Curator and Artist Tour
Thursday, November 21 | 6 p.m.
Join ICA San Jose for our first Curator and Artist Tour of the current exhibition, Allegedly the Worst is Behind Us. Curator and Director of Public Programming, Zoë Latzer, will lead the tour, accompanied by artists Paola de la Calle, Shirin Towfiq, and Mik and May Gaspay. This event is free and open to the public. To register click here: RSVP
About Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines home, identity, borders, and nostalgia through the use of textiles, printmaking, and sculpture. In her practice, De la Calle combines photographs sourced from family albums and found images which she prints on textiles, as well as poetic texts, paintings made with coffee instead of paint, and found objects, to mine the aesthetics of nostalgia and examine the socio-political relationship between the United States and Colombia.
She is a graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program in 2019 and the lead artist for the Caravan for the Children Campaign as part of her residency with Galeria de la Raza in 2020. She’s a 2022-2023 KALA Fellowship Award recipient and previously an Artist-in-Residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY.
She’s been featured on Hyperallergic’s “A View from the Easel”, NPR, Refinery29, The Boston Art Review, Latina Magazine, and VOGUE among others.
About Mik and May Gaspay are a Filipino-American mother and son artist team who collaborate on
sculptural quilts. Working together, they combine their individual strengths and perspectives to create pieces that are at once familiar and fresh. May brings a deep knowledge of traditional quilting techniques, while Mik brings a conceptual and experimental approach to the medium.
Through their collaboration, they hope to create pieces that not only celebrate their familial history and Filipino culture, but also speak to the broader human experiences of family, heritage, and connection.
About Shirin Towfiq:
Shirin Towfiq is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. She focuses on everyday practices of belonging and visual culture, as produced by migrants, and reflecting on the traces of diaspora to investigate cultural memory, history, and temporality.
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