Exhibition
All The Unexpressed Love
Works by Miguel A. Aragón
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
OPENING DATE: Sunday, April 13, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
CLOSING DATE: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Through his work, artist Miguel A. Aragón explores subjects of violence, memory, and perception, transforming difficult images into catharsis. This series is a deeply personal collaboration with Aragón’s late mother, whose crochet and personal effects are the foundation of the artwork. It is a conversation between past and present, between mother and son, between the finite nature of our existence and the connections that endure across time.
Miguel A. Aragón was born in Juárez, México. He lives and works in New York City (USA) and Berlin (Germany); he is an Associate Professor in Printmaking and Chairperson of the Department of Performing & Creative Arts, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. Aragón has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada, to name a few. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute fellowship and residency, Berkeley, CA; East London Printmakers Keyholder Residency, England; The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia fellowship residency, Italy; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany, among many others. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Aragón’s work has been published in A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking (Greenville, NC: Wellington B. Gray Gallery, 2012), ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020) and more. In 2022, he was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award, Norway; and was awarded the 2022 Southern Graphics Council International Mid-Career Printmaker Award.
Image credit: Miguel A. Aragón, Flor, 2023, cyanotype with crocheted object. (detail)