5/20/2023 0 Comments Between two worlds 20151977, Matamoros, Mexico) received his BA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Brownsville in 2003 and his MA from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain in 2010. Aguilar’s work was included in the 2017 Texas Biennial in Austin. His work has been included in group exhibitions at K-Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi (2019) 500X Gallery, Dallas (2017) Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany (2017) grayDUCK Gallery, Austin (2017) La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (2017) Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas (2016) The Painting Center, New York (2015) Studio Apothiki, Paphos, Cyprus (2015) MACLA Museum, San Jose (2012) Alexandria Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2012) Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas (2010) and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art (2009). 1972, Brownsville, Texas) has had solo exhibitions at 81 Leonard Gallery, New York (2020) the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (2020, 2001) the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (2018) and Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas (2012). Through works in painting and drawing (Alejandro Macias, Cande Aguilar, Jesus Treviño, Josie Del Castillo, Marcelina Gonzalez, Noel Palmenez), sculpture and installation (Jessie Burciaga, Mauricio Saenz, Samantha Isabel Garcia), ceramics (Ceci Guzman, Julian Rodriguez), and printmaking (Ruby Garza), these artists engage themes of cultural conflict, identity, folklore, and regional life along the border.īetween Two Worlds is organized by Jesus Treviño, MFA candidate in Studio Art, with Center Space Project.Ĭande Aguilar (b. This exhibition points to the space between two worlds, highlighting the bilingual aesthetics employed by twelve artists whose identities and artistic practices have been shaped by life in the border region spanning South Texas and Northern Mexico. This blending of languages, and the artwork that stems from it, is the product of a bicultural experience that is at once fractured and unified, neither here nor there. The language of the border includes code-switching between Spanish and English, as well as the use of invented words formed by combining the two. Paredes (1915-1999), a foundational figure in Mexican American studies and Chicano literature, wrote poetry about his upbringing between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico that emphasized the distinctive way language has informed the cultural overlaps in this marginalized region. Between Two Worlds takes its title from a book of selected poems written by Américo Paredes in the 1930s and 1940s.
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