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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, American Foods: Corn, Bean, Squash, 2019
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, American Foods: Corn, Bean, Squash, 2019
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, American Foods: Corn, Bean, Squash, 2019

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

American Foods: Corn, Bean, Squash, 2019
Woven, pinned. Cotton fabric, natural and synthetic fibers, leather barbed wire, safety pins, buttons, and glass beads
19 x 45 in each, 63 x 45 in total
48.3 x 114.3 cm each, 160 x 114.3 cm in total
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ), currently selected., currently selected., currently selected. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Virgen de los Nopales, 2005
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Virgen de los Nopales, 2005
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Virgen de los Nopales, 2005
The ancient American diet of corn, beans, and squash—known as Las Tres Hermanas, or the Three Sisters—form complete proteins when eaten together and thrive when planted together. Each woven piece...
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The ancient American diet of corn, beans, and squash—known as Las Tres Hermanas, or the Three Sisters—form complete proteins when eaten together and thrive when planted together. Each woven piece represents one of these staple foods, but is split with barbed wire imagery, referencing imposed restrictions placed on now sterilized seeds and controlled food supplies. The viewer is called to reflect on how borders affect all realms of life and culture, food and diet included.

"Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's work jumps off the loom and canvas to invite us to reweave ourselves into the fabric of a more real reality, that of Nature, of which we are each vital strands of living, intelligent energy. We can recycle the waste of this era, which we have inherited and learned to reproduce, into new social fabrics in harmony with ecological well-being... Jimenez Underwood's work suggests that we can reweave ourselves with fibers of deeper perception, greater care, and much needed creativity for the greater good." Laura E. Perez and Ann Marie Leimer, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Art, Weaving, Vision, Duke University Press, 2022
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Exhibitions

Ruiz-Healy Art at The Armory Show, New York, NY; curator: Candice Hopkins, 2023
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: One Nation Underground, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2022
Woven: Connections and Meanings, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2019

Literature

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

Glasstire, December 14, 2022 (illustrated)

Petty, Kathleen, "See Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Work at Ruiz-Healy Art," San Antonio Magazine, January/February 2023 (illustrated)

Publications

Laura E. Perez and Ann Marie Leimer, eds., Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2022
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