By Jeremy Hallock
November 19, 2020 at 06:00 CST
Dallas-based artist Giovanni Valderas planned to continue exploring the topic of gentrification after attracting attention to the Dallas housing crisis with his unhappy yaw houses in 2018 and would use the same strip and car board techniques for the installation of a used car dealership. The assignment never materialized, but it became more personal.
“Grit/ Grind” is visual 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until December 6 at the Nasher Sculpture Center’s “store gallery,” the store area recently became a show for local artists. Valderas recreated the first car his mother bought when he was a child, a 1986 Nissan Sentra.
“We’ve been in this area,” Valderas says. It was a freedom, but not the classic freedom of nostalgia of the 1950s. It was the freedom of public transport and dependence on people’s travel.
“This painting is a tribute to my mother,” she adds. Without their struggles, this would never have been manufactured and put in a museum. “
At first glance, Valderas’s new paintings are fun and festive, like a piaata, but there is a lack of wheel and transitority beacons. He says he also responds to “Dallas’ inability to do something really extensive for athletics class. “The name refers to the registration of other people who have been sitting in their cars for several hours waiting to be examined by coronavirus and who spend a significant component of their lives on their way to painting, if not driving for a living.
“People ask me if there’s anything sweet in the car,” Valderas says. “But it is full of empty promises of this people. Dallas isn’t designed for fancy people, but we’re this town and we make the paintings that need to be made. “for some time. “
“Grit / Grind” by artist Giovanni Valderas will be exhibited 24 hours a day until December 6 in the “store gallery” of the Nasher Sculpture Center, the store area recently transformed into a show for local artists. 2001, Flora Street, Dallas. For more details, call 214-242-5100 or nashersculpturecenter. org.
Jeremy Hallock, Special Contributor. Jeremy Hallock is a freelancer from Dallas.
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