2011 – Site Specific Works

These works were created this past December during a family visit back home in El Paso, TX.

“Grafitero del Desierto” – (images 1-4) Materials – rocks and spray can on dirt.

“Irrigation/flat line” – (images 5-8) Materials – red spray-paint on dirt.

“Destination” –(images 9-12) Materials – discarded objects.

“University” – (images 13-16) This work was created with the assistance of passerby’s. Materials – vehicle and wooded crates.

2011- Cabeza de Barro / Clay forms by Nicole Marroquin & Alfonso “Piloto” Nieves

Curated by Gabriel Villa
January 21 – June 1, 2011 at the National Museum of Mexican Art

This exhibition, by two Chicago-based artists, explored a spectrum of visual ideas through original and provocative works. The pieces transform perceptions and ideas of human anatomy, identity, and social/cultural structures through depictions of natural and man-made forms. Jointly their works transform the space to depict personal and figurative forms, which reveal psychological elements that position portraiture beyond the traditional.

2010 – Corazon Grafico/Corazon Urbano: Mix media works at Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL

This exhibit featured works made from 2007-2010.

2008 – Raskauche: Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Gabriel Villa
“Black Hope: Between Poverty & Capitalism”
Mixed media on paper with frames (made of actual pennies)
2008

Razkuachismo is the marriage and contradictive fusion of high and low art inspired by urban and small town aesthetics. Razkauche (group exhibition) was curated by by Marcos Raya and was supported in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

2009 – Bridgeport Mural

“Spirituality and Surveillance” Outdoor mural 40 x 10 ft. Commissioned by Immodest Proposals
Version 2009, Chicago, IL. Destroyed by Graffiti blasters by orders of 11th ward Alderman Balcer in the Community of Bridgeport.

The mural was photographed the previous evening before it was destroyed. I had just bought a really nice Nikon a few days prior to the whitewash of the mural. I would have been screwed without these photographs.

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