Cheyenne Amaya, Ella Brenzel, Magaly Cantu, Cecilia Sierra, Bygoe Zubiate
As we step into 2025, life in the United States feels precarious. Climate disasters escalate, social progress faces setbacks, and nostalgia permeates our digital spaces, pulling us toward an idealized past rather than a hopeful future. This exhibition reflects on that shift—how memory, media, and culture shape our collective perception of time, and what it means to contemplate what came before in a moment when looking ahead feels so perilous.
In this exhibition, the six young, emerging artists, Cheyenne Amaya, Cecilia Sierra, Bygoe Zubiae, Magaly Cantu, and Ella Brenzel are working across an array of mediums, favoring a material-based approach to their practice. Many of the exhibiting artists are exploring their own memories through form, material, or concept, often intermingling varied approaches. Ella Brenzel attempts to recapture hazy memories of her childhood through paintings on fabric, while Cecilia Sierra’s installation-based works are a method of capturing her own memories in addition to those of her maternal line. In contrast, artist Cheyenne Amaya creates ethereal creatures made of ceramic to capture and hold onto the fleeting highs and lows of her bipolar disorder.
Through these personal explorations of memory and time, the featured artists demonstrate that these investigates are a creative act, one that can transform individual experiences into shared understanding and help us find our bearings in an increasingly destabilized world.
Photos by Jorge Villarreal
Casie Lomeli 