Exhibition opening of "Juan de Dios Mora and Zeke Peña" Contemporary at Blue Star 116 Blue Star, Building C San Antonio, TX 78204 First Friday, March 3, 2023, 6 - 9 PM This two-person exhibition explores themes of belonging and community through vivid and fantastic imagery.
Zeke Peña and Juan de Dios Mora have cultivated distinct, graphic styles to build worlds which expand time and space to address immigration and human rights, influenced by science fiction and satirical and cartooning traditions.
El Paso-based artist Zeke Peña makes comics and visual narratives that reclaim stories and remix history. His work is a mash-up of political cartoon, border rasquache and Hip Hop culture that addresses universal themes of identity, politics, ecology and social justice.
San Antonio-based Juan de Dios Mora works in the printmaking technique of relief to create narratives of Mexican-American experiences. His experiences living along the border (US and Mexico) provide an awaking of social and political concepts that heavily influence his artistic, aesthetic and conceptual ideas.
This exhibition will be on view through June 4, 2023.
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