In partnership with the UIC Disability Cultural Center.
This virtual tour of My Mother Mountain takes you through Carolyn Castaño’s debut solo exhibition in Chicago, paying close attention to the materials she employs (gold foil, appliqués, watercolors) to address the disappearing glaciers in the Colombian Andes. Multidisciplinary artist William Estrada joins Castaño in a discussion on the conceptual and formal underpinnings informing the exhibition. Our staff will offer detailed verbal descriptions of each piece discussed during the tour. A recording of the tour will be available later for those unable to attend the livestream.
https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/s6zVULj2S3Wyj9MlOMWaMw#/registration
ACCESS INFORMATION: This program is free and open to the public. CART (live captions) and ASL will be available on Zoom. We’ll have a camera connecting our virtual audience to the gallery. Descriptions of objects will be integrated into the presentation. For questions and access accommodations, email gallery400engagement@gmail.com.
ABOUT:
Carolyn Castaño is a Los Angeles–based artist whose eco-feminist practice spans painting, installation, video, and artist books. Her work explores landscape, migration, and female and family identities through a blend of drawing, photography, and performance with patterns drawn from textiles, design, and geometric abstraction. Castaño is the recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the California Community Foundation and the City of Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Craft Contemporary and the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at LACMA and the 56th Venice Biennale. Castaño is a Professor of Drawing and Painting at Long Beach City College and holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA.
William Estrada is an arts educator and multidisciplinary artist. His art and teaching are a collaborative discourse that critically re-examines public and private spaces with people to engage in radical imagination. He has presented in various panels regarding community programming, arts integration, and social justice curricula. He is currently a Visual Arts Teacher at Telpochcalli Elementary and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Art History at UIC. His current research is focused on developing community-based, culturally relevant projects that center power structures of race, economy, and cultural access in contested spaces.
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