Changing Social Discourses

Changing Social Discourses, curated by Libby Rowe and Scott Sherer, presents the work of women artists who are compelled by their commitments to investigating and transforming social and cultural legacies and contexts. Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s (San Antonio) multi-media sculptures and installations reference domestic objects, the human body, and common cultural expressions in the full range of the beautiful to the crude.  Often exploring the legacies of her Chinese and Russian/Irish heritage, her work considers the lived experiences of diverse intersections of discourses of race and gender. Daniela Cavazos Madrigal’s (San Antonio) work reflects the vulnerability, uncertainty, and danger that characterize both individual and shared cultural experiences in the US/Mexico borderlands. Her work utilizes cast-off materials, embroidery, sewing and weaving to honor women’s work and women’s lives and to blur the lines between high and low art. In performance, new media, and installation, Anh-Thuy Nguyen (Tucson, Arizona) references her personal history as a Vietnamese immigrant to highlight the tensions between national origin and assimilation. Iconic imagery and singular performative acts draw attention to cultural foundations of individual subjectivity, whether real or perceived, steady or dynamic.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Daniela Cavazos Madrigal, Anh-Thuy Nguyen

Curated by Libby Rowe and Scott Sherer