Mexicanisimo through Artists’ eyes @ San Jose Museum of Art 

Event Details

WHEN: Tuesday, March 20th to Sunday, September 23rd WHERE: San Jose Museum of Art 110 S Market St San Jose, CA 95113 Venue Website HOOD: San Jose

COST: $5, included with admission AGE: All ages MORE INFO: Official Website

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Event Description

Traditional versus cutting-edge, high-brow versus low-brow. A new generation of Mexican and Mexican-American artists is fascinated by these potentially contradictory concepts. The artists whose works are featured in this exhibition draw inspiration from Mexico’s deep well of visual culture. Their references include folk art, popular culture, and vernacular craft traditions as well as contemporary idioms: the art collective “La Malagua” has remade the classic Mexican card game lotería, while Gabriel Kuri re-created sales receipts from Superama (Walmart) as a fine Gobelins tapestry.

This exhibition includes works by artists who enlist traditional, refined artisan’s techniques (such as weaving and ceramics) to challenge today’s mass-market consumer culture, alongside the work of artists who transform the most expendable materials into art through their handiwork.