Alejandro Macias
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Alejandro Macias ( B.1987, Brownsville, TX) Born along the U.S./ Mexico border, Alejandro Macias received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Brownsville in 2008, and a Master of Fine Arts in 2-D Studio Art from the University of Texas - Pan American in 2012.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including notable residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Chateau d’Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, CALA Alliance, and Uncool Artist in Brooklyn, NY (2024).
Recent group exhibitions include the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Mexic-Arte Museum, Amarillo Museum of Art, Carlsbad Museum of Art, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Centro de Artes in San Antonio. He has held solo exhibitions at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Presa House Gallery, Tucson Museum of Art, and was featured in the West Issue #156 of New American Paintings, juried by Lauren R. O’Connell, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Macias is the recipient of the Lehmann Emerging Artist award, which included a two person exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.
WORKS
Life, Liberty, Happiness, 2023
Acrylic, wood, metal signage on bisected panel
36 x 96 in
As a second-generation Mexican-American born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, the southernmost point of the Texas-Mexico border. This region, commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley, remains a unique place for its fusion of Mexican and American cultures. The result of his lived experience has mirrored his engagement with traditional rendering that challenges contemporary drawing and painting.
His artistic endeavors typically use the human form as a vessel to speak on socio-political concerns that are most important to him. Many of his subjects are either compositionally divided or include a mixture of representational, abstract, and multi-media approaches, all of which act as a metaphor for his own upbringing along the United States-Mexico border.
He now contextualize his life within the southern Arizona border, seeking to gain a better understanding of his ethnic background while framing ideas on place, identity, assimilation, acculturation, immigration, repression, and cultural misconceptions.
ALL THOSE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME LIKE TEARS IN RAIN, 2023
Acrylic, wood, metal signage on bisected panel
36 x 24in
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Nopal en la Frente (Border Agent II), 2023
Oil, acrylic, graphite on paper mounted to panel
36 x 24in
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Nopal en la Frente (Border Agent), 2023
Oil, acrylic, graphite on paper mounted to panel
36 x 24in
Nopal en la Frente (con Uniform), 2023
Oil, acrylic, graphite on paper mounted to panel
24 x 20in
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WHATS THE MOST YOU’VE EVER LOST ON A COIN TOSS?, 2023
Acrylic, wood, metal signage on bisected panel
36 x 24in
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