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Pure Diversity
Art and Human Nature by Mirta Toledo
Influenced by geographical or historical circumstances, art is a way to know the world and its people, to exhibit personal life, to create personal symbolism, to show identity or search for one. Even more, art can induce such a reaction in the viewer that could potentially make a social change when art is confrontational wit the society in power.
Mirta Toledo
de Leche (published in Madrid, Spain). Her artwork was used for several book covers.
Beginning in 1993, Toledo gave a series of conferences “celebrating the diversity of beliefs, cultures, languages, traditions, races and lifestyles” that she named Pure Diversity: A Quest for Identity. She lectured at Barnard College in New York, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, University of Maryland at College Park, and Texas Woman’s University of Denton, among others.
She also worked as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 1997, Toledo received the Estrella Award for Outstanding Woman in the Arts, by the Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas.
In April 2000, she moved to Austin, Texas, where she felt at home for the first time in the United States. While living in that city, Toledo was the Curator of La Peña Latino Arts Organization (2000-02) and also an Art Instructor for the Non Profit Organization LUPE Arte, giving art classes in the Austin Independent School District for underserved populations (2003-05). In addition to several group exhibitions in Austin, Toledo’s Artwork was on permanent exhibition at Mi Casa Gallery, located in the historic and revitalized South Congress Avenue District of Austin (2003-2007).
In early 2007, Toledo moved back to Buenos Aires. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Painting at the National University of Fine Arts. In May 2008 she had a Solo Show at Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: …with the letter M.
At the end of 2007 Toledo discovered Mail Art and become very passionate about a new (for her) way to create and participate in calls from distant countries.
ARTIST STATEMENT: “Art is a magical tool that I use in a quest for identity. Although the mass media imposes cultural ideals, humans are diverse and creative. Through my drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures I show the beauty that exists in human differences, developing a theme of work that I call Pure Diversity. DIVERSITY is the treasure of humanity: this is the message that I communicate with my body of work.”
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she grew up and completed her education in Fine Arts. She has exhibited her work in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Mexico and the USA.
Her first trip to the United States of America was in 1980. During that time she worked on the series of paintings On Angels, Women and Machines, exhibited in a Solo Show at the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul, in 1981.
Back in Buenos Aires in April 1982, she did a residency with the Sculptor Antonio Pujia. Toledo also participated in numerous competitions receiving special recognition and awards for her drawings and sculptures.
In 1988 she moved to Honolulu, in the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Over there she worked in her pottery and sculptures at the Hawaii Potter’s Guild and had a Solo Show at Backus Gallery: From The Earth.
Toledo moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1990, where she lived for ten years. Her activities during that decade were eclectic: she has served as a juror for art competitions, authored the novel La Semilla Elemental (published in Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a collection of short stories, Dulce
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