Description: Jesus Avena is a New Mexican local artist. His portfolio and site is aimed to boost exposure of his artwork. Learn more about Jesus Miguel Avena.
I am a first-generation Mexican-American painter and ceramicist. My portrait and figurative paintings explore human embodiment contrary to the human condition in personifying the internal dialogues on race, culture, and sexuality. Ceramic components amplify thematic ideas of historical and cultural aspects of the Chicano/a/x life and aesthetics. Amalgamating earthenware material with figurative paintings represents my mixed cultural lineage and animates my psychological landscape. My consciousness incorpora
Contemporary Santa Fe and Taos artists carry on the creative legacy that took root in the region over a century ago
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