event|10.05.24 | 3:00PM
In Coversation: Artist and Curator
with artist Juana Alicia
and curator Marco Antonio Flores
Artist Juana Alicia and exhibition curator Marco Antonio Flores will discuss Juana Alicia’s significant contributions to the Bay Area mural scene and her new project, La X’tabay: The Book of Books, created in collaboration with author Tirso González Araiza.
Saturday, October 5, 3 PM$20 for SVMA members / $25 for non-members.Pre-registration is required to attend this event.
Registration closes on Oct 4 at 5 PM.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Juana Alicia was born in 1953 in Newark, NJ and has been based in the Bay Area since 1973. Alicia is a key figure in the Chicano Art movement and her murals can been seen across the globe, and in the Bay Area at notable sites such as The Women’s Building, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, University of California in Santa Cruz, and numerous other locations. Her highly political work has deep ties to activism and comments on the injustices we grapple with, particularly through the intersectional lenses of decolonization, feminism, and Mexican and Indigenous identity, as well as hope for a more equitable and just world. Juana Alicia spends time between Berkeley and Mérida, Yucatán.
Marco Antonio Flores is a doctoral student at Stanford University where he specializes in modern and contemporary art of the United States and Latin America. In 2019, he curated staring at the sun, a solo exhibition featuring rafa esparza at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Flores received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a second M.A. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Cenote de Sueños: The Art of Juana Alicia
Exhibition Dates: 09.21.24 - 01.05.25
This exhibition of distinguished artist Juana Alicia features a wide range of works from her artistic career. Many of the works draw their inspiration from literature. While Juana Alicia is best known for her work as a muralist throughout the Bay Area and in Mexico, this exhibition will present Juana Alicia’s most recent illustration project, La X’tabay: The Book of Books (2024), a collaboration with author Tirso González Araiza. Juana Alicia’s two works in the form of codexes reflect the artist’s mastery while also capturing elements of Latin American literary movements found throughout her larger body of work. Cenote de Sueños will feature paintings that address women’s creative power in addressing issues of social justice.
Juana Alicia divides her time between her studios in Berkeley, California and Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. During four decades of teaching, Juana Alicia founded and directed several educational institutions that supported young artists. She taught at several universities, including the University of California at Davis and Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University. Retired from academia, she is now engaged in a full-time studio practice.
Curated by Marco Antonio Flores.
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 21, 20245-7 PM – Members and General Public
Event is free for SVMA members, and $10 for non-members.
Pre-registration is required to attend this event. Registration closes on Sept 20 at 5 PM.
Exhibition Sponsors:
Kimberly & Simon Blattner
Nancy Fee
Monica and Mark Jacobson
KHR McNeely Family Fund
Leslie and Mac McQuown
Elaine and Graham Smith
Dana Simpson-Stokes and Ken Stokes
Judy and Les Vadasz
Estate of Zoe Longfield
14 de diciembre 2023
a las 19 horas
Decembeer 14, 2023
at 7 pm
Inauguración de la exposición
Opening Night of the Exhibit
14 de diciembre 2023-
18 de mayo 2024
December 14, 2023-
May 18 , 2024
El Libro de los Libros de la Xtabay
The Book of Books of the X'tabay
Próximamente:
Taller de Esgrafiado con los artistas
Coming soon:
A workshop in scratchboard with the artists
