Recorded Feb 22, 2025 — Now available to watch online
On February 22, 2025, SLOMA hosted an artist’s talk with Esteban Cabeza de Baca, whose exhibition, Memories of the Future, launched in the Gray Wing the same day.
In his work, Cabeza de Baca employs a broad range of painterly techniques, entwining layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. His influences range from petroglyphs, from which many of his motifs derive, to Jackson Pollock, who, the artist notes, was in turn influenced by Navajo sand painting. “I want to excavate the impact of colonial acts like that,” he notes. “To go farther with the drip than Pollock did and collide the infinite with the everyday.”
Memories of the Future is generously presented by
Sue Sacks and Kelly Sinnock
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