NADA New York 2022

Through a combination of hand-sewn textiles and paints, Maria A. Guzmán Capron joins together a raucous array of patterns and striking colors to fashion bodily forms. Capron’s shaped tapestries are rooted in her background as an immigrant. Born in Milan to Colombian and Peruvian parents, and later relocating to Texas as a teenager, Capron explores how clothing is used as a marker of class, gender, and identity. Merging figuration with abstraction, these works explore cultural hybridity, pride, and the competing desires to assimilate and be seen.

Maria A. Guzmán Capron (b. 1981, lives and works in Oakland, CA) was born in Italy to Columbian and Peruvian parents. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Solo exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX; Premier Junior, San Francisco, CA; Roll Up Project, Oakland, CA; and Guerrero Gallery San Francisco, CA. Select group exhibitions include Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA; CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; and Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. Her works have been written about in Hyperallergic, Variable West, Bomb Magazine, and Art in America. The artist has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum of the University of Houston in 2022.