Installation image. Figures from the sanctuary series presented in my hometown and border city of El Paso Texas at the Rubin Arts Center. Uncle Sam and Tia Catrina are equal but different figures guarding the entrance to the exhibition and acting as representatives of the US/Mexico border.
An Altar
An Altar is made up of 4 tiers with the foundation being the elements (wind, water, fire, earth), the second level is primitive instinct (wolf and lion), third level is faith and death, and the crown is people and community. Permanent Collection of University of Texas El Paso.
Mexican American Gothic
Immigrant depiction based on Grant Wood’s American Gothic with female figure as a hotel maid and male figure as a field worker. Tiled Background as landscape. Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
La Flor El Nicho y Sus Memorias
Gathering Altar installed at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Over 1000 tiles surround the Aztec god of Death. Installed during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. People could make and leave clay offerings. Even though we were by ourselves we are not alone. The offerings would be slacked down and returned to the earth on […]
Seven Indulgences
Large funerary urn with a self-portrait and the seven deadly sins. Permanent collection of the NationalMuseum in Stockholm Sweden as part of an American Crafts collection.
Suited Lion
Let The Music Take You
Memoria Ancestral
The body is decorated with images of Venado Azul (spiritual core) Quetzalcoatl (life force), Jaguar and Xolo (strength and compassion) and Eagle and Rooster (celestial and earthly), animals important to the mythologies of the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec cultures. The figure stands engaging the outside world with its mouth agape, holding a vessel made in […]
Love You Carnal
Free standing figure with multiple faces and heads that represent the guarding our different
Transporting Traditions
Outdoor sculpture greeting visitors near the entrance of The Clay Studio of Philadelphia. The figure is carrying three vessels representative of the communities where the new clay studio building is located.
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