January 6 - February 18, 2023
From Presa House:
“Presa House is excited to kick off its 2023 exhibition schedule with the return of Texas-based artist Jesus Treviño. Born in San Antonio, TX, and raised in Brownsville, TX, Treviño recently completed his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Following graduation, Treviño attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 2022 and recently completed the Rockland Residency in rural Bremerton, Washington. Treviño’s first solo exhibition, Behind Our Walls, was hosted at Presa House Gallery in August 2019. The opening reception for Phantom in the Headlights will be held on First Friday, January 6, from 7 to 11 pm, and the artist will be in attendance. The exhibition will remain on view by appointment through February 18, 2023.
Phantom in the Headlights is an exhibition by Texas-based artist Jesus Treviño that contemplates transgenerational histories and collective and long-term trauma concerning Treviño’s personal experiences. The exhibition’s title may refer to moving forward through life or looking ahead to the future. At the same time, histories of what came before are present but may suggest an inability to think clearly or react due to fear. Paintings and objects in the show function as conduits to the past, with archival family imagery melting into contemporary everyday scenes of Treviño’s friends and family. The work is composed of and actively affected by those histories using used motor oil collected from the artist’s family’s dealership near the international bridge in Brownsville, Texas. The used motor oil could be interpreted as blood-like, with a history of movement across borders and labor from his family, allowing forward progression.
Artist Bio
Jesus Treviño (b. 1995) received a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2018 and an MFA in Painting/Drawing at UT-Austin in 2022. His work is rooted in his experience being raised on the U.S./Mexico border and deals with the erasure of history, displacement, and its residual personal, emotional, and social effects. Treviño has had two solo exhibitions in Texas at Martha’s Contemporary (2022) and Presa House Gallery (2019), as well as a two-person exhibition at Contra Common (2021). He has also organized a group exhibition at the Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX (2020) and has been included in group exhibitions at Exhibit/208 in Albuquerque, NM (2022); Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM (2022); the Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2022); The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX (2021); Field Projects Gallery, New York (2021); Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, NM (2021) and the Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX (2021). Most recently, he attended the Desert Door Residency (2022), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2022), and the Rockland Residency (2022).”
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