ICA North Has Two Exhibitions Opening in March!

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Join us for open hours on Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm, starting March 4, 2023. ICA North is free to the public, so bring your family, friends, children and pets.
 
We are excited to announce ?????????????? ????????í??????: ???????????????????? ?????????????????? the artist’s homage to the nation’s agriculture workers.

Martinez's first solo exhibition in San Diego will open to the public on March 4, 2023, in the Linda Formo Brandes Gallery at ICA San Diego / North in Encinitas. This exhibition is a collaboration between ICA San Diego and the Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA.

Narsiso Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca) creates drawings, paintings, and multi-media installations that celebrate the vital and often invisible labor performed by farmworkers in the United States. Drawing on diverse influences from 1930s social realism to street art, Martínez combines charcoal, gouache, gold leaf, and collage to produce portraits of industrious field workers layered atop cardboard produce boxes. By placing detailed images of the people who feed us against the slick graphics and punchy text of the corporate food industry, Martínez reintroduces the human element—in all its vulnerability—into our experience of the food we consume.
 
Our third Artist-in-Residence exhibition of the current season, ?????????????????? ????????????, ?????????????? ??????????, is opening soon, and we couldn’t be more thrilled!

???????? ????????: ??????????, opening on March 4th, 2023 at ICA San Diego / North, brings an interactive poetic meditation on national identity, displacement, and belonging. This is a unique opportunity for the San Diego community to build a personal connection to Puerto Rico and our Artist-in-Residence. Visitors will interact physically with her work and witness her creative process firsthand during Meet the Artist Hours.

For her first exhibition in San Diego, artist Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Chicago, IL) continues to create the site-specific installations that have defined this project since 2012. Using a range of materials from aluminum and PVC, to concrete and wood, Soto generates a sculptural language to express her experience navigating the Puerto Rican diaspora.

For more than a decade, she has recreated two common and beloved elements of Puerto Rican residential architecture outside of the island: the geometrically-patterned rejas (wrought-iron gates) and quiebrasoles (decorative concrete breeze blocks) that surround many of the island’s homes. This reconstruction of such distinctly Puerto Rican structures in faraway places offers a poetic meditation on national identity, displacement, and belonging.

At ICA San Diego, Soto will reconfigure a series of Graft works, altering colors, surface textures, and the photographic components to create a new installation.

MEET THE ARTIST


In residence March 4 – 19 and April 29 – May 21.
During Meet the Artist hours, the public is invited to speak with Edra Soto and contribute to an upcoming project. While in residence at the ICA San Diego, Soto will be crafting a fabric and metal flag out of four-pointed aluminum stars. This project, an expanded version of Soto’s 2021 work, Tropicalamerica 21, taking inspiration from the all-black Puerto Rican flag, which has become a symbol of Puerto Rican independence, resistance to colonialism, and civil disobedience since 2016. Soto invites the community to join her in the construction of this flag and will teach visitors how to make the four-pointed aluminum stars. 
 
MEET THE ARTIST HOURS


Saturday and Sunday 3:00 pm -5:00 pm
March 4,5,11,12, Sunday 19.
April 29, 30.
May 6,7,13,14, 20 and 21.