No Room for Purity: Excess and Collision in the de la Torre Brothers' Practicce

"Since the 1980s, Einar and Jamex de la Torre have built a body of work that refuses to resolve its own contradictions. Glass merges with resin, Aztec cosmologies collide with Catholic iconography, and border culture sits alongside pop-culture debris—all without settling into a single visual identity or a fixed reading of Chicano or Mexican American art. Two exhibitions currently on view in the United States make that refusal newly visible: Collidoscope, a thirty-year retrospective at the Wichita Art Museum, and Psychopomp, a new body of work at Ruiz-Healy Art in New York." - Alejandra Villasmil