Opening Reception, Oct 21st, 2023. 6-8pm
On Display Through, Nov 15th, 2023.
MESILLA, NEW MEXICO- “An Emerging Interior” is the exciting first solo show for emerging local artist Angelica Jones. We’ve decided the timing was just too perfect to not open in tandem with the Celia Álvarez Muñoz show “Breaking Binding” at the University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University.
The truly inspiring opening at UAM on Friday night, highlights the over 40 yr career of Celia Álvarez Muñoz, an absolute trailblazer for latina women artists and all artists creating in the US-Mexico borderland. Angelica Jones, a recent BFA grad of NMSU, represents a new generation of young artist’s in the borderplex area who’s creative voices are just beginning to blossom in an area where cultural and social pressures still weigh heavy and scarcity of creative resources can make that process difficult, to say the least. Her work so elegantly encapsulates the tension, even at times a paralysis, of nurturing and developing a vibrant internal creative freedom under the weight of social expectations and the traditional roles most of us have to navigate as artists in this culturally rich and complex borderland.
Casa Otro could not be more excited to help give a platform to Angelica to share and nurture her creative journey. I think you’ll agree that her work is as courageous as it is beautiful and an exciting beginning to her own trailblazing creative career.
ABOUT CASA OTRO:
In a cultural and political climate that both exploits the basest human fear of the “other” and seems bent on the delineation of difference and separation, Casa Otro is intended as an oasis for the creative contemplation of those things that connect rather than divide. It is a space curated for the celebration of the spirit of our collective us-ness that supersedes and transgresses political, religious, socioeconomic or gender biases. It approaches this intention humbly, with an understanding that all people have been complicit to some extent and at some time to the divisive climate of othering.
Through its mixed-use status as a historically significant private home, guest house, gallery and artist residency Casa Otro provides a creative nexus where the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of each of its guests, residents and exhibited artists are explored, articulated and celebrated. By creating a space where sharing, celebrating and critiquing our unique perspectives is safe, we create empathy and compassion—not for the poor, lost “other (otro),” but for us. Nos-otros. Us-others.
Casa Otro is the creative conception of Nathan Smith, artist, photographer, and Las Cruces native.
For additional information, please
contact Nathan Smith,
646-508-1252
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nathan@casaotro.com