Artist's talk: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

Event Date: 
Thursday, November 6, 2014 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Event Location: 
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall

The CSRC is pleased to welcome fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood for an artist's talk. Underwood's work is currently on view in Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art, an exhibition featuring six California artists whose work explores the visual impact of immigration and migration, at California State University, Dominguez Hills's (CSUDH) University Art Gallery. The exhibition is on view through December 4.

Underwood has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally for more than twenty-five years. Her work is part of the permanent collections of museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NM), and the Mexican Museum of San Francisco. Her contributions to the contemporary Chicano and Fiber art movements have been referenced in multiple critical publications.  She was born in Sacramento and received her BA and her MA from San Diego State University in 1981.  She began teaching fiber art at San Jose State University after receiving her MFA there in 1987. “My work reflects the quiet rage that has permeated the Americas for more than five hundred years,” she says.

The artist was inspired by her father who was of Huichol descent.  She remembers wearing colorful dresses that he would weave for her on a frame loom.  Her mother would spend hours doing needlework, which would then be used as utility or decorative cloths.  Years later, these memories influenced her  decision to implement the “thread arts” as a viable means of artistic expression.

Underwood will bring some of her handmade rebozos to the event at the CSRC.

This event is FREE.

Watch the video of this event here.

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