Juventino Aranda
In Dreams I Once Believed There Was a Future
July 18 - August 24, 2019
Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” August 1, 6-8pm
Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to present our second one-person exhibition of work by Northwest artist Juventino Aranda. The multimedia artist explores issues of identity, social justice and the marginalization of cultures in today’s United States.
Using a variety of materials and techniques the artist makes work that appropriates images from his childhood and family history. Over-sized replicas of Little Golden books and paintings on Pendleton blankets comment on the artist and his cultural identity.
“I am at the intersection of Mexican and American. Not Hispanic or Latino, yet I feel the effects of the Spanish conquest still– over 500 years later. A search for self-identity informs my process as it relates to Pre-Columbian Mexico and the social, political, and economic struggles of this late capitalistic American nightmare.”
Work in exhibition
Featured
Gel transfer on drywall, black walnut, oil stick on paper
60 x 40 x 3 inches
$7,000