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i grieve for our gone -> Our Wisdoms
friends of orphan signs symbiosis residency: billboard and programrisolana book cohort: book 6720 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87108On view January–May, 2025 I grieve for our gone was a site-specific public artwork visualizing writings by Audre Lorde and bringing her poignant cultural criticism into conversation with Albuquerque’s history of activism, mutual aid, and police brutality. Shortly…
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Laughing doesn’t need your help
Ensemble performance in the Rio Grande Staged in the mostly-dry riverbed of the Rio Grande in the summer of 2025, Laughing doesn’t need your help was a contemporary dance project envisioning a cosmic pull toward connection, even when relief from everyday struggle feels inconceivable. Amid the present moment of climate catastrophe, rapidly escalating administrative violence,…
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Performance Paintings
2020-ongoing An ongoing meditation on the slippage between paintings as performance, exploring complicity, colonization, and wounding.
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We Are. Here Together.
Harwood Art Center09.20.23 – 10.26.23 We Are. Here Together. adapted Maestas’ short film, Yucca goes to group into a richly collaborative exhibition incorporating sculpture, poetry, performance, workshops, costume design, and new media. Mounted as part of the Art & Social Justice Residency, We Are. Here Together. included exhibitions in two gallery spaces, as well as…
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How to Make a Soft Goathead
“How to make a goathead soft” July 2023, Forging: Seed, Forge Project NY Santa Fe Playhouse | Skeletal Series shop/talk, Aug 2022Santa Fe Art Institute | SFAI 140, Jun 2022Coe Center | Word!, May 2022 How to Make A Goathead Soft is an ongoing effort to hand-make up-cycled soft sculptures in the shape of goatheads…
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Yucca goes to group
Plantasia | Millennium Film Workshop, New York City, NY (group), Sept 2022WE PROTECT EACH OTHER | Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo), July 2022the space in between | the space in-between TX, Online (group), Oct 2021 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference 12 | Critical Theories & Practices of Softness,…
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Destruction & Regeneration in the Public Humanities
May 2023 CO-ORGANIZED BY MYSELF AND FELLOW PUBLIC HUMAN JASMINE CHU, Destruction & Regeneration in the Public Humanities was a two-day hybrid event at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage in Providence, RI and online, CEREMONIALLY MARKING THE END OF BROWN UNIVERSITY’S PUBLIC HUMANITIES MASTERS PROGRAM. THIS conference-cum-reunion-cum-funerAL BROUGHT alumni,…
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I’m Sorry (I cannot hold you.)
Vital Spaces June 17-July 24, 2022 The works in my first solo exhibition explore inherited hurt, permeable boundaries, and dubious healing.The selection of paintings and sculptures attempt to unearth, excise, and exorcize intermingled personal and historical traumas from the body as well as place. Review by Alex DeVore Review by Michael Abatemarco PRESS RELEASE PLEASE…
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Tortilla Baby & other stories
Presented as part of Axle Contemporary’s summer series of performance art, Tortilla Baby is a tenderly absurd performance of viviparity, wherein I built myself in to an horno-like structure in order to be born (or perhaps escape) to ruminate on birth, belonging, and the fraught yet intimate relationship between parents and children. Axle Contemporary Summer…
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