Looking for a Hero, or Whips, Whims, and Wigs, and Gio Ponti is Just an Excuse

Solo Exhibition

The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology
Houston, Texas

March 29–May 29, 2019

View Looking for a Hero… at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology.

Looking for a Hero, or Whips, Whims, and Wigs, and Gio Ponti is just an Excuse opens a dialogue about problems related to domestic labor and immigration. The focus of investigation is centered around my memories of growing up in Venezuela. However, becoming an adult and living in the USA for 19 years have allowed me to see that this problem exists here and worldwide. Through this body of work, I infiltrate these issues of social inequalities by appropriating the ornamental aspects associated with folk art and geometric abstraction.

This exhibition was supported in part by grants from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance.

Metallic Tears, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches.
Metallic Tears
Cosmic Angel, Constellation 1, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
Cosmic Angel, Constellation 1
Pontricalisimo, 2019. Acrylic_Canvas, 60 x 48 in
Pontricalisimo
Cunaguaro, Constellation 2, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 120 inches.
Cunaguaro, Constellation 2
Mops, 2019. Assemblage, various materials.
Mops
Mop 1, 2019 (detail) (from the series “Whips, Whims, and Wigs”). Assemblage, various materials.
Mop 1
Mop 2, 2019 (detail) (from the series “Whips, Whims, and Wigs”). Assemblage, various materials.
Mop 2
Mop 3, 2019 (detail, from the series “Whips, Whims, and Wigs”). Assemblage, various materials.
Mop 3
Uniforms, 2019. Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
Uniforms
4:30 AM, 2019 (front, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
4:30 am (front)
4:30 AM, 2019 (back, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
4:30 am (back)
Wish I Could Eat with Them, 2019 (front, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
With I Could Eat with Them (front)
Wish I Could Eat with Them, 2019 (back, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
With I Could Eat with Them (back)
Homesick, 2019 (front, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
Homesick (front)
Homesick, 2019 (back, detail, from the series “Early Birds”). Hand-painted domestic-worker uniforms.
Homesick (back)
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