"Border Blasters, Desintegrador de Fronteras," is an interactive exhibition exploring the impact of Tijuana and San Diego radio, music and television on our cross-border culture. The exhibition presents artworks utilizing sound and visuals to transcend the physical border, including installations by Baja and San Diego based artists as well as oral histories by local musician and radio personalities.

Curated by Diana Benavidez, Bill Perrine, and Itza Vilaboy

L Gallery

August 31 - December 15, 2023

Also on view at the Centro Cultural de las Fronteras at Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

October 21 - December 15, 2023

Opening reception at UACJ Centro Cultural de las Fronteras with artists Jess Tolbert and Cassandra Adame

Saturday, October 21 | 12pm

FOR DIRECTIONS: https://www.uacj.mx/CCF/

La Frontera explores the U.S.–Mexico border and what it represents as a physical reality, geopolitical construction, and condition of being. Working in contemporary jewelry, the artists included present stories of geography, identity, and desire, creating profound relationships between concept and the implied wearer.

First mounted in 2013, the original La Frontera exhibition considered the border as the physical place where complex relationships between Mexico and the U.S. are most visible. Re-curated on its tenth anniversary, La Frontera brings together many artists from its first iteration with artists from the borderlands, deepening the ways in which the exhibition includes the lived experiences of transfronterizxs.

One of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form.

The exhibition Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration is one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form. This groundbreaking show includes more than 80 works made by Latinx artists and makers from across the U.S. and explores how piñatas are designed, constructed and executed, along with the role they play in modern material culture and in artistic practices. Work by traditional piñateros will be featured alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata to form a burgeoning, expressive media. Made with humor, biting wit and skilled craftsmanship, this is a vital and constantly evolving field for artmaking.

This exhibition is guest curated by Emily Zaiden, Curator at Craft in America Center, and is a reimagining of the exhibition featured at Craft in America in 2021.

August 25, 2022 - February 11, 2023

Craft in America Center - Los Angeles, CA

Opening Reception Friday Sept. 20 5:30 - 9:00 PM

In this solo exhibition, Diana Benavidez introduces the piñata as a method for storytelling, expression, and reflection. Benavidez shares her personal narratives by manipulating physically and conceptually the piñata through the incorporation materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas. Through the use of color, scale, and text, this popular Mexican art form is transformed into a contemporary art practice that explores mental states and emotions.

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Anthropocene: Humans and Nature exhibition explores the era of dominant human effect on the Southern California and Tijuana landscape. Art installations at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center (BMCC) will be on view from Sept. 6 - 28th, 2019. The public reception is on Friday, Sept. 6th, 5:30 - 8:30 PM. The reception will host exhibiting artists as well as anthropogenic soundings by regional composers including Jeremy Field and Isaac Crow. Poet Gerda Govine will perform at 6:30 PM.

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