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PROTO GOMEZ proudly presents Los Dioses de los Pochos, a selection of bold new work by Brooklyn-based painter Anna Ortiz that takes as its central subject imagined deities and patron saints of the Mexican diaspora.
Long focused on the landscape as a source of inspiration for her paintings, in Los Dioses de los Pochos artist Anna Ortiz shifts to a more personal terrain, that of the socio-political and specifically cultural ground, an area particular to this Latinx artist with familial Mexican roots. (Anna Ortiz is a first-generation Mexican-American on her father’s side, whose grandfather was a …