"Petrirena has developed a personal iconography of memory and fragmentation that permeates much of his work, but is particularly important to his approach to installation art. In his installation work, we see his collage and assemblage dance with one another in a poetic choreography in an evocative environments that address the persistence of memory, the tension between the artificial and the natural, the ongoing collision of cultures, and the passing of time...Petrirena's collage works are hybrid images that are a collision of cultures and times. Rather than creating an abstract Mertz style collage, Petrirena overlays two or three images that are still somewhat complete and readable in themselves even as fragments."

David Houston, chief curator, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art

In conjunction with the city-wide art exhibition called "¡Si Cuba!," and specifically the Mario Petrirena show at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art

www.mariopetrirena.com

Gallery hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11am-4pm.

Gallery admission: $5/general, $3/students & seniors, FREE To CAC members.

For information, call (504) 528-3805