Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's artwork is marked by her compassionate and urgent engagement with contemporary issues, drawing on the fiber arts movement, Chicana feminist art, and Indigenous fiber- and loom-based traditions. She works with repurposed barbed wire, yellow caution tape, safety pins, and plastic bags, pushing the arts of the Americas beyond Eurocentric aesthetics toward culturally hybrid and Indigenous understandings of art-making.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 12 August 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's artwork is characterized by her deeply compassionate and urgent engagement with a diverse array of pressing contemporary issues, spanning from immigration and environmental precarity to the resilience of Indigenous ancestral values and the imperative of decolonial aesthetics in art-making. Drawing upon the fiber arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicana feminist art, and Indigenous fiber- and loom-based traditions, Jimenez Underwood's art encompasses a wide range of mediums, including needlework, weaving, painted and silkscreened pieces, installations, sculptures, and performance. This collection of essays explores her place in feminist textile art history, situates her work among that of other Indigenous-identified feminist artists, and delves into her signature works, series, techniques, images, and materials. By redefining the practice of weaving, Jimenez Underwood collaborates with repurposed materials such as barbed wire, yellow caution tape, safety pins, and plastic bags, blending Indigenous, Chicana, European, and Euro-American art practices, thereby pushing the arts of the Americas beyond Eurocentric aesthetics toward culturally hybrid and Indigenous understandings of art-making. Jimenez Underwood's innovative approach to weaving and painting, coupled with the socially and environmentally engaged dimensions of her work, positions her as one of the most vital artists of our time.
Contributors.
Constance Cortez, Karen Mary Davalos, Carmen Febles, M. Esther Fernández, Christine Laffer, Ann Marie Leimer, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Robert Milnes, Jenell Navarro, Laura E. Pérez, Marcos Pizarro, Verónica Reyes, Clara Román-Odio, Carol Sauvion, Cristina Serna, Emily Zaiden

Weight: 771g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478018322