Book, Sculpture, Installation, Printmaking, Video
2016
Solo Exhibition at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2016
“When you learn your golf swing with a machete, you never look up.” - Juan Aquino
Recordings of an Immigrant is a nonfiction narrative book that inspired a multidisciplinary project. Partially funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation and Grand Central Art Center, the work includes the book, works on paper, sculpture and installations. It is a project inspired by the story of one man's journey escaping the genocide of Guatemalan civil war, only to end up in the courtrooms of Hawaii.
The boundaries of Juan's life and what they encompass reads more like an ancient epic of morality rather than a modern day story of immigration, poverty, violence and corruption. Yet this is a contemporary narrative amidst the U.S. immigration debate that also confronts taboo issues and even explores how we as people judge one another.
The project is supported through the artist-in-residence program of Grand Central Art Center, a unit of California State University, Fullerton’s College of the Arts, with funding support provided by an anonymous donor and from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Book Illustrations
Solar Plate, Drypoint etching & chine-colle on Somerset paper, polyurethane
20 x 30
2013 - 2015
with Printmaker Tania Arens
Finding the Drop House
Video
12:08 mins
2013
Collaboration with Randy Mills
