Sweety’s Radio: Edicion Especial culminates with an exhibition showcasing the individual work of Sweety’s members. A group of friends and collaborators that came together to address the lack of spaces explicitly for black and brown artists, Sweety’s developed and continues to provide a platform for queer artists of color.In this final exhibition, the four members–Ximena …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español)Raul grew up between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and his drawings often reference the landscape, buildings, and characters from his childhood. Raul’s work on Lowriders in Space is done completely in ballpoint pen, a decision to reference his first tools as a young artist, often making fan art of comic …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español) Elia Alba’s installation for Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial will include three videos, Unruhe, Se Revela, Se Devela and Gigglers, all made between 2001 and 2010. These works show Alba’s manipulation of reality as fantasy and vice versa, always within a societal framework informing this dynamic. In Unruhe, Alba focuses on this German word, meaning …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español) This year marks the 20th anniversary Emanuel Xavier’s self-published chapbook Pier Queen, a poetic manifesto about his personal experiences coming of age as a former street hustler, drug dealer/addict, homeless youth and survivor of child abuse. To celebrate this LGBTQ Latinx and POC milestone, Rebel Satori Press has reissued the book …
GALLERY TEXT (SPANISH) Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial kicks off with the work of Cecilia Gentili. In an exhibition that brings together images, objects, and oral herstories that collectively speak of the impact of Gentili’s work as a mentor and muse, as well as the importance of community and agency in the documentation of trans-femme realities. The …
