The Olga and Carlos Saladrigas Gallery presented its fall exhibit 2024, I AM NOT A POET curated by Angela Valella.
 

The exhibition featured over a hundred and fifty artworks including paintings, sketchbooks, video and an installation of the artist’s personal belongings that were a source of inspiration throughout his career. Essays by renowned artists and cultural practitioners Angela Valella and William Cordova will be incorporated in the full color catalog, both having curated exhibitions highlighting Mosquera’s artwork.
 

Using painting, collage, sketchbook drawings, installation and film, artist Arturo E. Mosquera channels personal memories and social history into narratives that oscillate between the real and dream-like fictions. I AM NOT A POET presents a wide array of the artist’s work along with a catalog that gives voice to his deeply personal work. His works explore reactions to certain images and situations. Viewing his works as a collage of ideas and impressions, visitors can combine all the narratives that suspend fact and fiction evoking fragments of the artist’s travels and experiences. Mosquera creates a fantastical tableaux that explores personal, collectives and fictional memory.
 

Mosquera is an alumnus of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School Class of 2000. He was a founder of BEAMS, the Belen Arts, Entertainment and Media Professional Section of the Belen Alumni Association, and served as a BEAMS board member in 2022.