Essays

The Four Elements and Restorative Balance in Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Disease Throwers”

Kevin Cruz Amaya

Seven black baseball caps covered in shattered polarized glass are stacked on each other and hung vertically on a steel rod.

Presence in Absence: Verónica Gaona’s “Spanning Worlds”

Javier Arellano Vences

Round glass forms are suspended from a series of mobiles in a gallery. The forms vary in color and shape, including teal, blue, brown, black, and orange with colorful accents.

To Breathe Full and Free: Abstraction and Reprieve in María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ “The Rise of the Butterflies”

Kaillee Coleman

A person with brown skin pushes a cleaning cart in front of a colorful painting by Henri Matisse.

Redefining Maintenance Art through Migrant Imaginaries: Jay Lynn Gomez’s Aesthetics of Labor

María Eugenia López-García

Fragmented cut-outs of women’s body parts are suspended in air, some of which are photographs, and others of which feature silhouetted forms covered in tropical floral prints.

The Construction of Paradise: Joiri Minaya’s Subversion of Colonial Encounters within Caribbean Tourism

Bettina Pérez Martínez

A long narrow canvas depicting intricate patterns is suspended from two opposing points of the ceiling over a flight of stairs in a U-shape.

Cambiando Vistas/ Shifting Views: Carolina Caycedo and Decolonial Ways of Seeing

Joseph Daniel Valencia

A person with dark skin wearing a yellow dress is sitting and pulls an opaque plastic helmet over their face. They are surrounded by small video screens and tropical foliage.

Las Nietas de Nonó: “Ilustraciones de la Mecánica” and Spaces of Refusal

Estefanía Vallejo Santiago

A jaguar statue sits atop a tri-fold display covered in black fur with framed black and white images to the right and left of a middle section that includes an assortment of books, human remains, and other objects dipped in blood and gold.

Genesis and Apocalypse in Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s “The Memorial…”

Néstor David Pastor López

The Border Is Non-Binary: Leslie Martinez and the Fluidity of Form

Evan Garza

Casa-Isla/House-Island: Edra Soto’s Reimagining of Insularity

Elizabeth Mirabal