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"Carmen Argote’s multidisciplinary practice hinges on corporeal processing within the specific spaces she inhabits. Through sculpture, installation, and performance, she draws upon her immediate environment and its connection to systems of labor and consumption. These connections are communicated through the materials she chooses—cochineal, citrus fruit, and coffee—which denote labor, histories of violence and oppression, and colonialism. Argote’s work raises questions about architecture, experience, and the body: how do bodies move through specific spaces? What structures define those movements? And how can those subtleties be visualized for others to see?\n\nIn this site-specific installation, Argote references the VAC’s architecture, attempting to disrupt the boundaries between inside and outside. An untreated linen textile draws its pattern from the concrete pavers in the VAC’s courtyard and is the site of a process-based painting produced in the gallery with dye made from cochineal—insects often found on cacti throughout the Americas—and lemon juice. In addition to the textile, Argote produced two works on paper during her residency at the VAC, both of which are included in Me At Market.\n\n \n\nASSOCIATED EVENTS\n\nPanel Conversation with Carmen Argote, Laura Gutierrez and George Flaherty\nTuesday, January 28 // 3:30 PM // Art Building, Rm. 1.102\n\n \n\nCarmen Argote: Me At Market: Gallery Talk with Astrid Runggaldier\nTuesday, February 18 // 12 PM // Visual Arts Center\n \n\nCarmen Argote: Me At Market: Performance Art II Student Activations\nTuesday, March 3 // 2 PM // Visual Arts Center\n \n\nBIO\n\nCarmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, México) received both a BA (2004) and a MFA (2007) from University of California, Los Angeles. Argote has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York (2019); PAOS, Guadalajara (2019); Ballon Rouge Collective, New York (2018); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018 and 2016); Panel LA, Los Angeles (2017); and the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013) amongst others. Argote has participated in group exhibitions at the Instituto de Visión, Madrid, Spain (2019); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (2018); Denver Art Museum, Denver (2017); Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston (2017); Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); and The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago (2015) amongst others. She is the recipient of an Artadia Los Angeles Award (2019); The Nancy Graves Foundation Artist Grant (2018); the Rema Hort Mann Foundation YoYoYo Grant (2015); and the California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2013)."
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