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Threading Glass

Current exhibition
April 9 - May 31, 2025 San Antonio
Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Virgen Nopalera, 2023
Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Virgen Nopalera, 2023

Einar and Jamex de la Torre

Virgen Nopalera, 2023
Blown glass and mixed media
20 x 11 x 9 in
50.8 x 27.9 x 22.9 cm
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Virgen Nopalera, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Virgen Nopalera, 2023
The Virgen Nopalera alludes to Chicano art iconography, including the Virgen de Guadalupe’s mandorla, and builds off of the subtle religious symbolism. Adorned with cactus flowers and prickly thorns, plus...
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The Virgen Nopalera alludes to Chicano art iconography, including the Virgen de Guadalupe’s mandorla, and builds off of the subtle religious symbolism. Adorned with cactus flowers and prickly thorns, plus sitting on resin-encased baby dolls, the brothers sculpt a display of a blossoming cactus to segue into conversations regarding religion and identity. Patricia Escárcega says the following about their expansive visual lexicon in her New York Times article, “De la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of Maximalism.” “Pre-Columbian deities, Mexican lucha libre wrestlers, Olmec heads, Slavic water spirits — the de la Torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. The brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and ‘good taste.”
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Exhibitions

Threading Glass: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2025
Upward Mobility, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; curators: René Paul Barilleaux, and Lauren Thompson, 2024
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