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Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery is presenting “Quiero Ir pa’l monte (I want to go to the mountains),” a solo exhibition by artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz. The exhibit is on view from Oct. 28 through Dec. 13.
Raimundi-Ortiz is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work pulls from 17th- and 18th-century European portraiture, comic books, sketch comedy, folkloric dance and installation to address race, bias, trauma and healing.
“Quiero Ir pa’l monte” is the result of a recent journey Raimund- Ortiz made to her ancestral homeland of Puerto Rico and inspired by the winding countryside road trips she took with her sister as her tour guide. The exhibit features large-scale charcoal and pastel studies of plants and trees adapted from photos Raimund-Ortiz took on her trip, and the physicality of marking and erasing invokes the process of learning the curves and textures of Puerto Rico.
The exhibit is co-curated by Andrea Lepage, the Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History, and Kevin McNamee-Tweed, director of the Staniar Gallery.
Staniar Gallery is located on the second floor of Wilson Hall, in Washington and Lee University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts. When the campus is open to the public, gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (540) 458-8861.
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