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For Mexican-Americans, the idea of a border wall between the two countries can be soul-splitting.
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When curator and scholar Kathy Battista was researching her most recent book, New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices
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Mansión Magnolia is a public space located in Guadalajara, Mexico that was Argote’s ancestral home and serves as the exhibition’s title.
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A few years ago, the Los Angeles-based, Mexican-born artist Carmen Argote was teaching ceramics to youth at LA's Inner City Arts, when she received a grant that allowed her to take some time away from her full-time job and focus on her photography.
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Expressions of both individual psychology and grand family histories are easily found in the architecture of a past home.
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Carmen Argote received her BA in 2004 and MFA in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Argote is the recipient of a 2013 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and a public art commission for the Metro Expo Line 17th/SMC Station in Santa Monica, CA, 2013-2016.
Recent solo exhibitions include "A Vast Furniture", MAK Center & High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles/29 Palms, CA (2015); "My Father's Side of Home", Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (2014); "720 sq.ft. Shape Seeps Through", Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2013); "720 Sq.ft. Household Mutations", G727, Los Angeles, CA (2010).
Select recent group exhibitions include "Drawings /Fridges", Green Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (2015); "The House on Mango Street", The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL (2015); Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA (2015); 5th Chicana/o Biennial, MACLA, San Jose, CA (2014); "Watermelons, no catchies or bouncies", Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA (2014); "Million Year Picnic", Gallery Fu, Japan (2014); "Unsparing Quality", Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (2014); SUR Biennial, Rio Hondo College and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2013); "Surface Tension_LA", G727, Los Angeles, CA (2010); “Never Ending Beginnings”, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, Faculty Exhibition (2008); "Terra-Byte 3.0", The Arboretum of Los Angeles County, Arcadia, CA (2008); "Everything Must Go”, Harvey Levine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2007).
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
