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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 2h

TANYA AGUIÑIGA crossed the border btw Tijuana & San Diego daily to go to school (fairly common, I had schoolmates who did the same). Her work is grounded by themes of nationality, gender, & plays w symbols & everyday life things equally. 🧵 National Hispanic Heritage month #AbstractArtist #Mexico

Installation view of Nopal (2017) Tanya Aguiñiga.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 18h

Finally, here’s some fotos of Pia Camil, the artist behind the art.

The artist looks out at the viewer, face partially shadowed, hair loosely pulled back, wearing a black shirt and a long necklace.

The artist in a black & white photograph sits in front of art work.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 18h

This remarkable art installation from PIA CAMIL uses the idea of tarps that are strung up by tiangueros to protect their tianguis (stalls) at markets in Mexico but the material is recycled over and over between the Global South and the US and back. #Abstractartist

Installation view of Bara, Bara, Bara
Dallas Contemporary
Dallas, Texas, 2017
Pia Camil.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 19h

PIA CAMIL often uses the visual world of her native place, #Mexico City to create conversation about modernism, consumerism, advertising. #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 1d

Finally some fotos of VIRGINIA JARAMILLO herself, the artist behind the art! #AbstractArtist

A black & white foto of a young woman with dark hair cut with backs and in a bob, wearing a sweater turtleneck, her arms a crossed as she looks at the viewer. Behind her a canvas art work.

The elder Virginia Jaramillo gazes at the viewer with a slight smile and humor in her eyes, she wears a dark shirt and scarf. A large artwork hangs behind her in a gallery setting.

fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps a projection of the structures our mind creates to understand the natural world seems to me as profound as any physics research. VIRGINIA JARAMILLO’s work is staggeringly mind-expanding, even through minimalism she often employs. #AbstractArt

Spatial Quadrant (2021) Virginia Jaramillo.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 1d

How to understand the world, our relationship to it, has got to be one of the most fundamental aspects of being human. That VIRGINIA JARAMILLO uses abstraction as an alternate way to get at these questions? Legendary. 🧵 National Hispanic Heritage Month #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt #Chicana #mexico

Birth of Venus (1974) Virgina Jaramillo.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 2d

A subtle #glow to this image courtesy of Wakpa Tanka / Mississippi River #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #Abstract #AbstractPhotography

Abstract image with part of it having orange dots and part with blueish tear-drop shapes with black dots inside.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, fotos of LUIS MERMUDEZ, the artist behind all the art!

In a black and white photograph, Luis Bermudez looks out at viewer. His hands rest on a ceramic work. There is a smile on his bearded face.

An older Luis Bermudez stand in his workshop, hands T his sides, looking out at viewer.

fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 2d

LUIS BERMUDEZ also did really gorgeous installation work, like this one in this image (not the greatest foto, visit www.luisbermudez.com/sobre-la-vid... for better view) #Chicano #AbstractArtist

El árbol de las montañas (1993-94) Luis Bermúdez.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 3d

In his La Cueva series, LUIS BERMUDEZ explored our human connection to the natural world, via caves & masks…which I never considered as being two aspects of the same thing … gah mind expanded!!! #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt

La Cueva, C-4 (1988-1992) Luis Bermudez.

La Cueva, C-6 (1988-1992) Luis Bermudez.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 3d

LUIS BERMUDEZ - a LA-based #Chicano artist - is beloved for his ceramic artworks & asan educator. His work reflects on nature, memory, the sacred, often including statues impossible to climb as reference to ancient mesoamerican pyramids. 🧵 Natl Hispanic heritage Month #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt

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Daryk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @fishdong.bsky.social · 3d

Nocturne - Beach
8" x 8"
Oil and cold wax on paper
October 2025

#art #painting #oilpainting #oilonpaper #coldwax #expressiveart #abstract #abstractart #modernpainting #contemporaryart #paintingoftheday #artshare #louisvilleartist #cansonpaper #traditionalmediums
@bsky.art

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 3d

What a great piece of work!

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Daniel Fišer @danielfiser.bsky.social · 3d

Treshold III

#sky #cloud #landscape #abstractart #danielfiser #art

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

Finally fotos of PERLA KRAUZE, the artist responsible for the art.

The artist Perla Krauze kneels on one knee, looking up to the left, surrounded by art pieces.

Black and white photography of Perla Krauze seated in an armchair, she has short hair and glasses, smiles at someone off camera, off to the right.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

Gah bsky needs edit capability as I had a complete block on PERLA KRAUZE’s name and kept writing Paula or Krause or both and I can’t tell you how many times I had to delete and re-do this 🧵. Gah, Daniela!!!

fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

Stone workshops in Puebla Mexico feature stones that other stones are cut upon, they bear the markings of the blades used in cutting & PERLA KRAUZE uses these in many of her artworks. Quite stunning to me. #AbstractArt

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

This installation by PERLA KRAUZE at a gallery in Brooklyn (from 2019) features materials from both New York and Puebla & Oaxaca, Mexico. Asking questions about connections, the history of materials, territories, malleability of things we think of as permanent. #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt

Installation view, SMALL LANDSCAPES FROM NEAR AND FAR Perla Krauze. 2019.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

PERLA KRAUSE is a painter, sculptor, installation artist. Many of her recent works use, assemble, reassemble rocks, tying her work to geology and at same time intangible motions like memory & history. 🧵 Natl Hispanic Heritage Month #AbstractArtist #AbstractArt #Mexico

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

And finally, fotos of MIGUEL CASTRO LEÑERO, the artist behind the art.

Miguel Castro Leñero in black & white photo facing to the side with hand over mouth, eyes seen to be smiling, artwork beyond.

Head and shoulders shot of the artist looking directly at viewer, he is bearded and balding, a large artwork fills the background.

fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

If you aren’t absolutely charmed by MIGUEL CASTRO LEÑERO’s work…are you even alive? #AbstractArtist

Casa Para Armar II (2024) Miguel Castro Leñero.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 4d

MIGUELCASTRO LEÑERO blends abstraction with pure lines depicting everyday objects, textured surfaces, and the space for all this to breathe. 🧵 Natl Hispanic Heritage Month
#AbstractArtist #Mexico

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · 5d

MANUEL FELGUÉREZ is one of the prominent members of the Generación de la Ruptura (and was the husband of LILIA CARILLO) but he never made a living from his art which included mural sculpture, painting, sculpture. 🧵 Natl Hispanic Heritage Month #AbstractArtist #Mexic

Mural de Hierro (1961) Manuel FELGUÉREZ.

La llave de Kepler, 1978, Manuel FELGUÉREZ.

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