RENO, NEV.- The Nevada Museum of Art is showing works by artists from both sides of the Mexican-American border. Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Works from the Bank of America Collection celebrates and reveals a variety of cultural aspects that emerged in the years after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to the present day. The artworks on view in this exhibition are drawn from the Bank of America Collection, one of the most important art collections in the world. Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Works from the Bank of America Collection remains on view through July 16, 2017 at the Nevada Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts, E. L. Wiegand Gallery located at 160 West Liberty Street in downtown Reno.

Consisting of over 100 works, Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Works from the Bank of America Collection closely examines paintings, prints and photographs created over the past eighty years by artists who have been attracted to and inspired by Mexico’s ancient civilizations and modern artistic theories alike. Highlights include works by some of the best-known Mexican artists—including Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Gunther Gerzso—as well as Mexican-American artists such as Judithe Hernández, Roberto Juarez and Robert Graham.

Many artists of Mexican descent working in the United States continue to implement social ideas and educational theories first taken up by modern Mexican artists at the end of the Mexican Revolution. These artists understand and react to the sociopolitical climate in the United States and the global art and theories of the second half of the twentieth century, often incorporating contemporary regional politics along with their broad understanding of their diverse heritages.

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