Ruffin Gallery's current visiting artist, Camilo Leyva Espinel, will be giving an artist talk next Wednesday, January 24 at 6:00pm in Ruffin 206 (Photo classroom). Leyva Espinel makes participatory installations and sculptures that focus on how memory and stories stay latent within matter and context, exploring how those memories can be revealed through a material statement and its subsequent interaction with the public. Along with speaking about his own practice, Leyva Espinel will present on the work of sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, a key figure in Colombian Modern Art. Leyva Espinel will discuss Bursztyn's influence on his own practice and studies. Camilo Leyva Espinel received an MFA at Parsons the New School for Design and an MA in Art History form Andes University in Colombia.
Image 1: Camilo Leyva Espinel, Again_, 2018. Photo by Oscar Monsalve