ASPIRE | ASPIRAR Solo exhibition by Natalia Anciso

University of Houston | O’Kane Gallery

Natalia Anciso creates art predicated on realities and legends of her upbringing. Her works are visual records of family, community, and border culture along her native Rio Grande. These Borderlands are currently ravaged by poverty, human trafficking, and the escalating Mexican Drug War. The Rio Grande cuts one land and people in two, like a wound, bleeding a legacy of pain, tears, and struggle that have beset the area for generations. Anciso's family has resided in this geographic territory for over four generations.