[Location]
Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Ave
San Diego, CA 92104
[Exhibition Description]
Sept. 1 thru Oct. 25, 2014
Artist Receptions: Saturday, Sept. 13, 6-10pm Saturday, Oct. 11, 6-10pm
The Feminist Image Group (FIG) and Tijuana's Distrito Diez Gallery are pleased to present “Fence/Barda,” an interactive, collaborative installation at Art Produce Gallery in San Diego. A fence divides the gallery, cutting the space in half; to get to the other side, artists and guests must travel outside along a path through the Art Produce garden. Participants will interact through and around the fence throughout the installation and exhibition, using objects and performative gestures that reflect the reality of the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region.
“Fence/Barda” attempts to demonstrate how women navigate across borders. Spontaneous collaborations between artists of different cultures, conflicts of space and identity, and attempts to transcend barriers will be addressed. The installation will include video, photography, paintings and sculptural objects, as well as book-making, sewing, games and food performances. The gallery space will be in constant flux.
Sept. 25, 6pm “Metta Performance,” led by Moya Devine A contemplative temporal experience of self and other; METTA is a practice of loving kindness and goodwill seeking the happiness and wellbeing of others and intends to overcome all separation and border or boundary of race, ethnicity, nationality, economics or other separate identity.
Oct 2, 6pm: "Bi-National Exhibitions" Panel Discussion: Alessandra Moctezuma, Jill Holslin, Anna Stump, Cecilia Navarro, Aida Valencia, and others to be announced A panel discussion on the merits and challenges of organizing Bi-National Exhibitions will take place at Art Produce on Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7pm. "The Fence / La Barda" is the jumping off point for a lively discussion on how and why art exhibitions across borders can and should be organized. Panelists will discuss past exhibitions such as In-Site (US/Mexico) and the "Trade Show" (US/Turkey), as well as specific issues raised by "The Fence / La Barda."
Oct 11, 6 pm: "Art as a Public Safety Intervention in Border Communities" by Gabriela Posada del Real, Tijuana In 2008, Tijuana designer Gabriela Posada del Real started a group called "Reacciona Tijuana" to "react" and respond to the violence plaguing the region. The idea was to empower local communities through art and architecture inventions near their homes. Today she runs a project that has expanded to cities throughout Mexico.
Oct 18, 7pm "Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana" In six research trips, Minnesotan photographers Laura Migliorino and Anthony Marchetti documented architectural traces in Tijuana of houses that were built and occupied in San Diego and then sold and transported to Tijuana as castaway housing where homeowners recycled these buildings turning houses into homes. Migliorino and Marchetti are also exploring issues of border and community on the US-Canadian border in Minnesota.
Birds Fly Over the Fence / Casas van Volando sobre la Barda
$100 each
FIG artists: Irene Abraham, Stephanie Bedwell, Stacie Birky-Greene, Lauren Carrera, Moya Devine, Prudence Horne, Lisa Hutton, Bhavna Mehta, Susan Myrland, Kathy Nida, Kim Neihans, Anna Stump, Anna Zappoli
San Diego City College students: Drafton Bunch, Jana Counts, Mark Cujak, Alexi Fernandez, Kathleen Forrey, Jesus Hernandez, Frances Mann, Gopika Mayell, Danielle Pino, Nicholas Prior, Oliver Reed, Melissa Riley, Moses Tapia
Houses Fly over the Fence / Pajaros Vuelan sobre la Barda
prices upon request
Grace Gray-Adams Linda Litteral Kathy Nida Terrilyn Quick Cindy Zimmerman
Southwestern College students: Karen Aceves, Jacqueline Ang, Gabriella Buhain, Jorge Castro, George Causton, Shaquasia Dixon-Evans, Abelardo Felix, Cesar Gonzalez, Isaiah Marc Guerrero, Lawrence Guintu, Mignon Ingram, Mazen Kiki, Edward Lintz, Alexis Lopez, Berlin Lopez, Chasedy Murphy, Maribella Nunez, Mariela Nunez, Alejandra Ocampo, Alina Olaso, Moises Rico, Jilliane Mae Roque, Jose Sierra, Nicholas Stenberg
Junk Mail Birds / Pajaros de Correo Basura (in windows)
Stacie Birky-Greene
Short Length: $30, Long Length: $50
Fence / Barda
designed by Grace Gray-Adams and Linda Litteral
Table / Mesa
designed by Terri Hughes-Oelrich and Lynn Susholtz
Discontent (Poem)
written by Nilly Gill, translated by Adriana Rosete
Find Me at the Fence / Nos Vemos en la Cerca (Book / Libro)
Daphne Hill, Bhavna Mehta, Kathy Miller
Elba Roades
Hermanos. 2014 Oleo sobre tela
Brothers Oil on canvas
48 inches x 48 inches $3800
Nubia Velazquez
Sin titulo, 2014 Escultura, Técnica mixta, alambre, tela, cerámica
Untitled Three sculptures. Mixed media, wire, burlap and ceramic
Martha Soto
Abandonadas, 2014 Escultura, cerámica
The Abandoned Ones Ceramic sculpture
$250 each (can be sold separately)
Lourdes Huerta
Cadena Perpetua, 2014 Gouache
Eternal Chain Goauche
No a la venta, not for sale
Claudia Ramirez
Fragmentacion Monetaria, 2011 Laser xilografía estampada sobre etiquetas de precios
Monetary Fragmentation Laser wood engraving stamp on price tags
26.5 cm x 26.5 cm in wood & glass frame $500
Cecilia Navarro
Huellas, 2014 Fotografía de color
Footprints Color photograph
16 inches x 18 inches $285
Ana Andrade
Lado Izquierda de la Memoria, 2014 Impresion digital Lomográfica
The Left Side of the Memory Lomographic digital print
18 inches x 18 inches $500
Claudia Ramirez
Kanji, 2014 Tinta china, acuarela y sellos
Kanji Chinese calligraphy ink, watercolor and stamps
10 inches x 16 inches, wood & glass frame $500
Jill Marie Holslin
Joselito, 2009 Fotografía de color en papel metalico
Joselito Color digital photograph on metallic paper on wood
12 inches x 18 inches $200
Jill Marie Holslin
Toño Linea XIII, 2012 Fotografía de color en papel metalico
Toño The Border XIII Color digital photograph on metallic paper on wood
12 inches x 18 inches $200
Jill Marie Holslin
Gaby nunca te olvidaré, 2013 Fotografía de color en papel metalico
Gaby I Will Never Forget You Color digital photograph on metallic paper on wood
12 inches x 18 inches $200
Jill Marie Holslin
Oxaca, 2012 Fotografía de color en papel metalico.
Oxaca Color digital photograph on metallic paper.
24 inches x 30 inches $300
Gabriela Escárcega
Mujer de fuego, 2013 Técnica mixta, 20,000 cerillos
Woman on Fire Mixed media, 20,000 matches
$2500
Monica Giselle
Sin titulo, 2014 Bordado
Untitled
Mariel Miranda
Tijuana (1990) – Nueva York (1950) Fotografías (medidas variables), vidrio y acetato
Mi proyecto es una revisión introspectiva a través de la reapropiación de dos acervos fotográficos: el de mi familia y el de una familia norteamericana. Esta serie, apuesta por echar una mirada de nosotrxs mismxs en las y en los otrxs.
Tijuana (1990) – New York (1950) Photographs, glass
My project is an introspective interpretation through the reappropriation of two photographic archives–family photographs of my own family in Tijuana and another set of a North American family. This series encourages us to take a closer look at ourselves through the reflection of our own lives in that of others.
50cm x 40cm Not for sale
Fio Zenjim
Dos cielos, un cosmos, 2014 Acrílico en madera
Two Skies, One Cosmos Acrylic on plywood
$1500
Panca
Sin titulo, 2014
Acrílico en madera
Untitled
Acrylic on wood
Ana Andrade
"El Gato Julio Romero Salas" (2012)
17:34 min
Digital Video
Tijuana BC
2012 - 2013
“El Gato – Julio Romero Salas” es un personaje que vive en la canalización del rio Tijuana. Después de haber dejado las drogas y el alcohol, decide dirigir una película documental – musical donde muestra que el amor de Dios es la razón por la cual logra combatir el vicio. Asimismo, ilustra una realidad que vive el hombre deportado de los Estados Unidos de Norte América en la ciudad de Tijuana.
"Uk Baalam" (2013)
10:00 min
Video Digital
Tijuana BC
2013
“Uk Báalam” nos presenta a “Yuca”, un descendiente Maya que revela los misterios del rio y lo que se oculta ante los ojos de los habitantes de la localidad. La diversidad silvestre, las dinámicas sociales del canal, y la caza y cocina de palomas son algunos de los conocimientos que el personaje presenta, revelando al mismo tiempo a manera de anécdotas inconscientes memorias de su niñez en Yucatán, de la supervivencia en el rio, de su conocimiento de la lengua y cultura Maya y de su propia transformación a partir de su deportación de Estados Unidos a la ciudad de Tijuana, México.
[FIG Artists]
Anna Stump, Grace Gray-Adams, Bhavna Mehta, Terri Hughes-Oelrich, Linda Litteral, Kathy Nida, Cindy Zimmerman, Lynn Susholtz, Irene Abraham, Stacie Birky-Greene, Lauren Carrera, Daphne Hill, Prudence Horne, Jennifer Bennett, Moya Devine, Nilly Gill, Terrilynn Quick, Kathy Miller, Susan Myrland, Stephanie Bedwell, Lisa Hutton, Kim Niehans, Anna Zappoli and others.
[Distrito Diez Gallery Participants]
Cecilia Navarro of Distrito 10, Curator; Jill Marie Holslin, Curator, photography and a talk; Marta Soto, Sculpture; Nubia Velazquez, Sculpture; Claudia Ramirez, engraving; Mariel Miranda, photography; Ana Andrade, photography and video, and a talk; Monica Giselle, ceramic and mixed media; Fio Zemjim, sculpture installation; Panca, painting; Gabriela Posada del Real, a talk, art in community development projects; Laura Migliorino and Anthony Marchetti, Minnesota artists who will be here to do a presentation on the transported houses from San Diego to Tijuana; Irma Sofía Poeter, mixed media, fabric art, and a talk; Lourdes Huerta, painting; Gabriela Escárcega, sculpture;
