With Father’s Day around the corner, this may seem a month too late, but the art exhibit at La Llorona Gallery in Chicago entitled “A Toda Madre” sounds worth checking out:

La Llorona Art Gallery has the pleasure of featuring the work of two of Chicago’s most recognized female Mexican artists, Esperanza Gama and Diana Solis […] The collection includes twenty-two original drawings on paper that apply symbolic imagery to convey personal mythologies and social narratives. […Gama’s] work both visually and conceptually connects the life and experience of migrant women to the monarch butterfly. Similar to the monarch, this community of women endures transitions with strength and courage while maintaining the colorful and vibrant traditions of their culture. […] In Solis’s most recent series she creates anthropomorphic characters that energetically interact with the whimsical environment in which they inhabit. “The figures in my work become their own mythologies, holding their own against all odds.”

It starts June 13. Deets after the jump.

La Llorona Gallery presents: A Toda Madre!
June 13 - June 27, 2008

1474 W. Webster, Chicago
Opening Reception Friday, June 13, 2008, 6pm

For more information, please visit www.lalloronagallery.com or call 773-281-8461