Outburst Project: Karla Ekatherine Canseco, Maria Maea, Clara Nieblas, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya

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Where	Main Museum
When	August 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023

Where

When

August 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023

Where	Main Museum
When	August 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023

Where

When

August 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023

Outburst Projects are small-format exhibitions that artists create following a month-long artist-residency at the Palm Springs Art Museum. The program is designed to support creative exploration, allowing artists to experiment with new bodies of work.

When the museum asked Outburst artist Gabriela Ruiz if she would like to select an artist to exhibit alongside her in the Summer 2022 Outburst program, she invited not one, but four of her fellow artists.

Ruiz explains: “We build a home and sense of safety through connections we find in our communities. I wanted to highlight this sense of community.”

Karla Ekatherine Canseco creates sculptures, videos, and performances that embrace the choreographies of her family’s labor and occupations, exploring her subjective history through material poetics and personal mythologies.

Maria Maea makes art connected to her Samoan and Mexican heritage, often using weaving as a way of embodying ancestral knowledge and recalling lost traditions.

Clara Nieblas, a figurative painter and art educator from the eastern Coachella Valley, creates work stemming from her personal and familial experience and expressing her individual voice in the face of a history of social injustice.

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya’s sculptures evoke monstrous creatures associated with mutant Nahuales, shapeshifting figures from Mesoamerican folk tradition.

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