Mextasy on the Move! Mextasy! Seductive Hallucinations of Latinas/os Prowling the American Unconscious" Coming to Fresno, California (CSUF) and to the University of Guelph! October 2011

Mextasy is on the Move! Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latinas/os in the American Unconscious is coming to Fresno, California (CSUF) and to the University of Guelph! October 2011

More info to come--the Fresno exhibit will be part of an NEH Conference,"Ethics, Religion, and Civil Discourse", October 13-15, 2011. My presentation is entitled: ""21st Century California Writers Now: Pre- and Post-Apocalyptic Nightmares, Vociferations, and Raptures" and will focus on the work of Myriam Gurba, Michele Serros, Culture Clash, Josh Kun, Oliver Mayer and Gilbert Hernandez.

 The Guelph info is here!

MEXTASY: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious

Original Posting: Late September 2010; update October 2010

"Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious" is an art show opening Fall 2010 at the Art Gallery @ South Texas College's Pecan Campus in McAllen, Texas--the show will be up from September 30th through November 12, 2010. There will be a lecture and book signing (free cartoon inscriptions, no less!) by William Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García @ 2:30pm, September 29, 2010 at the Mid-Valley Campus, Weslaco; and at 1pm, Thursday September 30, 2010 at the Pecan Campus Art Gallery in McAllen. There will also be a reception from 6 to 8pm on Thursday night at the Pecan Art Gallery.

These events are FREE/GRATIS. Click the image above for an image-laced summary.

If you love outrageous Mexican, Mexican-American and Chicana/o art, this is the show for you! Imagine El Chavo del Ocho fused with Andy Warhol and you get a feel for the groove of the show.

Curated by Rachael Freyman Brown, with the assistance of Amanda Alejos, with the meddling of the artist, Guillermo Nericcio García, the show promises to reflect and expand upon William Nericcio's 2007 book with UT Press, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America.


In addition to racist artifacts from American mass culture (the bread and butter of Uncle Sam's unconscious), the show also features works that are "xicanosmotic," that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious tattoo of the Mexican/US frontera is writ large as with Perry Vasquez, Izel Vargas, Marisela Norte, and Kenny Sanchez. More to come!