Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 12, 2021-June 12, 2022
Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes showcases the lasting impact of Indigenous creative resilience, connecting the vibrant artistic traditions of the past and the present, of Los Angeles and Mexico. This exhibition features the works of contemporary artists and mapmakers who draw on Indigenous cartographic and artistic histories to challenge dominant narratives about place and belonging. Artworks include Mariana Castillo Deball’s Vista de Ojos (2014), a wooden pavement etched with the oldest map of Mexico City as originally illustrated by a tlacuilo (Indigenous mapmaker); a series of maps by Sandy Rodriguez, who paints with traditional pigments on amate paper to explore the intersection of social memory and contemporary politics; and an interactive map of the Indigenous communities of Los Angeles, produced by Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO).
Text source: https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/mixpantli-contemporary-echoes
Photos of exhibition courtesy and © Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Works on view:
Rainbows, Grizzlies, and Snakes!, Oh My! Conquest to Caging in Los Angeles, 94 ½ x 94 in, hand processed watercolor on amate paper, 2019. Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Mapa de Los Angeles: For those Killed by Police in 2018, 47 x 94 ½ in, hand processed watercolor on amate paper, 2018. Collection of the artist.
Eje cósmico / Old Verdugo, 94 ½ x 94 ½ in, hand processed watercolor on amate paper, 2020-2022. Collection of the artist.
De las Señales y Pronosticós and I.C.E. Raids de Califas 2018, 94 ½ x 47 in, hand processed watercolor on amate paper, 2018. Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.
Mapa de Los Angeles 2020 - For Our Neighbors Killed by Police Amid Protests and Pandemic, 74 ½ x 47 in, hand processed watercolor with 23k gold on amate paper, 2021. Collection of the artist.
You Will Not Be Forgotten - Mapa for the children killed in custody of US Customs and Border Protection 2018-2019, 94 ½ x 47 in, hand processed watercolor with 23k gold on amate paper, 2020. Collection of Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX.