UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Artist: Xochi Solis
Xochi Solis (b. 1981) is an Austin, TX-based artist sharing her studio time between Texas and Mexico. Her works include multilayered, collaged paintings constructed of paint, hand-dyed paper, vinyl, plastics, and images from found books and magazines. Solis considers the repeated act of layering a meditation on color, texture, and shape all leading to a greater awareness of the visual intricacies found in her immediate environment, both natural and cultural. During the summer of 2021, she was an invited artist of WRONG Marfa to participate in a pilot residency program in Marfa, TX. In 2016, she was an artist-in-residence at Pele Prints in St. Louis, MO, completing a series of monoprints that combined her painting and collage methods with a variety of printmaking techniques. Continuing to explore these printmaking techniques, she has collaborated on two editions with Shoestring Press in Brooklyn, NY in 2017 and 2018. Solis is one of 30 artists featured in the book Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste, Mash Up and Transform (Chronicle Books, 2014) and one of 45 featured artists in the recent publication A BIG IMPORTANT ART BOOK (NOW WITH WOMEN): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--and Projects to Help You Become One (Running Press, 2018)
Recent exhibitions include: Rooted by invisible means, Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, TX (2020); Remedies for a Generation: Xochi Solis & Rachel Levit Ruiz, Uprise Art (2020); Crawl into the shapes the shadow takes, WRONG Gallery in Marfa, TX (2018); Mujeres del Sur / Women from The South, The Union HTX in Houston, TX (2018); At Large: Part 2, Reyes Project in Birmingham, MI (2018); Shaped by Subtraction, BOX 13 Artspace in Houston, TX (2017); Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2017. In addition to her studio practice, she is a board member at Future Front Texas and manages and spins records with the Austin chapter of Chulita Vinyl Club.
Photo credit: Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas