CHIMERA
Sept. 2nd 7:00-10:00 PM
DJ Ol’ Moanin’
Closing October 1st.
Tugboat Gallery Proudly Presents “Chimera” featuring and opening on First Friday September 2nd from 7:00-10:00 with DJ ol moanin – closing on October 1st. Sarah Jentsch , and Juan José Castaño-Márquez.
Using embroidery, watercolor, graphite and religious pendants “Chimera” has an otherworldly emotional intensity through exploring potent imagery such as – flies, dogs, dead deer and a beaded heart. Both artists are guided by what it feels like to walk through life as “Other”.
Juan José Castaño-Márquez
Juan José Castaño-Márquez is a Colombian-born queer artist, photographer, educator, and storyteller currently living in occupied Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Pâri [Pawnee], and Jiwere lands, now also called Lincoln, Nebraska. Juan’s work explores contemporary issues on representation and personal identity through historiography and archivization. Some of his projects directly engage with ideas of representation of “the other”–this other being both Latinx and queer; historical erasure; and situations of victimization in his country of birth.
Sarah Jentsch
Sarah Jentsch is an American artist who primarily creates paintings and drawings. Her work uses elements of fantasy and myth to explore the expectations and experiences of women in society. In Chimera, a cast of dogs, deer, and tears unite to form an escapist world where the Self becomes Other and emotion becomes reality
