This whole month of February, 1 to 28, “Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War” exhibit will be seen in SOMArts Cultural Center presenting the works of art about community issues of 13 artists immigrated from El Salvador and now living in California and New York: Carlos Rogel - graduate student from University of California at Los Angeles, video installation, painting and digital media artist whose work focuses on new public artworks. Son of Salvadoran immigrant parents who moved to Los Angeles at the beginning of the civil war. His arts often represent the effects on transnational identities of the post civil war.    Victor Cartagena - visual arts instructor from Creativity Explored of San Francisco and been making his art from a painful memories of the violence in El Salvador and his migrating experience addressing sociopolitical issues expressed in his drawing, sculpture, painting, printmaking, audio and video installation.   Carolina Fuentes - used her skills as radio and television journalist to explore the history of her native El Salvador and traced in her documentary project the symbol of music and role of musicians in her native's civil war.    Juan Carlos Mendizabal - created a 45-minute piece with samples and electronic sounds combine with acoustic guitars and newscasts that describe how a whole town in El Salvador was destroyed by the Salvadorean army, killed all people even children, kept secret for so many years, and denied by the government until they uncovered mass graves as proof.   Josue Rojas - a native of San Francisco from a family originated from El Salvador, spent most of his time working alone, listening to himself and confronting his own demon to achieve a sense of clarity. A video artist, painter and journalist whose works combined aesthetics with ethics often illustrates the struggle of young Salvadoran affected by the civil war and the complexity of migrating and settling a new life in a strange land.   Beatriz Cortez - was born in El Salvador and has lived in the United States since 1989. Earned her doctorate degree in Latin America literature from Arizona State University. Also a graduate student of California State University in the Art Department, creating visual arts in memory and loss in the effects of a war and her experience in immigration.   Other exhibits include the works of the ff. artists: Tessie Barrera-Scharaga Plinio Hernández Leticia Hernández-Linares Roque Montez Rosario Moore Neil Rivas Carolina Rivera   Check for full schedule of the exhibit.