Join artist Beatriz Cortez as she unveils and discusses her work Tzolk'in in the center of the quad.
On view: Nov 12, 2018 - March 25, 2019
Inspired by an ancient 260-day agricultural calendar, Tzolk’in uses a hypocycloid motion to mark time through simultaneous movement that is both linear and cyclical.
Beatriz will be available for questions. Light refreshments will be served.
About Beatriz:
Beatriz Cortez is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar. She was born in El Salvador and has lived in the United States since 1989. Her work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities and different versions of modernity, memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration, and in relation to imagining possible futures. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hammer Museum and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, BANK Gallery in Shanghai, China, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in San José, Costa Rica, Museo MARTE in San Salvador, El Salvador, ET Quito in Quito, Ecuador, among others. She has received the 2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, the 2017 Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the 2016 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. She holds an M.F.A. in art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Arizona State University. She teaches in the Department of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge.
Beatriz will return to campus on February 7th to participate in the Oxy Arts Speaker Series.
