Artist Paloma Vianey grew up in Ciudad Juárez, just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, and her paintings, etchings, and sculptures inhabit her daily experience of crossing this political division. Her exhibition in the Buchanan Partners Art Gallery, Juárez Lindo y Querido (2/20 through 4/7), includes vividly colorful paintings of her home city, expressing the location’s vulnerability and resiliency.
“My work educates the public about a city that is almost two thousand miles away from here,” Vianey said in an interview with The Phillips Collection, where she is a 2023 CARD Fellow. “Through the paintbrush, I am telling a different narrative than the one portrayed by the media. Additionally, I am painting vernacular places that would normally not be represented in the sanctity of an oil painting—places that have witnessed all aspects of Mexican life.”
Also, visit our current exhibition in the Buchanan Partners Art Gallery: the 12th Annual Prince William County Public Schools Student Exhibition (1/9–2/17) and see what local budding young artists are creating.