Artist Presents ‘Exhibition Of Traces’

Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery will present a talk with artist and educator Nestor Armando Gil on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Lenfest Center’s Keller Theater, followed by a reception.

Gil’s solo exhibition of mixed media works, “RASTROS (lo que se hace al andar)” [“TRACES (what you do when you walk)”], is on view from Nov. 1 through Dec. 8.

Gil’s creative practice poetically excavates his own personal history of growing up as the child of Cuban immigrants in the southern United States. He uses a wide range of materials and media to explore themes of culture and place and ask questions about movement, memory and loss. Within these themes, Gil’s art often concerns acts of passage, and the relationship between memory and myth that accompanies these acts.

“RASTROS (lo que se hace al andar)” is what Gil calls “an exhibition of traces,” examining memory, loss and ritual to “peel nostalgia’s skin back, carve out its fleshy interiors, and make room for critical remembering.”

Gil is currently an associate professor of art at Lafayette College. Gil often ideates, processes and produces work with the rotating collective of maker-collaborators known as Taller Workshop, and his work has been exhibited across the United States and around the world.

Staniar Gallery is located on the second floor of Wilson Hall. For more information, call 540-458-8861.