User:TonioGT/Celeste De Luna

[Celeste De Luna] (1974–Present) is a visual artist/printmaker known for her large-scale woodcut prints and fabric installation, skills in which were self-taught. She makes use of a home studio known as ‘Metzli Press’, and teaches Mexican-American Studies for Northwest Vista College in San Antonio. De Luna is also the co-founder of 2017 Art Place America recipients ‘Las Imaginistas’ art collective and a 2020 Vermont Studio Center Resident Artist. She has had works showcased nationally in New York and Chicago, as well as Internationally in Morelia, Michoacan.

Biography

Celeste De Luna was born in Illinois in 1974, but has spent most of her life in the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She identifies as Chicana feminist and upholds that perspective in her works. Being located in South Texas, she puts a lot of emphasis on the complexities of living in and along the ‘borderlands’ in her work.

Art  (or Notable Works or Selected Works. Also Exhibitions, Projects, Collections)


 * “Our Lady of the Checkpoint” (2019)

Black and White Woodcut and vinyl on archival paper feature La Virgen| Xilografía y vinilo sobre papel de archivo

Artist statement: “…as border communities have always known and lived, we are in a space that always already defies cultural and ideological binaries”


 * “Woman Fence” (2016)

Woodcut prints, thrifted patches on fabric, sewing | Impresiones xilográficas, parches sobre tela cosida

Artist statement: “Woman Fence was inspired by Louise Bourgeois’s Femme Maison series where I’m linking the border as part the identity of women and children that live in that place. It is home. My work documents individual and collective experiences in my physical/spiritual/psychic environment. I explore the complexity of relationships of borderland peoples and their landscape.”


 * “Necrocitizen” (2019)

Blanket, Woodcut, Vinyl, Ribbon, and Relief Print on thrifted fabric.

Shades and red of a skull with brain divided and labelled with words of affirmation. Numerous eyeballs making up the background.

References


 * 1) Díaz-Barriga Miguel, and Margaret E. Dorsey. Fencing in Democracy: Necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico Border Wall. Duke University Press, 2020.

Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-0693-0 / Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-0605-3 )

2. “Celeste De Luna.” Xicanx Art, https://xicanxart.com/artists/celeste-de-luna/.

3.“Celeste De Luna.” Santa Fe Art Institute, 1 Dec. 2021, https://sfai.org/alumni/celeste-de-luna/.

Further Links:

Artists Website: https://celestedeluna.com