Carlos Castro Arias will be exhibiting his newest project, "The Splinter in the Eye," an installation composed of paintings and objects in which the artist reflects about memory, trauma, and elements of the individual and collective identity.
Carlos Castro Arias is a Colombian artist, professor, and musician. He received a BA from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogota in 2002 and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2008 to the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received an MFA in painting in 2010. Castro has been an associate professor at San Diego State University since 2019. In 2022, the Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia exhibited a retrospective of his work entitled La Vida de las Cosas Muertas (The Life of Dead Things).
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St.
La Jolla, CA
Dates and times:
From October 19, 2024 to January 11, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.ljathenaeum.org
