Alejandro Macias, El Guerito, Oil and Graphite on Panel, 24" x 18", 2020
The Mexic-Arte Museum will host an Online Opening Reception for our current exhibition, ELA 25: Intersección: Choque & Alivio, Intersection: Shock & Relief. Starting on Friday, September 25th at 11am CST online visitors will get a chance to look through our exhibition via our website with additional content such as exhibition virtual tours, a virtual experience of our gallery space, artwork, a chance to purchase Museum Memberships at discounted prices, and ways you can continue to support the Mexic-Arte Museum!
As part of our online opening reception web page, we encourage viewers to party with us from home! DJ Kick It, our DJ for the event will host an Instagram live dance party on Saturday, September 26th from 10:30pm - 12:30am CST! Join us by visiting our Instagram account @mexic_arte and help us spread the word!
About the exhibition
Mexic-Arte Museum proudly presents ELA (Emerging Latinx Artists) 25: Intersección: Choque & Alivio, Intersection: Shock & Relief, (formally known as YLA, Young Latinx Artists) which celebrates the last twenty five years of exhibitions featuring emerging Latinx artists. This exhibition will showcase artists converging at the crossroads of aesthetic interests and cultural history. The exhibition aims to discover shared life experiences, a (s)mashup or crash (choque) at intersecting lanes of similarities and differences as expressed in the artistically diverse artworks. In reaction to this historical era of identity politics and civic unrest, these artists respond in a visual dialogue, drawing from their cultural experience and sociopolitical consciousness. This year’s exhibition will be curated by Dr. George Vargas, Curator and Director of Programs at Mexic-Arte Museum.
Selected artists are Texas based. They have participated in previous YLA exhibitions (YLA16 – YLA24) and have created new artworks that speak to the exhibition concept.
This year as part of our El Mero Muro program, Mexic-Arte commissioned three women artists to create two new murals, which complement the ELA 25 exhibition. Local artists Niz and Sade Lawson are collaborating on a mural that celebrates the Latinx and Black experience of America, while calling for equality, unity, creative change, and voting rights. El Paso artist Christin Apodaca will paint the second mural, addressing the COVID epidemic and its great impact on the Latinx community in Austin. The two murals will be located on the Museum’s exterior wall on 5th St. at Congress Avenue.
SELECTED ARTISTS:
Ashley Mireles, San Antonio, YLA22
Jose Villalobos, San Antonio, YLA22
Michael Anthony Garcia, Austin, YLA18 curator
Alejandro Macias, Brownsville, YLA23
Hatziel Flores, Dallas, YLA21
Jellyfish Collective, El Paso, YLA17
Michael Menchaca, San Antonio, YLA16
Hope Mora, Pecos, TX, YLA20
Suzy Gonzalez, San Antonio, YLA19
Yareth Fernandez, Austin, YLA24
Niz, Austin, YLA17, El Mero Muro muralist
Sade Lawson, Austin, El Mero Muro muralist
Christin Apodaca, El Paso, El Mero Muro muralist