Gerald Lovato’s Honors Thesis exhibition

If you weren’t able to attend the Burque Unite event last weekend, you still have another chance to check out Gerald Lovato’s Honors Thesis exhibition during Artwalk this Friday, November 4th. Lovato’s work aims to break the stigma around behavioral and mental health and posits as a reminder that change, recovery, and violence prevention are possible.

Lovato is an Albuquerque native and interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the themes of drug addiction, violence, suicide and mental health. Before studying visual arts, Lovato used martial arts to cope with trauma, which led to a successful 10-year career as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Lovato now uses visual arts for coping/healing and works in the mediums of painting, photography, sculpture, electronic art, film and installation.