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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

Border Flowers Flag, 2008
Stitched, embroidered, silkscreened over dyed recycled cotton and silk fabrics. Silk, cotton embroidery threads
56 x 23 in
142.2 x 58.4 cm
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Border Flowers Flag is part of the artist’s celebrated Flags series. In this rendition of the U.S. flag, the canton is filled with flowers rather than stars, and its stripes...
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Border Flowers Flag is part of the artist’s celebrated Flags series. In this rendition of the U.S. flag, the canton is filled with flowers rather than stars, and its stripes are interlaced with butterflies and flowers. Introducing flora and fauna, particularly the southern border state flowers, helps us reimagine how territories can be defined by their ecosystems instead of the fictive borders that separate states and nations, impacting and destroying local environments in their wake.

In words by Barbara Purcell, “Beauty, grace, and flowers soothe the quiet rage that has permeated theAmericas for over a hundred years,” Jimenez Underwood writes in her artist statement — words that ring clear as I stand before her Border Flowers Flag (2008). The tricornered tapestry, iconically red, white, and blue, features state flowers for stars and strips of tortilla cloths for stripes. Its three corners are reminiscent of the three sisters and the border’s three cultures, as they remain inextricably connected."
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Exhibitions

Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; curator: Gilda Posadas, 2024-25
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: One Nation Underground, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2022
Flower/Xewa Cantons, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, 2011

Literature

Purcell, Barbara. “Indivisible: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s “One Nation Underground” at Ruiz-Healy Art,”

Glasstire, December 14, 2022 (illustrated)

Publications

Laura E. Perez and Ann Marie Leimer, eds., Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2022, between pages 90-91 (illustrated)
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