Portrait of Jackie Amézquita. Below, Oro Negro (Black Gold), 2024. Soil source from Los Angeles neighborhoods, masa (corn dough), salt and cal (limestone) frame with copper. Courtesy of the Artist and Charlie James Gallery. Photo: 2024 Yubo Dong, ofstudio © Jackie Amézquita.
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “Earth as Living Element: An Artist Lecture with Jackie Amézquita” at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
As part of the programming for the current exhibition Accretion: Works by Latin American Women, exhibiting artist Jackie Amézquita will join us to discuss her distinctive artistic practice.
The artist’s works often examine the physical, political, and emotional implications of migration, and, on display inAccretion, the piece Oro Negro illustrates that the migrant experience does not end once the border is crossed but persists in the experience of existing amidst discriminatory planning and zoning politics.
Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
Free SBMA Members, Students, and Teachers/$10 Non-Members
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More about Jackie Amézquita:
Jackie Amézquita (Quetzaltengo, Guatemala, b.1985) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice. Her research is articulated through the use of biomaterials and forms associated with pre-Columbian cultures. Amézquita creates public performances, installations, and objects that fuse indigenous mythologies with contemporary community engagement.
Amézquita received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2022 and her B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, in 2018. She has exhibited with The Hammer Museum, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) CA, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) CA, 18th St Art Center CA, The Armory Center of the Arts CA, Vincent Price Art Museum CA, The Annenberg Space for Photography CA, Human Resources Los Angeles CA, MAD (Museum of Art and Design) NY. Amézquita is the recipient of the Mohn Public Recognition Award (2023), Mohn Land Award (2022), Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts Los Angeles Art Fund (2022), and National Performance Network Fund (2022). Amézquita has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, ARTnews, and The Art Newspaper, LA. Weekly, and Hyperallergic.
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Upcoming Artist Talk:
Sunday, March 30, 2 pm
In Conversation with Artist Joey Terrill