By WILLIAM YARDLEYSEPT. 13, 2012

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-captured-another-dimension-of-art.html