This fall, SAMA will host the first retrospective exhibition of the influential Chicana artist and cultural critic Amalia Mesa-Bains, who pioneered the genre of altar-installation. Presenting work from the entirety of her career for the first time, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory features over forty works in a wide range of media and celebrates Mesa-Bains’s important contributions to the field of contemporary art.
For over forty-five years, Mesa-Bains has innovated sacred forms such as altares (home altars), ofrendas (offerings to the dead), descansos (roadside resting places), and capillas (home yard shrines) to recover cultural memory and position Chicana art into the broader field of contemporary American art.
- You may arrive anytime during your purchased hours.
- Free hours for Bexar County residents are Sunday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Tuesday 4 to 7 p.m.
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