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Water is an essential and inherently adaptable liquid. It both forms and is formed by
its environment; be it physical, geopolitical, or social.The 8th Young Latino Artists Exhibit,
titled Splitting Aguas, alludes to the fluid properties and characteristics of water as
represented in the work of these artists. Just as the body of water flows, the artists'
body of work is shaped by and in turn itself shapes the landscape.
Water always takes up the form of its container, while defining and redefining that r
space, and changing its surroundings. Geopolitically, the Rio Bravo/Grande is a body
of water that divides two countries, but in reality it unites one common culture.This
river is also social in its nature and path.As a river flows, it moves forward and grows.
Its course is influenced by the landscape through which it runs, as well as by whatever
obstacles that may be put in its way. It is affected by those experiences, allowing it to F
mature while it moves onward. [
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Just like the river flows, these eleven artists-Lisa Alvarado, Pablo Rojas Duarte,Teresa a
Cisneros, Miguel Aragon, John Lerma, Miguel Escobedo, Elizabeth and Maurice Trevino, a
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Jorge Javier L6pez, Eduardo X. Garcia, and Sam de la Rosa-follow their own course.
Their work is as diverse as their media. From photography, digital art, print, and sound,
to painting, performance and sculpture, each of these artists is affected by the context
in which they were raised. Because of their age, without exception, they are part of the
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MTV generation-the Generation X, and their Weltanschauung was formed during and
greatly influenced by a World Wide Web culture.While at the same time, these artists
bring issues into their work that are informed by their direct surroundings, be it their d
family, town, or social community and also directly influenced by the greater art world. b
Each artist has achieved a language of expression that is
personal, yet simultaneously universal.
Like a river that always moves forward creating a personal language based on medium,
the digital work of Eduardo X. Garcia looks to technology as he pushes the boundar-
ies of what has always been important to him:"pieces based on sound and sensation."
Chilean Pablo Rojas Duarte's installation work is clean and beautifully austere as he
looks to everyday events to develop concepts and "edit[s] or abbreviat[es] the original
ideas to the most spare of elements without sacrificing balance, elegance and timing."
John Lerma, through sound art pushes beyond and merges boundaries as he "create[s]
structures which murmur both personal heritage and mathematical randomness."
Several of the artists' work is informed directly by their experience during their forma-
tive years. Teresa Cisneros' photographs of "lenticular holo-graphic faced" "Girls" cap-
ture a child's world where everything seems larger than it really is, questioning
"the perception of childhood as purely innocent." The work of wife-husband team
Elizabeth Pietka and Maurice Trevino touches upon "insecurity, the horrors of financial
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Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.). Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition, June 25 - December 17, 2003, pamphlet, 2003; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1122617/m1/6/?q=%221997~%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mexic-Arte Museum.