Artful Insights: Photography in Mexico

Avril Angevine’s Art Lecture Series

You know the folk art, the murals, the angular architecture. But Mexico has produced a stable of outstanding practitioners in that most modern of arts: photography.

Like other genres of Mexican art, Mexican photography exhibits a tension between the modern and the Mesoamerican. Street savvy, elegant, surreal, or shocking—or, like Our Lady of the Iguanas, all of the above—Mexican photography shows us Mexico off the beaten track.

Avril Angevine is an arts lecturer with a particular interest in modern, contemporary, and California art. She speaks on many subjects at various locations in the Bay Area, including the OLLI programs at Cal State East Bay, Dominican College, San Francisco State, and the Fromm Institute. Avril has a BA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and taught English and Humanities at local colleges. She is also a museum guide at SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum, and the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

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