Public Reception for Eva Gabriella Flynn: Volver

The exhibition is open throughout August and September during daylight hours!

Public Reception
Food and Drinks
Free!

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Curatorial Statement
The human and non-human inhabitants of the Chihuahuan desert predate the US-Mexico border. Ancestors of the humans living there predate the border, predate colonialism as a whole in many cases. Some are colonizers, some are colonized, and many are some combination. The non-human beings enjoyed free movement since time immemorial, but walls, borders, and other human interventions have disrupted this natural landscape. Human communities have also been divided by this imaginary line. The movement of people has been restricted, but ebbs and flows with border policies, which change with administrations and laws and often feel as arbitrary and capricious as an imaginary line on a map.

For Volver, Eva Gabriella Flynn creates flags with found fabrics and natural dyes that are procured from home and the desert. These flags reference the land, the sky, and the human and non-human inhabitants of the border region. They don’t represent nations or states but ideals, ideas, and emotions. They are both more nebulous and more concrete than country flags. They are poetic and grounded. They represent a past and a future where the land and its inhabitants take center stage over politics and imaginary lines meant to divide.

Artist Biography
Eva Gabriella Flynn is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist whose work intertwines personal and historical narratives of the US/Mexico border. Her imagery is inspired by both the psychological and physical landscapes that shape the borderland region she calls home. Eva Gabriella is from Las Cruces, NM where she attended New Mexico State University and received a BFA in Studio Arts and a BA in Foreign Languages. She earned her MFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Most recently, Eva Gabriella was a recipient of the Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, 2022 Emerging Artist of New Mexico grant and award, and a Meghan Furgueson Mraz award recipient through the Harwood Art Center, and a Spring Artist in Residence at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument. She has exhibited nationally with exhibitions at the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; and Field Projects, NY.