August, 2016
“Catalog of Matamoros vendedores ambulantes” by Mark Clark | Oil on Linen
“Dance of the Three Powers” by Mark Clark | Oil on Linen
JUNTOS Art Association Takes Show on the Road
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| By: LAUREN MACIAS-CERVANTES | f you grew up on the border, or now call
Molina handpicked more than 60 pieces of
that culture in one sense or another. There is,
it home, you know cultural icons and
art from more than 20 artists around the
among other things, humor and irony in the
symbols are abundant in our region.
US-Mexico Border. The artistic renditions in
viewpoint my work expresses.”
Our culturally diverse international
this collection provide a regional context by
location offers unique experiences and
which viewers can reflect upon their roots,
The show includes Martinez’s “Mona Lupe,”
unforgettable encounters – from the
bridge connections to their cultural and
a fusion of The Mona Lisa and the Virgen
traditional Mexican market scene with street
environmental landscape, and envision their
of Guadalupe; works depicting borderland
vendors to an indigenous medicine man to
place within a global community. Each piece
foods and landscapes and mixed media
bullfighting. Now, one local art organization
in the exhibit will be displayed in different
pieces like “Lucha de Arte” by Wayne Hilton.
is taking some of those Borderland treasures
categories: environmental landscape, food
“In many of the border communities, the
cross country in a traveling exhibit named
and drink, and the sacred and the profane.
Lucha is just part of that Mexican culture that we identify with,” explained Hilton. “I think
“Icons and Symbols of the Borderlands.”
“Like many of the artists in the show, I am a
there is something magic about living in a
“We’re a collective experience on the
native of the border with Mexico and have a
border community, there really is. I think you
border,” said JUNTOS Art Association artistic
good perspective on the culture,” said César
get an energy that comes from the fact that
director, Diana Molina. “I wanted to share
A. Martínez. “Most of my work deals with
you have two countries next to each other.”
the border story with others.”
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