{"id":2742,"date":"2024-09-23T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/tag\/?page_id=2742"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:41:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:41:37","slug":"chicanxfuturismintexas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/tag\/chicanxfuturismintexas\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection & Renewal: Chican(x)Futurism in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Angel Cabrales,\u00a0Ce Ittaliztli tlen Axihuical (A Vision in the Parallel)<\/em>, 2019, video installation (image still)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Building on the history of Chicano\/a artworks of past decades, <\/span>Reflection and Renewal: Chican(x)Futurism<\/em> in Texas<\/span> <\/span>presents four artists who blend Indigenous cultural references<\/span> with sci-fi and tech-based narratives<\/span> to relocate Mexican-American identities.<\/span><\/span><\/span> They investigate topics of mass consumption, technological impacts, land rights and usage, dual identities, and belonging. This generation of artists has brought new perspectives to the project of Chicano\/a cultural reclamation<\/span> (<\/span>el movimiento<\/span><\/em>). The Texas-based artists featured in this exhibition employ futurism to explore specific issues<\/span> related to the Mexico-U.S. border, systematic marginalization, and histories of displacement, colonization, and resistance<\/span> through a process of <\/span>reflection and renewal<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

This exhibition is open September 24 – December 12 in Gallery 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Artists<\/h3>\n

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Angel Cabrales\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span>is a multimedia artist and arts educator based in El Paso, Texas. His work examines aspects of Latinx identity, immigration, inequality and histories, a part of American culture that is misconstrued because of political and media rhetoric. Cabrales views everything as a potential artistic resource providing him with a flexibility to utilize a variety of mediums and styles.\u00a0He merges media with intangible elements, such as his upbringing within the storied scientific history of New Mexico and political realities of the Texas borderlands. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The creation and engineering in his work creates an interactive experience that merges art with new technologies and the socio-political concerns of today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cabrales holds a MFA at the University of North Texas and a BFA at Arizona State University. Cabrales is part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Estrellas y Cuentas initiative on Latinx Futurism. He is also a member of the International Sculpture Center, the Texas Sculpture Group, and the JUNTOS art collective.\u00a0<\/span>Cabrales teaches Sculpture at UTEP, including courses that bring together art concepts and STEAM elements. He is head of the Engineering + Art + Science = Social Impact (EASSI) team, which focuses on community-engagement projects in the Borderlands of El Paso.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yareth Fern\u00e1ndez<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> is a mixed-media artist and arts educator based in Austin, Texas. Their work experiments with artificial environments and futurist ways of interacting with nature through site specific installation work that respond to various landscapes, including the Mexico-U.S. border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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They investigate different solutions for possible environmental extinctions, often creating spaces that reflect non-linear time, invented organisms, systems of growing, and geometrical frameworks. Their vibrant and colorful installations provoke ways to rethink how we coexist with the natural world through art, science, and imagination.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, M\u00e9xico, they hold a MFA at Michigan State University and a BA in Art at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. Their work is expressed through a variety of mediums such as drawing, mixed media sculptures, and installation work. Fern\u00e1ndez<\/span>\u00a0has created temporary and permanent public art for the City of Austin.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nansi Guevara<\/strong><\/span> is a rasquache artist, designer, author, and educator based in Brownsville, Texas. Originally from Laredo, Texas, she has spent most of her life living near the Rio Grande River. Her artistic practice is driven by activism and social change through exposing untold histories of violence, criminalization, migration, and forced labor in South Texas. Through narrative change and cultural organizing, Guevara creates spaces of resistance and affirmation, encouraging creative economies centered on community cultural wealth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Guevara holds a Master\u2019s in Education from Harvard University and a BFA in Design from The University of Texas at Austin. She runs her own freelance illustration and education practice, Coraz\u00f3n Contento, based out of Brownsville, Texas. Guevara has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from Fulbright, the NEA, Artplace America, a Blade of Grass, NALAC, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the AWAW Environmental Art Grant. Her work has been community centered and driven by social change for the past 15 years in Austin, Mexico City, Boston, Massachusetts, and now Laredo and Brownsville, Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Luis Valderas<\/strong><\/span> is a <\/span>multi-disciplinary <\/span>artist and educator based in San Antonio, Texas. The imagery in his artwork is based on Mesoamerican mythology combined with science fiction, cosmosology, and ancestral narratives. Valderas transforms ancient icons by revealing their connection between past, present, and future. His own visual language exists in the \u201cthird space of reality,\u201d the <\/span>frontera<\/span><\/i> where anything is possible. Through mixed-media work, Valderas presents an art experience that prompts spectators to imagine and participate in an intermingled future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Valderas holds a BFA in Art Education from the UT\u2013Pan American and is co-founder of <\/span>Project: MASA I, II,III, IV & V<\/span><\/i>. He is also co-founder of The A3 Press and Bishop & Valderas, LLC. and is a mentor and board member for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). He has exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (MOA), Medellin Museum of Art, Colombia, the Queens Museum, NYC, and the UCR-Arts Block, Riverside, CA. His work has been featured in numerous scholarly articles and publications dedicated to the research of contemporary Chican@ art. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Exhibition Highlights<\/h1>\n

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