: Art Exhibit Anniversary Celebartion
Contact: Michele McKenzie- phone: 510-981-6240. Laura Ruiz 510-849-2568 ext. 14 Cuzco-based visual artist, Claudio Talavera-Ballón, exhibits oils on canvas and inks from his “people and places” series Fragmentos de Perú at Berkeley Public Library’s Central Catalog Lobby, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley, from February 8th through March 7th, 2010. Talavera-Ballon's art depicts rural landscapes and people of Andean villages in Peru. Access to the exhibit is available during the library's open hours: Monday 12 – 8; Tuesday 10 – 8; Wednesday -Saturday, 10 -6; Sunday 1-5. Claudio Talavera-Ballón was born in Arequipa, Perú in 1973. A disciple of world-acclaimed watercolorist Luis Palao Berastain, Talavera-Ballón, captures with extraordinary talent the very essence of ordinary people's lives in small towns across the Peruvian Highlands. Talavera-Ballón began working as a professional artist more than 10 years ago and his work has been exhibited in several art galleries and museums across Peru, Chile and the United States, including La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA (January, 2010) and the Peruvian Embassy, Washington, DC (March, 2010). All are invited to meet Claudio Talavera-Ballón and discuss his work during a FREE artist's reception and talk on Saturday afternoon, February 20, at 2:00 pm in Berkeley Public Library's Central Catalog Lobby. Wheelchair accessible. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information, call 510-981-6100 or connect www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org. DFor more information about la Peña visit http://www.lapena.org Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley, CA 94704. La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, Ca. 94705.
Press Release
December 21, 2009
For Immediate Release
For an art exhibit February 8 – March 7, 2010
ART EXHIBIT & ARTIST’S TALK
Talavera-Ballón's Efraín, su perro y el bastón
“Fragmentos de Perú”
Contemporary Art of Claudio Talavera-Ballon
The Berkeley Public Library is coordinating an exhibition of Latin American art in celebration of La Peña’s 35th anniversary in 2010.
