September 30 - December 3, 2023
From AMSET:
“Angélica Delfina Vásquez Cruz, also known as the Ceramista del Preciosismo (b. 1958), is a potter from
Santa Maria Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico. Her parents, Delfina Cruz Díaz and Ernesto Vásquez Reyes, taught her
how to create toys, jars, pots and pans. As a young adult, Cruz began creating her own work based on Oaxacan
mythology, culture and folklore. Cruz has taught her children and grandchildren how to create ceramics,
continuing the familial genealogy of artists. Cruz does not paint her work, but instead developed a process using
“agobes,” her term for natural-colored substances, such as stone or volcanic ash, which she uses to add different
hues to her pieces.
Join us for the opening reception of Shawne Major: Force Majeure and other compulsions & Ceramista
del Preciosismo: Angélica Delfina Vásquez Cruz from the John Gaston Fairey Collection of Mexican Folk Art on
Friday, October 6, 2023, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Drinks and light
refreshments will be served, with a brief gallery talk at 7:15 p.m. with artist Shawne Major.”
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