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Current Work
I am at work on an ongoing painting series called "Diosas" and "Arboles de La Vida," as well as ongoing installation work.
Through trial and error, glitter has become a definitive element in my work. Because my work centers on interpretation and identity, specifically the re/construction of complex, buried, hidden iconography, glitter allows the images to be translatable to others. Glitter is recognizable and is also able to restore the grandeur of an almost annihilated culture, while retaining a hint of irony and my genetic nihilism.
In effect, I use glitter as an extension and continuation of the mesoamerican sense of rococo, where pigment is pushed to such visual extremes--an aesthetic which has not easily been displaced by time. Glitter also fulfills my needs for a medium to address the concepts of reflection and multiplicity. The philosophers of the Mexica were thought to be able to place mirrors in front of an individual in order to reflect their true identity.
Glitter conceptually reflects the viewer. The imagery is physically composed of thousands of individual pieces, but only in unity are these images formed, and only in unity are a culture’s symbols narrated and preserved by individuals. Glitter also echoes the small metallic flecks rubbed onto the bodies of Mexica priests used in ritual. |
Short Bio
Statement by Tlisza Juarique
My artwork stems from a multi-lingual and multi-visual foundation. Since youth I have experienced living in different worlds, where there exists more than one finite definition of possibility. Who I am invariably influences what and how I create. My perspective is founded in my Native (Yaqui/Mexica) barrio roots, family history, and a western (Ivy League) education.
Multiplicity is integral to shaping and structuring my/the world/s. Because of my descent from matriarchal systems, my art has always maintained a feminist dialogue. My general concerns turn towards the fractalization involved in understanding light and life, disconnected yet causally connected. Understanding reality/ experience through the prevalent platonic shadows has led me to new mediums and historic revelations.
Bio
Tlisza Jaurique is a Mexica/Yaqui/Basque/Xicana multi-media artist born in Phoenix, AZ. She is a painter, print-maker, sculptor, and muralist. She works in videos and film in design, performance, and production.
Her exhibitions include Ned Hatathali Museum, Painted Bride Arts Center Philadelphia, Phoenix City Hall, the Museo Chicano, Nelson Fine Arts Museum, Mission Cultural Arts Center San Francisco, PAPER Magazine Exhibition SoHo, the Hispanic Research Center, the Port of San Diego, Guadalupe Arts Center San Antonio, ASU Museum of Anthropology, Phoenix Civic Plaza, Grady Gammage Auditorium, ASU Hayden Library, Phoenix Public Library, and the Phoenix Arts Center. Her art is part of national and international collections. She has completed several public mural commissions.
Her Bachelor's degree is in Philosophy with minors in Studio Art and Hispanic Literature from Vassar College. Her Masters is in Art Education and she continued her Doctoral Studies in Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University. She speaks fluent Spanish and has some knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. She has lived in Manhattan, Berlin, and Quito, Ecuador. Her travels include Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North, South, and Central America.
Juarique designs and instructs many classes in art, philosophy, and religion. She consults, researches, and creates curriculums in these subjects as well. Clients for her curriculums include the J. P. Getty Education Institute, ATLATL Native American Arts Organization, the Hispanic Research Center at ASU, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Museo Chicano, the Nelson Fine Arts Museum, the Bead Museum, the Boys and Girls Club, Phoenix Parks and Recreation, along with many elementary and secondary schools.
She lectures in philosophy, art history, and world/native religions at all levels. She has lectured at the David Rockefeller Center for Latino Studies at Harvard University, the Phoenix Art Museum, and National/International conferences on peacemaking and art education at the Phoenix Civic Plaza and ASU.
She has also been part of many panels. These include the Science and Native Wisdom conference and the Lincoln Center Arts and Ethics conference.
She recently received a prestigious appointment as a Community Scholar at the National Museum of Natural History in Native Studies at the Smithsonian Institute. Other awards include first place for Latino Art presented by the Phoenix Arts Center, PAPER Magazine and Pernod Fourth Annual Awards Exhibit NYC, Alwun House Foundation Honorable Mention, Dean's Award of Excellence, Honor Societies, Dean's List, Academic Excellence.
Her work can be found in Contemporary Chicana/o Art, by the Bilingual Press and Altars and Shrines. Her art has been reviewed and has received press from the Journal of the National Art Education Association, PAPER Magazine NYC, Shade Art Magazine, AZ Republic, La Voz, El Sol, Prensa Hispana, Tucson Citizen, New Times, the Rep, Get Out, Phoenix Downtown, Java Magazine, State Press, Univision, Telemundo, local ABC, NBC, Fox, and "Nuestra Causa" Programs. Her work can be found throughout the internet.
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Honors
Southwest Borders Initiative Visiting Scholar and Artist Residency at ASU, Visiting Scholar Appointment @ the Smithsonian/Native American Program, lecture @ Harvard University, Consultant JP Getty Arts Education, PAPER Magazine & Pernod Awards Exhibit |
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Artist Location
Tempe, AZ
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Type of artist
Painter/Sculptor, Designer(graphic), Arts Educator, Writer
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General Themes
Death & Dying, Religion/Spirituality, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Art Forms/Art Criticism, Feminism/Gender Issues |
Keywords
southwest, education, mural, curriculum, instruction, native, latina, hispanic, feminist, mosaic |
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