Tonight Y Gallery in Queens will be holding a reception for Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (born 1963), with her first solo exhibition in New York entitled "OPERATIVO." Her artwork with SEMEFO (which is short for "Servicio Medico Forense," forensic medical service for those of us who never paid attention in Spanish class), a group she help to found in 1990 with three other Mexican artists (which initially began as a Death Metal Band and somehow morphed into an artists collective) has attempted to somehow discuss the drug related violence that has plagued their country.

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