Sol Collectives community art exhibitions aim to make art accessible by providing a space for established and emerging artists to display work that is relevant to their community in two rotating galleries. We have featured innovators in political, cultural and urban art such as Shepard Fairey, El Mac, Retna, Xico Gonzalez, TYS, and Dignidad Rebelde over the past year.
In 2011 the Sol Gallery hosts national touring exhibits Elegy by Ben Rojas,
Invisible Instructions, and Foto Graffik Memories by Scott La Rockwell as well as shows by local up and comers Trent Liddicoat, The KIDS Crew, Microphone Mondays. Exhibits generally open on the third Saturday of the month and close on the second Saturday of the following month.
ELEGY by Ben Rojas
Art is the signature of civilizations.
In the case of Ben Rojas this signature is somewhere between native tribal ink and a Brooklyn graffiti handstyle.
Rojas latest creation, ELEGY, is a newly developed series of ink illustrations depicting the psychological scars of a post 1492 contemporary Brown
America in the modern day. Blending a native warrior culture and traditional
Latino tattoo art, Rojas reinterprets traditional gang tattoos into markings
that question or mourn oppression in the Americas after European conquest.
This series exposes that clash of cultures for its
violence, oppression, beauty, destruction, and creation that continues
to this modern day. -Ben Rojas
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.
