Press Release from Elizabeth Humphries
Panama City, FL – The Visual & Performing Arts Division of Gulf Coast State College presents Textures of Remembrance by Daniel Esquivia Zapata. Daniel’s work explores ideas about historical memory, official historical narratives, and what he terms the politics of remembering. He does this through life-size figurative drawings that combine historical texts, the human body, plants, and animals to generate strong spaces that work as poetic imagery, probing the dynamics of narratives in history and historical memory.
Daniel Esquivia Zapata is an Afro-Colombian artist and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Auburn University, specializing in drawing. He holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BA in Studio Art from Benedict College. Before teaching at Auburn, Daniel taught at various institutions, including Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. His work has been featured in venues such as the Whatcom Museum and the Richard Demato Gallery. He has also participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Santa Fe Art Institute and a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Recently, he was a summer artist at 701 CCA in Columbia, SC, and was selected as a 2025 visiting artist to the Gibbes Museum of Art.
- The exhibit will be on display in the Amelia Center Gallery (AC 112) from Friday, February 28 to Friday, April 11, with an opening reception on February 28, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Daniel will give a gallery talk during the reception.)
- Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., and Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Admission is free.
For more information, please contact Pavel Amromin at pamromin@gulfcoast.edu, 850-872-3886.
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