Garfield Ridge Branch hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month art exhibit featuring the work of local artist Ernesto Atkinson.
Paintings from Atkinson’s collection will be on display from September 15 through October 15.
Artist Statement
My artwork is a representation of the imperfections of society. Its main objective is to find beauty and transcendence within the context of imperfection.
The nature of my work as an artist is about how, despite the atrocities that happen in the world, everything and anything can become a source of inspiration and creation. Ugliness has its beauty, poverty its wealth. The uneducated can educate, the unloved can love and the unhappy can claim happiness.
Through exploring what lies behind the systematic imperfections of society and what is obscured by political, religious and educational issues and by the realities of hunger, poverty, wealth, beauty and war, I want to offer the spectator a moment of awe. As a painter, with my abstract and conceptual images, brushstrokes, textures and colors, I give viewers a chance to observe, to listen and to take with them a glorious light of peace, love, comprehension and dignity and a vision of what is around us and who we are.
