In Passing: Fronteño Epics Across Time, Juan de Dios Mora and Zeke Peña
Fri, Mar 03
|Contemporary at Blue Star
Come by Contemporary at Blue Star on First Friday, March 3rd from 6pm - 9pm for the opening of In Passing: Fronteño Epics Across Time, Juan de Dios Mora and Zeke Peña. This exhibit will run through June 4, 2023.
Time & Location
Mar 03, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Contemporary at Blue Star, 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA
About the event
Image: Juan de Dios Mora, Montando a la Escoba Voladora Riding the flying broom, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
This two-person exhibition explores themes of belonging and community through vivid and fantastic imagery. Zeke Peña and Juan de Dios Mora have cultivated distinct, graphic styles to build worlds which expand time and space to address immigration and human rights, influenced by science fiction and satirical and cartooning traditions.
Biography
Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and cartoonist from El Paso, TX. He makes comics and visual narratives that reclaim stories and remix history. His work is a mash-up of political cartoon, border rasquache and Hip Hop culture that addresses universal themes of identity, politics, ecology and social justice. He received a degree in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and is self-taught in the studio. He has received awards for his book illustrations and his work is…