Salvador Andrade Arévalo
Exhibition Opening
Saturday Sept 13, 12PM - 4PM
Inauguración de la exposición
Sábado 13 de septiembre, 12PM - 4PM
With the exhibition Ida y vuelta (round trip), Salvador Andrade Arévalo transforms the Pueblo Unido Gallery with a site-specific installation. At the center of the exhibition is Tianguis (Market), a massive itinerant sculpture - the term Andrade uses to describe his net-like compositions made from plastic produce meshes and food packaging stitched together by hand. Tianguis engulfs the gallery, transforming the space with color, texture, and light. Embedded inside the sculpture is a small assortment of Chucherías (Tchotchkes), mixed-media sculptures comprised of found plastic and metal alongside Almohadilla (Pincushion), an oil painting on canvas. These works emerged from year-long collaborations across Centro Romero’s programs, beginning with the collective effort –led by family and staff– to gather costales and various food packaging materials. As a fourth-generation migrant, as well as a descendent of a family that has long held agrarian roots in rural Jalisco, Andrade uses the detritus of our daily consumption as physical evidence of the deep economic, cultural, and familial ties that bind the United States to Mexico.
Born in Jalisco, México and raised in Chicago, Salvador Andrade Arévalo considers himself to be a printmaker that works in the expanded field of painting. He received both a BA and MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University, and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge in Latin American Studies. Recently, he has held solo exhibitions at Chicago Artists Coalition and the University Club of Chicago, and has received the support of Fulbright (Mexico), SOMA Summer, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Brown University.
Publicly, his work can be found with projects for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, and in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art and Willis Tower.