Paintings of artist Arturo Miramontes to be featured at Cicero Town Hall

CICERO – The Paintings of artist Arturo Miramontes will be featured by the town of Cicero at a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9, in the Cicero Town Hall Lobby, 4949 West Cermak Road.

Miramontes is nationally known for the use of historical symbols in his work, as well as the blending of strong, vibrant colors to depict the struggles of Mexican-Americans, undocumented immigrants and the Chicano movement in the US.

Miramontes was born in Momax, Zacatecas, Mexico, and moved to the U.S. in 1972. He became a U.S. citizen in 1985 and now lives in Hammond, Ind.

A self taught-artist, he studied briefly under the world-renowned illustrator Mohamed Drissi.

Miramontes developed his own style of studio painting by using both realistic and symbolic images in his oil paintings. He work celebrates, not only his ethic roots, but his emotional response to life in contemporary United States society and politics.

Miramontes has previously shown at Indiana University, The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and and the Rudy Lozano Public Library in Chicago.