August 23 - November 12, 2021
From Texas State Galleries:
“Artist Maria Guzmán Capron has always been attracted to fabric. “It is so close to us, to our bodies. Everything we wear, that touches our skin, is made of fabric. In our domestic space, our homes are covered in textiles, from rugs to bedding to sofas.” Textiles are interlaced with stories of their time and place, and with structures of power, culture, class and gender. Guzmán Capron turns over and cuts through these layers, building on the hierarchies and histories woven into the fibers of her selected fabrics. In Olas Malcriadas (loosely translated as “naughty waves”), the artist uses these unspoken material languages to construct a collection of unique personas, each one an irreverent bearer of emotions. She writes: “I think about color and pattern and their association with culture as I work to be part of and create my own brown latinx identity, and see meaning in the ways in which there is an immigrant aesthetic that attempts to navigate belonging.” Her creations are not illustrations, but rather constitutive bodies embedded with significance that, through their individual and collective assembly, speak of new and fluid identities.”
Gallery I & II (Texas State University)
601 University Drive
San Marcos, 78666 TX
(512) 245-2664
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