My hands are monsters who believe in magic

Name: My hands are monsters who believe in magic
Start: 2025-05-30T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-30T17:30:00-07:00
Location: Armory Center for the Arts

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30 MAY Fri 2025

12:00 PM 5:30 PM

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This exhibition highlights two popular genres of 19th-century Mexican painting commemorating family members who no longer reside in the household— offering them a lasting presence in the home. The first intimately portrays deceased individuals in likenesses imbued with grief and tender remembrance. The second genre is the uniquely Mexican monja Coronado or “crowned nun” portrait. Images of flowers adorned Brides of Christ were commissioned by the families of women who took Catholic ecclesiastical vows and permanently embarked on cloistered lives.

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Armory Center for the Arts

145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, 91103, CA, United States