MFA student Jackie Amézquita’s mixed media art sprouts ideas of regeneration
Through mixed media art, fine arts graduate student Jackie Amézquita creates works centered on regeneration, growth and the experiences of migrants.
"Jackie Amézquita is grafting her past experiences with new growth.
Utilizing natural materials such as produce and soil, the graduate student in fine arts said her mixed media work is closely linked to her personal memories, from her childhood in Central America to her migration experience as a teenager. With art that stems from ideas of immigration, growth and decay, Amézquita said her use of products derived from the earth, such as fruit and copper, aims to convey the regenerative nature of life.
“It’s up to the new life that has formed in this environment to navigate, to be fluid between spaces,” Amézquita said. “This is something that I’m trying to talk about in my work – how fluidity, migration and mobility are fundamental aspects of all living things, human and nonhuman.”
Born and raised in Guatemala, Amézquita said she was always surrounded by produce and the natural world. As an artistic child without traditional art supplies such as paint and canvas, she said she turned to the earth, crafting sculptures from mud and the masa used to make tortillas. Years later, she said these materials still remain her medium of choice." — Zinnia Finn, June 4th, 2022
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