In La Jolla exhibition, Texas-raised Chicano artist will display more than 40 years worth of work at MCASD
These words, spoken by artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz, echo through my mind as I walk with her around the La Jolla Strauss Galleries inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego . In just a few weeks, the Arlington, Texas-based artist will be here again to open “Breaking the Binding,” the first career retrospective of Álvarez Muñoz’s largely conceptual and installation-based art, and which spans over 40 years of her career.
At first, she intended it as a commentary on the marketing tactics of the fashion industry toward children, with designs that include things like lacy diapers and bedazzled booty shorts. However, the piece took on additional meanings when she installed it as “Fibra y Furia: Exploitation is in Vogue” in 1999 at the Irving Art Center in Irving, Texas.
Of the entire series, “Enlightenment #4: Which Came First?” and “Ave María Purísima ” are likely the most revered. The former displays a series of egg photos with recollections from the artist on the difficulties of bilingualism contrasted with workbook-style handwriting intended to convey a young girl having to learn the differences between words like “lay,” “lies,” “laid,” etc.
One of the more surprising things to learn about Álvarez Muñoz is that she didn’t fully start her practice until she was in her 40s when she went back to graduate school at North Texas State University . Still, she doesn’t look back at her early life as a time misspent where she could have spent creating additional art, but rather as a time for “absorbing” and “ingesting” all that would ultimately inform her work.
The intent of the piece, provocative as it was at the time, was clear and clearly ahead of its time: to both comment on and up-end
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