Juxtapoz Magazine - Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum

"The fifty-eight artists in the exhibition-and those in the Latinx field more broadly-encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines. This exhibition therefore celebrates artists whose expressions are first and foremost personal and subjective, but whose heterogeneous and culturally specific interventions enrich one another and the history of American and contemporary art, two fields from which such artists have been historically excluded."

"The show's intergenerational and regionally broad dialogue is reflected in seven thematic groupings: (New) Histories, offering new perspectives on personal, cultural, and global histories; Bodies & Figures, representations of and by marginalized people, considering the importance of the body, and who is or isn't seen in an image; Identity/Place, a consideration of how identity and place shape each other with a diasporic lens; Land/tierra, varied approaches to land and the built environment, from the material to the imaginary; Community, highlighting various communities-artistic, blood, and chosen-and their importance to populations within the diaspora; Pinturx, contemporary Latinx approaches to traditional painting genres like still life and portraiture; and Abstractions, exploring centuries-long Indigenous and European abstract traditions still in use by artists today."

This exhibition features fifty-eight contemporary Latinx artists whose work challenges established boundaries in painting and art history. The artists' personal and subjective expressions, while culturally specific, collectively enrich American and contemporary art fields from which Latinx artists have been historically excluded. Organized into seven thematic groupings—(New) Histories, Bodies & Figures, Identity/Place, Land/tierra, Community, Pinturx, and Abstractions—the show presents an intergenerational and regionally diverse dialogue. The exhibition celebrates the complexity and abundance of Latinx artistic expression, inspired by poet Juan Felipe Herrera's work, and demonstrates how heterogeneous interventions within traditional painting practices reveal the continued relevance of interrogating political and disciplinary boundaries.

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