TULSA, OK.- Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective—a title that plays with the words “kaleidoscope” and “retrospective”—features dozens of colorful multi-media blown-glass objects and elaborately framed lenticular prints that span the spectacular, genre-defying careers of artists and brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre.

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico (1963 and 1960, respectively), Einar and Jamex de la Torre have for decades lived, worked, and collaborated on both sides of the San Diego/Tijuana border. The results of this sibling partnership are multi-dimensional and multi-sensory small and large-scale works that draw upon American, Indigenous, and Mexican traditions. This exhibition features twenty-nine blown-glass objects involving found objects encased in resin presented alongside eleven lenticular prints, all of which are layered with everything from pre-conquest Mesoamerican imagery to contemporary Pop spectacle, from religious iconography from consumer culture, from histories of craft and folk art to the future of technology.

Organized by The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of Riverside Art Museum (The Cheech) and Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino, Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective is reverent and playful toward Latinx and American experiences. With this exhibition, Einar and Jamex de la Torre offer a window into the rich creative world that exists when perspectives and traditions collide.

“The complexities of the immigrant experience and contradicting bicultural identities, as well as our current life and practice on both sides of the border, really propel our narrative and aesthetics…” –The de la Torre Brothers

Philbrook Museum of Art
Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective
February 7th, 2024 - April 28th, 2024