DES MOINES, IA.- On September 23, the Des Moines Art Center opened Dario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens, an exhibition that will run through January 15, 2012 in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery. A new print exhibition, Black White Gray Blue also opened on September 23, and be on view through January 29, 2012. Survival Does Not Lie in The Heavens is devoted to Dario Robleto’s recent exploration of longevity and extinction. The San Antonio-native is well known for using ephemeral and archaic materials, including vinyl records, dinosaur fossils, impact glass formed by meteorites, human tears, and heartbeats to create poetic statements that celebrate our faith in the materials and objects that shape our lives. Influenced by both conceptual art and popular forms of music sampling, Robleto mixes these materials in order to understand the present through the past in an ongoing pursuit of a