Exhibitions

UPCOMING

August 1, 2025–January 25, 2026

BAY AREA THEN

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

“ What does it mean to live with possibility? To live in a moment when artists and citizens reject fear and find power in discovery? For those who came of age in the Bay Area with the apocalyptic uncertainty of nuclear proliferation and the AIDS crisis; the devastation of the Loma Prieta earthquake and the Oakland firestorm; the audacious acquittal of LAPD officers Koon, Wind, and Briseno and the disembodied destruction of the first Gulf War; the road was bleak. And yet the energy in the cultural sector at the time was electrified.

Bay Area Then presents works by Nao Bustamante, Carolyn Castaño, Bill Daniel, Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari, Beatrix Fowler, Mike “Dream” Francisco, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson and Ajax Oakford, Arnold Kemp, Margaret Kilgallen, Josh Lazcano, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, Ruby Neri, Manuel Ocampo, Eamon Ore-Giron, Gina Osterloh, Rigo 23, Spie One, and others. Bay Area Then is organized by guest curator Eungie Joo.” [LINK]

16 March, 2024 –
4 May 2024

Otros Seres

Walter Maciel Gallery
Los Angeles, California, USA

1 October, 2023 –
7 January 2024

Cumanday: Beautiful Mountain

Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California, USA

Cumanday: Beautiful Mountain is an ode to the tradition of landscape representation and the disappearing glaciers in Colombia.

10 September, 2022 –
29 October 2022

Future Ruana

Walter Maciel Gallery
Los Angeles, California, USA

This new body of work, revisits the utopian promise of Modernism while paying homage South America’s Pre-Columbian gold empire and my cultural identity as a Colombian-American. The paintings in Future Ruana adopt several visual languages: abstraction, collage, watercolor painting, screen-printing, fabric and sequin appliqués. The show is named after the humble ruana, a woolen poncho worn up and down the Andes used as a multipurpose, utilitarian object for warmth and protection or laid on the floor for comfort as a rug or bed. Here the ruana is reimagined as both a metaphorical object with speculative implications like a magic carpet or as a cape for flying, and also as a visual component where the underlying structure of the ruana serve as compositional strategy for the paintings.