Salvador Domínguez: Arreglos Artificiales
de boer is pleased to present Arreglos Artificiales, a solo exhibition by Salvador Domínguez. His second solo exhibition with the gallery is energized by feelings and explores themes of love, power, and pride. Bringing together new paintings, vessels, and a site-specific installation, the exhibition intersects craft, artifice, and cultural memory through the recurring motifs of floral arrangements.
Domínguez transforms one room of the gallery into a site-specific installation inspired by the neighborhood florerías that populate much of Southern California and Mexico. Walls saturated in color become the backdrop for an immersive environment in which handwoven vessels constructed from brightly colored pipe cleaners are arranged on custom-made shelves.
Salvador Domínguez (b. 1985, Zacatecas, Mexico) lives and works between Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA. Like many first-generation immigrants, language is an important part of Domínguez’s narrative. Domínguez's practice transforms the vernacular objects and visual culture of Mexican American life into materially rich meditations on labor, memory, and belonging. Domínguez has had solo exhibitions at de boer, Los Angeles, CA; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL; The Clark Arts Center at Rockford University, IL. Group exhibitions include those at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX; Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Gallery, Garnett, KS; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Carroll University, Waukesha, WI; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, among others.