Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Corazon Nopalero, 2023
Blown glass and mixed media
25 x 15 x 9 in
63.5 x 38.1 x 22.9 cm
63.5 x 38.1 x 22.9 cm
Corazón Nopalero depicts a nopal cactus, a Chicano Iconography staple growing from the heart's valves. This work processes the relationship between the artists and their culture and their proximity. Einar...
Corazón Nopalero depicts a nopal cactus, a Chicano Iconography staple growing from the heart's valves. This work processes the relationship between the artists and their culture and their proximity. Einar de la Torre explains in an interview with Glasstire for their 2024 McNay exhibition, “Culture is different when you are born into a culture than when you are first or second generation; we are not going to be defined by this or that [definition].”
Exhibitions
Threading Glass: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2025Upward Mobility, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; curators: René Paul Barilleaux, and Lauren Thompson, 2024
