Piel con Piel

Oct 24, 2024 - Feb 2, 2025
Collaborative Group Show

Piel con Piel is a collaborative group show consisting of contributions from over 10 artists, both local and national. 

Curator Yehimi Cambrón worked with each artist to create a piece made from repurposed leather, which comes together to form a larger installation.

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Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez

Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and public speaker born in Michoacán, México. She immigrated to Georgia at seven, grew up undocumented in Atlanta, and has been a DACA recipient since 2013.

Cambrón’s work explores the nuances of undocumentedness and its thread in the movement toward collective liberation. Through public art, she has served as a monument-maker asserting the humanity of immigrants in Atlanta, claiming barren walls to paint landmarks that belong to undocumented people. Her work institutes a space for immigrants within the South's dominant racial binary. From her first mural on Buford Hwy to her mural at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, she confronts the idea of who is worthy of public celebration in the home of the largest Confederate monument in the nation. She has worked to complicate the immigrant narrative beyond murals through portraits and site-specific installations. Cambrón has had solo exhibitions at the University of South Carolina’s Upstate Art Gallery (2022) and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (2023), and has exhibited at Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the High Museum of Art.

Cambrón received a B.A. in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College (2014) fully funded by the Goizueta Foundation. In 2015, she became an educator and one of the first Teach for America DACAmented Corps Members placed in Georgia. Two years later, she returned to Cross Keys High School, her alma mater, to teach art. In 2019, Cambrón left the classroom to pursue art full-time. She is completing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a recipient of the 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and is expanding her practice into fibers, sculpture, and discarded materials from her family's commercial furniture-making practice in Atlanta.

Anika Jeyaranjan

Anika Jeyaranjan (b. 2001) is an Indian-Srilankan artist born in New Jersey and based in Chicago, IL. She incorporates fiber techniques into her multimedia sculptures and installations.

Inspired by how her body has reacted to its held generational trauma, Jeyaranjan creates artwork focused on bodily agency. She questions pre-existing western notions of bodily boundaries through distorting objects and environments that have been in contact with her own body. 

Adrienne Weiss

Based in Chicago, Adrienne Weiss (she/they) b. 1983 is a multidisciplinary fiber artist and educator whose practice is rooted in the understanding that corporeal awareness, research, ritual, dreams, activism, and art-making are interdependent phenomena that work together in service of personal and collective liberation.

Adrienne’s work is a sensual and earth-facing exploration of the ecological realities of identity, embodiment, and direct experience. She works primarily with filamentous materials and weaving techniques. She is interested in the life of intersecting lines, the metaphors they conjure, and finding a balance between manipulating them and letting them move in their own mystical ways. Adrienne utilizes the visual language of dreams, visions, lineage, and symbols to create a woven world of talismanic art.

Gloria Martinez-Granados

Gloria Martinez-Granados is a Phoenix, Arizona-based artist. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, she migrated to the United States of America with her family at 8 years old.

Gloria is an interdisciplinary artist creating with indigenous practices, adding a contemporary approach by including printmaking, assemblage, installation and performance to the more traditional arts of beadwork and weaving. Through this process, she develops themes around identity, dreams, place, home, and land. This merges with her experience growing up undocumented in the United States and the legal limbo she lives day to day as a DACAmented person.

Merryn Omotayo Alaka

Merryn Omotayo Alaka (b. 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Nigerian and American artist whose work spans from sculptural works, textiles, to jewelry design and explores realities and identities across the Black Diaspora and the Black female body.

Her works often draw references from West African textiles, Yoruba beaded sculptures and forms of adornment. She uses culturally and historically significant materials such as hair, jewelry, beads, and textiles to do so. Alaka uses this range of materials to address subjective cultural and racial perspectives.

Pato Muñoz-Vázquez

Lucero “Pato” Muñoz Vázquez (She/her) (b. 1998) is an indigenous Mexican artist nomadically based in the USA and born in Progreso de Obregon, Hidalgo, Mexico. At the age of 4, she became an undocumented immigrant along with her mother, father, and older brother. They immigrated to the Deep South.

Pato’s work explores the nuances of being a queer DACAmented immigrant, having grown up in Gwinnett County, Georgia (aka the deep south). With her most recent work, after having a pivotal homecoming to her hometown in Mexico, she began exploring beadwork through a fusion of indigenous and contemporary practices.

Through different techniques her work represents resistance towards the violent lingering effects of colonialism. She challenges the conventional notions of assimilation by disrupting the norm she was taught to follow out of fear of being undocumented, immigrant, and brown.

Chelsea Bighorn

Chelsea Bighorn (b.1989) was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, and is Lakota, Dakota and Shoshone -Paiute. 

Bighorn’s work is the result of her combining traditional Native American design with elements from her Irish American heritage. Using this process, she tells her personal history through her art.

Saba Maheen

Saba Maheen (b.1997 Lawrenceville, GA) is a female, queer, Muslim, Bengali-American, multimodal maker and thinker working with image, reproduction, and participation.

Utilizing multi-medic forms, there is a porosity in the goals of her work: In the wake of the viral-ized Palestinian genocide, Maheen urges her audience to return to a radical, collective humanity for one another, and to understand “here and there-ness” of inter solidarity liberation. 

More specifically, analyzing the diminishing rate of attention in response to short-form media, she believes it is imperative to combat the flattening, desensitizing effect that social media has beyond the screen.


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