2002-3 Season Poster

Artist Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1919. He graduated from Art school with a degree in painting and sculpture and had his first exhibit when he was 23. By the time he was 33, he had won numerous national prizes. His work was exhibited in museums in Paris, Buenos Aires, many cities in the United States, and in Moscow, the Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Warsaw.

His humanistic, expressionistic work reflects the pain and the misery of man. It denounces the violence that has marked the 20th Century. Guayasamín was a friend of important intellectuals and statesmen of the progressive world. His portraits of some of them, including Fidel Castro, Francois and Danielle Mitterrand, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Rigoberta Menchú, and others, are most powerful. He died at the age of 79 in 1999, leaving his country with many magnificent works of art, including the 1967 painting "The Violinist", which adorns our poster.

Learn more about this remarkable artist at his Web site.

Chris Dec designed this poster. She specializes in portraits from photos. She produces water color and pastel renderings using electronic media, which are hand-finished in chalk pastels. A graphic artist as well, Chris conducts her business from her home studio in Sebastopol in Northern California. She can be reached at chrisdec@sonic.net.