TEXOAX
Cal Contrario and Cindy Pedraza of Olmo Market are proud to present: TEXOAX, an international exchange, featuring three artists from Oaxaca exhibiting for the first time in Dallas, Texas; and three Texas-based artists exhibiting for the first time in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Please join us on April 11, 2pm at Olmo Market to celebrate the inauguration of this 2-part exhibition.
Featuring work by Issvan Duarte, from San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, Frida Fernández and Kerenn Josabed from Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, who use abstraction to explore inner perception, the natural environment, and how digital landscapes impact the body.
Artworks will be on view to the public from April 11 – April 30th.
2111 S Edgefield
Dallas, Texas
75224
Issvan Duarte
A graduate in Fine and Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Oaxaca de Juárez, he is a Zapotec philosopher, trained and educated by the Faculty of Sciences and Education at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University in Oaxaca City. For the past 9 years, he has served as the director and founder of the Código Tonal Studio-Gallery, located in the historic center of Oaxaca City. In addition to being a visual artist, he is also the museum director and member of the committee that makes up the San Pedro Ixtlahuaca Thematic Interpretation Center. Issvan Duarte is proudly Binnigulazaa y Ixtlahuaqueño.
Frida Fernández
I’m an emerging visual artist from Oaxaca, México. I obtained a Fine Arts bachelor’s degree in 2020. In my practice I use a mixture of mediums such as collage, drawing, installation, and tattoo. My work explores the borders between collective and intimate realities, immersed in the limit’s of chaos and peacefulness, the ordinary and the absurd, the conscious and the oniric states of mind. Within my creative process, I like to work with the environment that surrounds me from a deep connection using natural or organic materials, found on site. This process involves a continuous search for the balance between technical control and the spontaneous, which could reflect the philosophy of my work in which as an artist I play the role of a mediator between what nature offers and what the artistic environment demands.
Kerenn Josabed
I’m a self taught emerging artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. My practice is about my experiences on the Internet from a cyborg anthropological point of view, especially on social media. Dwelling on the idea of being able to measure and communicate emotion through a machine/technology I experiment with digital media, painting, sound, sculpture, performance and installation