New Mexico State University Art Museum
The New Mexico State University Art Museum will kick off its Spring 2021 season with three new exhibits, “Sorry for the Mess,” “Pasos Ajenos,” and “Saint Joseph & The Laborers.”
The three exhibitions will open to the public starting Jan. 21 through a timed ticket reservation system, allowing up to ten people to enter in 30-minute blocks.
“Sorry for the Mess (SFTM),” featuring work by artists Justin Favela and Ramiro Gomez, originated at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It focuses on labor, childhood memories and life as first-generation Americans in the Southwest.
Favela, a Las Vegas native and Guatemalan Mexican American, works primarily in large-scale installations that use piñata-cut tissue paper sculptures to elevate impactful childhood objects and memories amplifying them for an audience who might find similar value in them. Gomez was born in San Bernardino, Calif. to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents who are now U.S. citizens. Gomez’s work explores the complexities of labor, creating space for gardeners, nannies, custodians and many other workers who are ever present but often remain silenced in narratives of others.
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