Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation

Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX, Photo Credit: Mark Menjivar

Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation Detail
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation Detail
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019

Performance by Laeree Lara

Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation Detail
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation Detail
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
detail
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
Views of North America
2019
painted wood, canvas and steel
Installation
After Thoughts
2019
Acrylic on canvas
72"x168"
After Thoughts
2019
Acrylic on canvas
72"x168"
Views of North America
2019
2-channel video
10:00
Teardowns
2019
2-channel video
Teardowns
2019
2-channel video
Teardowns
2019
2 channel video
5:59
Views of North America
2019

Performance by Laeree Lara

There are many themes present in my exhibition ‘Teardowns’.  They are personal, political, and integrally connected to my experiences. The show was an amazing collaborative endeavor that included the voices and performances of artists throughout the community. The images in the show depict multiple ideas, including the nature of impermanence, the inherent instability of all things, the creative power of destruction, the place of women and women’s bodies in the history of western art, the larger suppression of women’s voices and stories, my own story as a woman, mother, and breast cancer survivor, and the current state of politics in this country.  

 

The imagery in the exhibition is specific and intensively researched. It includes French scenic wallpaper from the 1830’s depicting the American revolution, portraits of important women scientists whose research was coopted or ignored such as Lise Meitner and Esther Letterberg, portraits of artists and political figures, images that reference American genre painting, and many depictions of my own body.