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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-landia

Past exhibition
November 17, 2022 - February 18, 2023 New York City
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Quatlique-landia, 2017
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Quatlique-landia, 2017
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Quatlique-landia, 2017

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

Quatlique-landia, 2017
Stitched, embroidered nylon, cotton and metallic threads
30 x 17.25 in
76.2 x 43.815 cm

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Soaring: American Landscape, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Soaring: American Landscape, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Soaring: American Landscape, 2022
From Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Flags series, this particular rendition features Coatlicue, the ancient Aztec earth goddess. Her face, constructed of two snakes, occupies the top section of the flag and...
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From Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Flags series, this particular rendition features Coatlicue, the ancient Aztec earth goddess. Her face, constructed of two snakes, occupies the top section of the flag and her skirt of snakes flows down past her belly, where the Mexican flag’s eagle and snake rest. On the bottom are a row of her claws. Like many of Jimenez Underwood’s flags, Quatlique-landia mixes elements of the Mexican and U.S. flags together. She explains, “I’m still trying to merge nations, I’m still trying to merge ideas from the past to the now, so we can go to the future with strength and power.”

"The triality of nations is further manifested in Quatlique-landia (2017), as the ghostly image of Aztec goddess Coatlicue seeps through this stitched and embroidered US flag, which was formed over a nylon Mexican flag." Emily Zaiden, "Between the Lines", Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Duke University Press, 2022
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Exhibitions

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-landia, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY, 2022
Consuelo J. Underwood: Thread Songs from the Borderlands, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK, 2018
Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA; curator: Emily Zaiden, 2017

Literature


Publications

Laura E. Perez and Ann Marie Leimer, eds., Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2022, between pages 160-161 (illustrated)

Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America, 2017, p. 19 (illustrated)
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