From left: painting from Trying to fit in and Stand Out series,
Garden of Earthly Delights lawnmower and video
Including LA and Mexico City based Ortiz-Torres' latest sculpture, video, photographs and modified and customized machines, the exhibition wittily reveals the contradictions of labor, class and political issues embedded in the complicated and confrontational US and Mexican cultural relationship.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts, a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency,
and the College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at
Chicago.
