He new exhibition by Ruby Barrientos at Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery, Raíces (Roots), takes broad swings between intimate and historical zones, as well as political and ancestral ones. Barrientos is a first generation Salvadoran American, born in Reno after their parents emigrated here in the 1970s to escape the Salvadoran civil war. The work in this show reaches back across two ruptures-first, the rupture of emigration, and second, the rupture produced by the Spanish conquest of the Maya. Woven throughout the work are faces inspired by Maya sculpture and visual art, personages that Barrientos calls “Deities,” lured into existence in their sketchbooks and then expanded in scale in a variety of media.