SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced the opening of our Fall 2024 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions featuring artists Celia Eberle (Ennis, Texas), Consuelo Jimenez Underwood (Gualala, California), and Julianny Ariza Vólquez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). These artists were selected by Guest Curator, Beverly Adams. Adams is The Museum of Modern Art’s Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art.

The three artists have been living at Artpace since July 22, creating new work that will be presented at a public opening reception on Thursday, September 12, from 6–9PM. At 6:30PM, the artists will discuss their time at Artpace and their installations in conversation with guest curator Beverly Adams.

Celia Eberle’s exhibition, She, is a reimagining of the story of Eve that marries contemporary themes of artificial intelligence with biblical allegory. Through a combination of beauty, horror, and humor, the installation dissects female iconography and mankind’s pursuit of modern technology.

Throughout the exhibition, Eberle mines the topic of contemporary culture and its obsession with technology, suggesting that artificial intelligence advancements fold into historical and mythological folklore. Eberle suggests that humans, in defiance of universal truths, continue to seek a jobless future for women as further punishment for choosing forbidden fruit, desire, and a taste for life beyond the shadow of Adam.

Celia Eberle, a Piney Woods native of East Texas, earned her BFA with Honors from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1974. Her professional career began with the 1986 exhibition "Women of the Big State," juried by Lisa Phillips. Eberle was active at the 500X Gallery in Dallas from 1987 to 1992 and has since held over twenty solo exhibitions. Her accolades include the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and an M-AAA/NEA Fellowship. Recent notable shows include "Waiting for Robot" at the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2022 and Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum in 2017. Her work is in collections at the Dallas Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, and other institutions. Eberle’s art explores the constancy of human experience amid technological and societal change.

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fall 2024 Artpace exhibition, UNDOCUMENTED TALES OF THE FUTURE: NOW, explores humanity’s relentless pursuit of control and the cosmic reverberations of our actions. Through multi-media, Underwood engages with border politics and the divine balance of beauty birthed from destruction. 

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, born in Sacramento, California, to a Chicana mother and a Huichol Indian father, draws on her diverse heritage to shape her artistic vision. Her work, ranging from intricate tapestries to large-scale fiber and mixed media installations, explores themes of natural beauty and ecological issues along the US/Mexico border. With over thirty years of national and international exhibitions and lectures, her art is housed in major collections, including the Smithsonian, Museum of Art & Design, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2022, she received the Latinx Artist Fellowship, and her contributions to feminist textile art are the focus of the book Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving Vision. 

Julianny Ariza Vólquez’s Artpace Fall 2024 exhibition, AMAS DE LECHE, offers a profound exploration of female labor, centering on the historical and cultural legacy of wet nurses. This multidisciplinary exhibition employs painting, video art, and sculpture to illuminate the intricate roles of women in nurturing humanity, reflecting both the historical exploitation and the enduring resilience of women of color. 

Julianny Ariza Vólquez, a Dominican visual artist born in 1987, explores themes of exclusion in Dominican material memory through her sculptures, installations, and paintings. Her recent projects include Imaginaciones del mito, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, and presentations at Black Barcelona Festival in Spain. She has participated in art residencies in Spain, the U.S., Norway, Germany, and has been recognized with awards from the Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest and the National Biennial of Visual Arts. Ariza is also a co-creator of the Dominican art publication Onto. Her work is featured in collections at major institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo and has been exhibited internationally in fairs and galleries across the U.S., Spain, and Germany.