Honorable
Mention
Alejandro
T. Acierto
Alejandro
T. Acierto is a musician, artist, and
activist who grew up on the Northside of
Chicago and now resides in New York.
His work
primarily focuses on social and racial
justice issues, but he also has more
recently come to work with post-colonial
and mixed heritage identities as they
intersect with notions of race, gender,
and class. As a person of mixed
heritage, he is interested in working on
issues and organizing beyond boundaries
in an effort to establish meaningful
dialogue between seemingly disparate
identities.
Alejandro
graduated from DePaul University in 2008
with degrees in performance and
composition while also completing a
minor in Asian American Studies.
Sixteen
panels is the first in a series of works
called shades of brown that attempt to
reframe the ideological notion of race
within a black/white paradigm that are
based on the notion of
self-representation as a means of
reclaiming history. Beginning the
process with my own history, this piece
was envisioned as a self-portrait and
articulates the colonial histories of my
heritage as a Mexican-Pilipino American.
Through various images taken from maps
of the colonial powers during the 1500s
and the incorporation of smaller
portraits of four important colonizers
in the histories of the two nations, I
attempted to weave the two histories
together to show the similarities
between the experiences. The multiple
brown panels try to consider variations
of brown, both symbolically and
literally, while also serving as a
backdrop to the portrait of myself.
Honorable
Mention Entry
Sixteen Panels
acrylic, pen and
pencil on masonite
24 x 24
2008
$250
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for a full list of artists included in the 2008
exhibition.
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2008 exhibition.
