Essays

(Un) tethered Materiality: The Fabric of a Fraught Landscape

Olga U. Herrera

Two red Schwinn bicycles bearing American and Puerto Rican flags are connected by a shared back wheel and face opposing directions. They are positioned in front of a pale blue neon sign reading “Pa-lan-te”.

Riding in Place: Miguel Luciano’s Double Phantom/EntroP.R., (Un)tethered Diasporas, and Anti-Colonialism

Anna Indych-López

Made of Traces: Diasporic (Re)Assemblies in Terrestrial Bodies

Clara Maria Apostolatos

A film still in black and white shows two feet in a pair of low-heeled white shoes against a desert landscape.

With All Her Belongings: The Diasporic Middle Ground in Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera’s Zozobra

Jamie L. Ratliff

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas and Resistance

Kimberly Sandoval

A large metal sculpture resembling a tree stands within a park. From the top of the tree hang seven hundred small sculptures representing the stories of community members.

Árbol de la Vida: Memorias y Voces de la Tierra

Liz Kim

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