Re:Visión Art in the Americas, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, October 24, 2021-July 17, 2022

ReVisión: Art in the Americas is one of the first exhibitions to open in the renovated Martin Building. A strong selection of nearly 180 objects from the museum’s Ancient American and Latin American Art collections, hailed as one of the best in the country, will tell a visually compelling narrative about the formation of the Americas from 100 B.C. to today.

Text from https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/revision

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1 Mapa de los Child Detention Centers and Family Separations and Other Atrocities Sandy Rodriguez 2018.jpg

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De los Child Detention Centers, Family Separations, and Other Atrocities 2018, 47 x 94 ½ inches, hand-processed dyes and watercolor from native plants and earth pigments on amate paper.

In this re-installation of the Art of the Americas at the Denver Art Museum, I am showing my 2018 Child Detention Center map and calavera copter installation with accompanying interpretive video and catalog.

Excerpt from: Lyall, Victoria I., and Jorge F. Rivas Pérez, eds. ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas. Munich: Hirmer, 2021, p. 33

“This map of the western territory of the United States draws on five hundred years of history, memory, and loss. Thought of as Aztlan, the mythical place of origin of the Aztec peoples, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah formed Mexico's northern territory until the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty formally ended the Mexican-American war and turned those lands over to the U.S. The families living there did not cross the border; the border crossed over them…Like the Aztec tlacuilos, or painter-scribes, Rodriguez conflates time, place, and space to document both a collective and personal history of the border. In southwestern Texas, a cluster of detention centers appear, a reference to the 2018 family separation policy that removed immigrant children who crossed the border from their parents and housed them in these facilities…”