The Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC presents Zone of Contention. The U.S./Mexico Border an exhibition on view June 16, 2012 – September 2, 2012.
Susan Harbage Page, “Untitled (wallet and contents, Brownsville, TX,
2008) from The U.S./Mexico Border Project”, 2007-2011, archival digital
print, 38 x 38 in. Courtesy of the artist and Flanders Gallery, Raleigh,
NC
This exhibition focuses on artists’ investigations of issues related to the U.S./Mexico border, a geographic area of much debate and contention. Through photography, sculpture, works on paper, video, and new media, subjects such as migrant labor, immigration law, national sovereignty, the Dream Act, and border control will be examined in terms of their current social and ideological impact.
The exhibition features new and recent works by artists from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, including Andrea Bowers (Los Angeles, CA), Blane de St. Croix (New York, NY), Todd Drake (Greensboro, NC), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Nicolas Lampert & Dan S. Wang (Milwaukee, WI/Chicago, IL), Pedro Lasch (Durham, NC), Susan Harbage Page (Chapel Hill, NC), Pedro Reyes (Mexico City, Mexico), David Taylor (Las Cruces, NM), and Perry Vasquez/Victor Payan (San Diego, CA).
Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border is organized by Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, and will be accompanied by a bilingual brochure. – www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu