Posted on Tuesday, 19 June 2012

..with art based on the violence of drug cartels and the impact on ciudad juarez…i will either be at the closing reception, or present with my love tomorrow during the day…free to the public. mexicarte. Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma In the annex gallery, the Mexic-Arte Museum presents new works by Miguel Aragón. Originally from Ciudad Juarez Mexico, Aragón is an MFA graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin specializing in traditional, technological, and experimental printmaking. Aragón’s current series explores images from Mexican newspaper clippings and photographs chronicling the ongoing drug-related violence. Using a conceptual framework of reduction, trauma, and erasure Aragón parallels his artistic process with the experiences of those directly affected by the ongoing violence. Miguel Aragón Retrato #1; Negro Hand-drilled paper with layered Xerox 2011

..with art based on the violence of drug cartels and the impact on ciudad juarez…i will either be at the closing reception, or present with my love tomorrow during the day…free to the public. mexicarte.

Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma

In the annex gallery, the Mexic-Arte Museum presents new works by Miguel Aragón. Originally from Ciudad Juarez Mexico, Aragón is an MFA graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin specializing in traditional, technological, and experimental printmaking. Aragón’s current series explores images from Mexican newspaper clippings and photographs chronicling the ongoing drug-related violence. Using a conceptual framework of reduction, trauma, and erasure Aragón parallels his artistic process with the experiences of those directly affected by the ongoing violence.


Miguel Aragón
Retrato #1; Negro
Hand-drilled paper with layered Xerox
2011