2023 Art Exhibitions
2022 Art Exhibitions
Matriarch: A Gallery Show
With this show we looked at how we define the term matriarch and how we see matriarchs in our own personal lives and in our community. We challenged the gender binary, exploring new ideas of what a matriarch is. We were interested in the conversations that were brought up in the pieces by their creators. The term matriarch can refer to anyone and the definition is open, up to interpretation. Matriarchs have been defined as warm, caring, sacred, resilient, and a fighter spanning generations and being present in our everyday lives. The term matriarch is traditionally viewed as a gendered term, conjuring up images of mothers. This show challenged the traditional definition of matriarch.
Protect My Sacred Heart: Jacob Gutierrez
Growing up and experiencing life can be quite difficult in many ways, but I knew that a trip to grandma’s would fix anything I was going through. I never felt more at home that when I was sitting at my grandma’s while she made tortillas and beans. I felt safe and protected when I would stare up at the walls seeing all of my family members honored with their own special place on grandma’s wall. I like to think that family and saints were right next to each other because every family member was sacred and held a special place in grandma’s heart.
I love printmaking and making art, but more importantly, I love my family. I believe there is nothing more sacred than family. I used to pray in church and ask God to protect me, but now I turn to my family for protection. The religious iconography allows me to portray my loved ones as they deserve to be seen. The iconography also allows me to explore different perspectives and challenge ones we’ve always known.
CTRL: Fuck That
The intention of this locally produced Art Show explores the idea of “Control” and how we are taking control back. CTRL: Fuck That! When the government has control over us as individuals we experience control as harmful, restricting, and oppositional. When we, as individuals, have control over ourselves, we experience control as beneficial, empowering and liberating.
As BIPOC we have had to struggle for control to simply exist, to keep our way of life, our culture, our language, our identities, our bodies…our freedom. We are here today because Resistance to this control is the legacy passed on to us from our Ancestors.
Artists will explore these ideas through visual art, live teatro, music, and performance art.
El Chante Casa de Cultura is a communal space dedicated to the arts (visual, literary and performance), culture, familia, and community.
Son de Allá, Son de Acá
The project aims to bridge art communities, create awareness of new voices, foster communication, increase opportunities, and expand our understanding socially, culturally, and historically between artists across state borders. "This gathering of artists aims to bring awareness to the brown and POC creatives living and working in New Mexico that are often underrepresented and marginalized," said Telles. "There's a void of brown and POC contemporary art, a chasm in New Mexico. This exhibit highlights New Mexico artists in solidarity with makers from across the Southwest in communities that have experienced similar issues. The voices of these creative thinkers need to be shared, amplified, witnessed, and valued, and I feel very fortunate to be in a position to welcome these artists to my hometown."
2021 Art Exhibits
Mooxie & BHET
Inscripciones: A celebration of life and survival, Inscripciones, a collaboration of art, music, dancing, and our artistic trade routes from Echo Park to Burque!
Mooxie: Inscripciones Art Opening, a celebration of survival and life featuring artwork by MOOXIE. Over the years, we have met many artists and we have been truly inspired by this comadre from her use of vibrant colors in her paintings, her artistic experimentation, sharing her story as a survivor of breast cancer, to her commitment to creating positive and healthy spaces for women in art, her direct involvement in the breakdancing community via the Zia Queens Crew and their work to create positive spaces for girls, women, and families in the hip hop community in Burque. Come out and celebrate la vida buena and sana!
BHET: Exchanging and sharing stories of displacement and gentrification while building community through art, familia, and cultura from Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Burque featuring artwork by BHET at the Inscripciones art opening tonight from 6pm to 9pm. BHET has become a master with the spray can, his line work is perfection. Over the years teaching and sharing his silk screening skills with youth in the L.A. area. BHET travels from L.A. to New Mexico sharing his love for art and familia, painting murals and sharing his silk screening skills by teaching the Home Girls Unidas and El Chante crew. Building on our traditional trade routes in the Southwest. Familia.
