• "Chupete Marinera"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp), Mixed-media
    34" (h) x 24" (w) x12" (d)
    2019

  • "Ramos de Flores Regalado"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp), Mixed-media
    52" (h) x 18" (w) x 18" (d)
    2019

  • "Niño Azul"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp), Mixed-media
    56"(h) x 44" (w) x 44" (d)
    2019

  • "Cielo Grande, Cielo Azul"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp)
    14"(h) x 20"(w) x 8"(d)
    2019

  • "La Luz del Sol"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp)
    12" (h) x 18"(w) x 7"(d)
    2019

  • "Recogiendo Flores"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp)
    117" (h) x 16"(w) x 5"(d)
    2019

  • "Meñique"

    Ceramic, mid-range(temp), Mixed-media
    36"(h) x 82"(w) 30"(d)
    2019

BFA Thesis Exhibition

Gallery of Visual Arts ~ University of Montana Missoula, MT
May 2019

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This work represents a personal narrative as a second-generation Chicano, and is an homage to the elaborate and diverse Latin American Craft-traditions before and after colonization.

My studio practice is explained as both a question and a statement; a curiosity of my ethnic identity and a pride in my Mexican-American heritage. Decorative patterning and bright colors are sourced from Mestizo prints of colonial Latin-America to represent the convergence of ethnic and cultural ideas that make up the Americas. This history is paired with personal symbolism that subverts traditional expectations of Latinx communities.

I aim to explore the fragile boundaries of my blurred personal identity within the diverse multi-ethnic background of the Americas.