When the Dogs Stop Barking
On view through December 31, 2022
516 ARTS
Albuquerque, New Mexico
516arts.org
This exhibition, Rachelle B. Pablo’s (Diné) first exhibition as Curator at 516 ARTS, displays the work of five artists whose compassionate and personal looks at the humanitarian crisis extend 3,154 kilometer/1,954 miles from the Gulf of Mexico’s shores to the Pacific Ocean coastlines. The landscapes hold memories of ‘survivance’ where political divisiveness and humanitarian turmoil converge. The US Border Patrol and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents constantly monitor this militarized zone, imprisoning countless asylum seekers in internment camps. It is a forbidding landscape full of harsh obstacles and violent activity—many who attempt the grueling journey to cross the border fail and lose their lives.
[Image: Haley Greenfeather English (Red Lake/Turtle Mountain-Ojibwe/Irish), (Albuquerque, New Mexico), NM 2 TRU (in progress), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 5 x 12 feet]
