KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is pleased to announce X MARKS THE SPOT: in partnership with Barranguet Arts in Easton, Connecticut. Highlighting artists Daniel Barragán, Vicky Barranguet, Koyoltzintli, Agustina Markez, and Edward Salas, this exhibition studies the dynamic exchange between Barranguet’s monumental abstractions and the other artists’ sculptural works. Barranguet juxtaposes color to create paintings that comfort and ground the viewer, while Barragan, Koyoltzintli, Markez, and Salas use recognizable objects, like vases, trucks, and power cords, to produce a similar effect to aid one in healing and paving way toward clarity around the ongoing imperialism. There’s a shared vibrancy of color and playfulness in messaging. Part of his Artifact series of work, Daniel Barragán hand makes ceramic jugs that are ornamented by band stickers, bumper stickers and 70’s and 80’s ephemera. The ceramic jugs are made in a traditional way on the pottery wheel. The forms of the jugs are imitations of the regional pottery of the American Southwest - the region of his birth. “This project began after reading a horrific story about Border Patrol agents destroying lifesaving water stations that are placed in the Chihuahua desert as refuge for migrants. I wanted to counter this action by creating my own water stations which like myself are multicultural in nature. These jugs are meant to be aggressive jugs of protest, so I chose to adorn them with band stickers that remind me of the Northern Mexican bootleg punk scene.”
