Craig Matis  AUTISM: A MEXICAN ADVENTURE OPENING SAT. JANUARY 4, 1-3PM RUNS THROUGH FEB. 9, 2014 ARTIST STATEMENT I am an artist and parent of a young man with mental disabilities.  I have created a series of panels, all of which tell the story of a father who takes his autistic son on a journey through Mexico, as a way to cope with the recent death of his wife in America. Using a mixed media technique of folded paper and 3-D pencil drawings, I have incorporated my own personal experiences with raising a special needs child into a surrealistic narrative that leads the father and son on a mystical dream…