by Lauren Moya Ford | December 19, 2021 Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries. South of the Checkpoint / North of the River at Presa House Gallery offers an intimate, pensive view…
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By Michael Agresta | December 13, 2021 The Rio Grande Valley is not one of the easier places in America to build a career as a contemporary artist. The strip of predominantly blue-collar border towns and cities from the Gulf Coast and Brownsville up the river to Edinburg, McAllen, and…
Joseph Bravo | November 28, 2021 The Context of the Landscape In the contemporary era, one in which digital communities are emerging that seem to transcend our sense of place and where identities are formed in geo-ambiguous cyberspace, the landscape itself, let alone its representation in art, may appear anachronistic;…