Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

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

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Education
1987 MFA, Art, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1985 MA, Art, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1981 BA, Art, Distinguished in Major, San Diego State University, CA
1979 Associate of Arts, Religious Studies, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

Professional Recognition
1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Art, School of Art and Design, SJSU, CA
  Frequent National and International Lecturer and Curator
  Subject of Frequent National and International Articles

Selected Solot Exhibitions
1997 "Tutu'li Nassua" (Beautiful Struggle), University Art Gallery California State University at Chico, Chico, CA
1996 "resisTencia: unCertain hiStories" MACLA San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA
1995 "Fronteras De Anahuac" Centro Cultural de Joan Miro, Madrid, Spain
1994 "Consuelo Jimenez Underwood" Centrum, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon
1993 "Fuerzas De La Tierra" Museo de el Carmen, San Angel, Mexico D.F.
1992 "California Artists-Consuelo Jimenez Underwood", triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA "Forces of Gravity," Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
1991 "Cultural Contradictions," Bade Museum, Berkeley, CA

Collections and Awards
1996 "Virgen de Los Caminos", Permanent Collection, The Smithsonian Institution, The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1995 "Burial Shrouds: Heroes," Permanent Collection, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1993 Nominee, 1993 Biennial Competition of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY

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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