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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-landia

Past exhibition
November 17, 2022 - February 18, 2023 New York City
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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, HiWays to Heaven, 2022, Signed on back of artwork label, Tapestry, metallic threads, 10 x 10 in, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, HiWays to Heaven, 2022, Signed on back of artwork label, Tapestry, metallic threads, 10 x 10 in, 25.4 x 25.4 cm

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions from Consuelo Jimenez Underwood at both our San Antonio and New York City galleries. In 2022, the artist was awarded the Latinx Artist Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind initiative that recognizes 15 of the most compelling Latinx visual artists working in the United States today. The artist is also the subject of a publication, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving Vision, a recent comprehensive analysis of her work and impact on feminist textile art history. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

 

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was born in Sacramento, California to a family of campesinos. As a youth she was placed in a fruit crate while her parents picked the rich agricultural fields and orchards from Sacramento to Calexico, California. It was during this time that Jimenez Underwood developed her unique tri-cultural perspective: Chicana/Indigenous/American. Using this voice Jimenez Underwood interweaves themes and imagery that reflect and revisit social memories.

 

“Redefining the practice of weaving, Jimenez Underwood works with repurposed barbed wire, yellow caution tape, safety pins, and plastic bags and crosses Indigenous, Chicana, European, and Euro-American art practices, pushing the arts of the Americas beyond Eurocentric aesthetics toward culturally hybrid and Indigenous understandings of art making. Jimenez Underwood’s redefinition of weaving and painting alongside the socially and environmentally engaged dimensions of her work position her as one of the most vital artists of our time.” - Excerpt from Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving Vision, Pérez, Laura E. and Ann Marie Leimer, Editors, Duke University Press, 2022.

 

Recent as well as historic works from Jimenez Underwood’s oeuvre are featured in both exhibitions. In San Antonio, One Nation Underground features a large-scale textile work that combines the United States and Mexico flags. Embellished with various fibers, fabric, and barbed wire, the work references the intermingling of culture along the U.S.-Mexico border. In New York City, the artist’s historical 1991 work Night Lights integrates silk screen and weaving techniques. Warholian images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Aztec goddess Coatlicue explore gender, spirituality, and icons.

 

About the Artist

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood received her BA and MA in Art from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. In 1987, Jimenez Underwood received an MFA in Art from San Jose University, San Jose, California, where she assumed the role of Professor and Director of the Fiber Area, a position she has held for more than two decades. Her work is featured in numerous permanent collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Chicago, IL; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; National Hispanic Center for The Arts, Albuquerque, NM; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Oakland Museum of California; Oakland, CA, among others.

 

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Works
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood HiWays to Heaven, 2022 Tapestry, frame loom. Linen, cotton, metallic threads 4 x 5 in work size 8.75 x 9.75 in frame size
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    HiWays to Heaven, 2022
    Tapestry, frame loom. Linen, cotton, metallic threads
    4 x 5 in work size
    8.75 x 9.75 in frame size
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American Dress. Virgen de Tepin (Chili), 1999 Stitched, silkscreened, painted, embroidered. Silk velvet, gold wire, barbed wire, textile paint 56 x 34 in 142.2 x 86.4 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    American Dress. Virgen de Tepin (Chili), 1999
    Stitched, silkscreened, painted, embroidered. Silk velvet, gold wire, barbed wire, textile paint
    56 x 34 in
    142.2 x 86.4 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Resistencia Yaqui, 1992 Loom woven in three panels. Painted, mixed media. Linen, cotton, synthetic threads. Paper, textile paint, leather barbed wire 72 x 46 in 182.9 x 116.8 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Resistencia Yaqui, 1992
    Loom woven in three panels. Painted, mixed media. Linen, cotton, synthetic threads. Paper, textile paint, leather barbed wire
    72 x 46 in
    182.9 x 116.8 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Sacred Jump, 1994 Woven pattern weaves and exposed warp. Silkscreened, embroidered. Silk threads. 81 x 36 in 205.7 x 91.4 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Sacred Jump, 1994
    Woven pattern weaves and exposed warp. Silkscreened, embroidered. Silk threads.
    81 x 36 in
    205.7 x 91.4 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Buffalo Shroud, Almost 1,000 Left, 1995
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Buffalo Shroud, Almost 1,000 Left, 1995
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Inside the Rain Rebozo, 2017 Wire, linen, and miscellaneous threads. Cotton fabric 48 x 20.5 in 121.9 x 52.1 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Inside the Rain Rebozo, 2017
    Wire, linen, and miscellaneous threads. Cotton fabric
    48 x 20.5 in
    121.9 x 52.1 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Mother Rain Rebozo, 2017 Woven, painted warp. Pattern and tapestry weaves. Linen, metallic, silk, and wool thread 67.25 x 15 in 170.8 x 38.1 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Mother Rain Rebozo, 2017
    Woven, painted warp. Pattern and tapestry weaves. Linen, metallic, silk, and wool thread
    67.25 x 15 in
    170.8 x 38.1 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Four Xewam, 2013 Tapestry and exposed warp. Silk, linen and cotton threads; leather barbed wire; cotton fabric 96 x 18.5 in 243.8 x 47 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Four Xewam, 2013
    Tapestry and exposed warp. Silk, linen and cotton threads; leather barbed wire; cotton fabric
    96 x 18.5 in
    243.8 x 47 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Quatlique-landia, 2017 Stitched, embroidered nylon, cotton and metallic threads 30 x 17.25 in 76.2 x 43.815 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Quatlique-landia, 2017
    Stitched, embroidered nylon, cotton and metallic threads
    30 x 17.25 in
    76.2 x 43.815 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Night Lights, 1991 Woven panel and veil, silkscreened. Textile paint, silk, cotton, and synthetic threads 53 x 36.5 in 134.6 x 92.7 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Night Lights, 1991
    Woven panel and veil, silkscreened. Textile paint, silk, cotton, and synthetic threads
    53 x 36.5 in
    134.6 x 92.7 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Virgen de los Nopales, 2005 Silkscreen on Coventry paper, stitched with cotton and synthetic threads, Self-Help Graphics, LA. 20 x 26 in 50.8 x 66.04 cm Edition of 72
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Virgen de los Nopales, 2005
    Silkscreen on Coventry paper, stitched with cotton and synthetic threads, Self-Help Graphics, LA.
    20 x 26 in
    50.8 x 66.04 cm
    Edition of 72
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Woody, My Dad and Me, 2018 Woven wire, linen, metallic and cotton thread 49 x 17 each (49 x 51 in) 124.5 x 43.2 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Woody, My Dad and Me, 2018
    Woven wire, linen, metallic and cotton thread
    49 x 17 each (49 x 51 in)
    124.5 x 43.2 cm
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Soaring: American Landscape, 2022 Loom woven, mixed media. Linen, wire, metallic threads, safety pins, glass beads 30 x 90.50 in 76.2 x 229.9 cm
    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
    Soaring: American Landscape, 2022
    Loom woven, mixed media. Linen, wire, metallic threads, safety pins, glass beads
    30 x 90.50 in
    76.2 x 229.9 cm
Installation Views
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0640 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0643 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0661 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0683 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0672 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0693 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0675 Photo By Daniel Terna
  • Ruiz Healy Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 20221123 O0A0717 Photo By Daniel Terna
Press
  • Artist Guadalupe Rosales rides rafa esparza as part of his Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser (2022), at Art Basel Miami Beach.

    The Year in Latinx Art, From Overdue Retrospectives to Promising New Museums

    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews, December 30, 2022
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  • Featured: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

    Discovering and Displaying the Innovative and Creative Culture of Silicon Valley

    Content, December 14, 2022
  • Patricia Ruiz-Healy poses with San Antonio-born artist Alejandro Diaz in her New York City gallery.

    Patricia Ruiz-Healy champions Latinx and South Texas artists in both San Antonio and Manhattan

    Bryan Rindfuss, San Antonio Current, November 4, 2022
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Publications
  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision

    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision

    Editors: Laura E. Pérez, Ann Marie Leimer 2022
    Paperback 416 pages
    Publisher: Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9781478018322
    Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.5 x 8.6 in
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  • Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-Landia

    Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-Landia

    Ruiz-Healy Art New York City Ruiz-Healy Art, 2022 Read more

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