Material Concerns
Pilar Agüero-Esparza & Hector Dionicio Mendoza
Exhibition Dates: Dec 2 - Jan 31, 2025
Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building
Art and Art History Gallery
Gallery Hours: M-F, 9am-4pm
Holiday Closure Dates: Dec 16, 2024 to Jan 3, 2025
Featuring Artists: Pilar Agüero-Esparza & Hector Dionicio Mendoza
Artist Talk and Reception: Jan 30, 2025, 5:30-7:30 pm, Dowd Lobby
Pictured left: Pilar Agüero-Esparza, “Lace: Dulce” (detail), Acrylic, stretched and woven leather, color pencil, nails, on wood panel, 30"x45"x1.75", 2024. Pictured right: Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Descanso / Roadside Memorial, mixed media 48"x36"x34", 2024.
Migration, social hierarchies, experiences of otherness and invisibility – all inform the practices of Pilar Agüero-Esparza and Hector Dionicio Mendoza. In their mixed media works, the human body serves as a focal point for material exploration in the representation of the body in physical form and as well as conceptually. Both artists work with specific materials chosen for their materiality and signifying potential. Informed by craft and the hand-made object, these artists combine their material concerns with their social concerns to spotlight specific cultural experiences and give voice to marginalized communities.
Agüero-Esparza and Mendoza’s 2010 project “El Shop” was a significant collaboration through which each artist augmented their individual artistic paths. This exhibition, fifteen years forward, brings the artists together to survey their current commonalities particularly within the content of their work and view their distinctly individual forms of expression garnered through specific working processes and materials.
This event is free and open to the public.
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