Description
The accompanying catalog to the exhibition Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands on view at Tucson Museum of Art July 3- November 30, 2025.
- Published by Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block
- Contributors: Rigoberto Luna, Guest Curator; Ricardo Chavez; Christine C. Brindza; Marianna Pegno; Melani “Mele” Martinez; Logan Phillips; Diana Marie Delgado; Gabriel Dozal. Foreword by Anne Breckenridge Barrett
- ISBN 978-0-911611-51-9
- Paperback
- 100 pages
- English
- Price includes domestic media rate shipping
The accompanying publication for the exhibition, Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands presents new and recent work by contemporary artists living and working from both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Highlighting these artists’ innovative engagement with the region’s distinctive material culture—an area often overlooked in U.S. historical and institutional narratives. Gesturing towards the Chicano sensibilities of Rasquachismo—a legacy of resourcefulness born from necessity—blended with the European and American tradition of the readymade, these artists’ interventions transform mass-produced and found objects to examine diasporic themes of land, labor, migration, class, regional identity, and materiality.
Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands includes essays by Rigoberto Luna, Guest Curator; Ricardo Chavez; Christine C. Brindza; Marianna Pegno, each discussing portions of the history, contemporary intersections, and implications of Latinx art with respect to the Chicano Art Movement of the 20th century, visual culture of the Borderlands, creative use of materials, and the exhibition itself. Sections are introduced with poetry by Melani “Mele” Martinez; Logan Phillips; Diana Marie Delgado; and Gabriel Dozal.
Participating Artists
Andrés Caballero and Vanessa Saavedra
Margarita Cabrera
María José Crespo
Federico Cuatlacuatl
Raúl De Lara
Verónica Gaona
Gloria Martinez-Granados
Narsiso Martinez
Sophia Mayorga
Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya
Lorena Ochoa
Daisy Quezada Ureña
Gil Rocha
Miriam Salado
Vicente Telles
José Villalobos
Judi Werthein
