Xicanx show at Blue Star embraces complexity of Mexican American experience

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'Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers' is a museum-scale exhibition at the Contemporary at Blue Star, featuring prominent San Antonio artists.

Instead, the work of each of the 30 artists in the show lends insight into the personal and collective experience of identity — that how a person is perceived by others can affect how they perceive themselves.

As the exhibition’s original curators, Greta De León and Jill Baird, note in their curatorial statement, “Being Chicano or Xicanx is an identity all of the artists in this exhibition choose. It is more than being just Mexican American; it is accepting the responsibility to fight for their community, their culture and their civil rights.”

Ramirez questions the costs of consumerism by photographing a semi-transparent trash bag filled with cast-off newspaper advertisements and political flyers inRendón’s 1986 image of his Tía Lupe with her Virgen de Guadalupe-emblazoned blanket captures the closeness with which so many Mexican Americans hold that symbol of cultural identity, and César Martinez’s 2008 memory portraitof 2007, a 14-foot-long diptych painting of the Rio Grande border as seen from Earth’s orbit, and...

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