February 10 - March 7, 2025
From South Texas College:
“Andrei Rentería (b.1986) is a multidisciplinary artist wandering about the U.S.- Mexico frontera. His work focuses on recurrences of human right abuses such as discrimination, persecution, unlawful imprisonment, femicides, amongst others along the region. “I envision myself as an artist and correspondent – a legman who carries back stories and situations confronted along the U.S.- Mexico border. My approach to material is experimental and incorporates drawing, painting, lithography, sculpture, collage, assemblage and installation. I use these as a powerful forum from which to investigate, address, and embody weighty subject–such as femicides, forced disappearances, persecution, unlawful imprisonment, torture, and other human rights abuses–beyond international borders.” Rentería’s work has been exhibited at the Latin American Institute of Austria, Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Houston’s Holocaust Museum, Museum of the Big Bend, and The Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio, Texas. “My methods of investigation continually change and for the past couple of years I’ve been trying to understand how “participant observation” / ethnography can be used to depict the set of contingencies played upon specific groups. Overall, I aim to induce a social collaborative experience with the viewer by referring to the relationship of the body to the object and the sense of exploitation or power. Ambitiously, I am trying to destabilize the border between artist, artwork, and audience—analogous to the socio-political border.” He is the 2024 Democratizing Racial Justice Project’s Artist in Residence at the University of Texas at San Antonio; the 2019 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow in Painting; and the recipient of The Contemporary at Blue Star’s 2018-2019 Berlin Residency, hosted by Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin”
Reception: February 13, 2025 | 1–4 pm
South Texas College Library Art Gallery - Pecan Campus
3201 W. Pecan Blvd.
McAllen, 78501 TX
(956) 872-3598
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