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THE SACRED JUMP
1994
83" x 38"
woven; silkscreened. silk
threads, gold wire
$3000
THE SACRED JUMP, detail
NO DROWNING ALLOWED
1994
51" x 50"
woven; embroidered. Silk cloth,
gold wire, brass wire.
$2000
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Education
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1987
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MFA, Art, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
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1985
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MA, Art, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
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1981
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BA, Art, Distinguished in Major, San Diego State University, CA
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1979
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Associate of Arts, Religious Studies, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
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Professional Recognition
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1989-1995
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Assistant Professor of Art, School of Art and Design, SJSU, CA
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Frequent National and International Lecturer and Curator
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Subject of Frequent National and International Articles
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Selected Solot Exhibitions
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1997
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"Tutu'li Nassua" (Beautiful Struggle), University Art Gallery California State University at
Chico, Chico, CA
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1996
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"resisTencia: unCertain hiStories" MACLA San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA
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1995
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"Fronteras De Anahuac" Centro Cultural de Joan Miro, Madrid, Spain
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1994
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"Consuelo Jimenez Underwood" Centrum, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon
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1993
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"Fuerzas De La Tierra" Museo de el Carmen, San Angel, Mexico D.F.
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1992
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"California Artists-Consuelo Jimenez Underwood", triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA "Forces of
Gravity," Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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1991
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"Cultural Contradictions," Bade Museum, Berkeley, CA
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Collections and Awards
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1996
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"Virgen de Los Caminos", Permanent Collection, The Smithsonian Institution, The Renwick
Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
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1995
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"Burial Shrouds: Heroes," Permanent Collection, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
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1993
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Nominee, 1993 Biennial Competition of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
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ARTIST STATEMENT
With beauty, grace, and traditional form, my work expresses the quiet rage that has
permeated indigenous peoples of the Americas for over five hundred years.
Material, process and content are derived from historical, societal, and personal
reference.
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