KIM SANDOVAL
Chicana Scholar, Artist, Theorist, & Herpetologist
I am a first-generation Mexican American college graduate from Brownsville, Texas. My primary mediums of work are oil painting, video art, and analog photography as different ways to explore my autohistoria-teoria. The Brownsville-Harlingen Metropolitan Area is an inherently political zone, being the closest to the US-Mexico Border, and having the wall cut through city limits. In my work, I highlight my everyday Borderlands experiences using not the border wall, but the local landscape, snakes, classical iconography, and visual quotations, referencing art history, to highlight the lack of representation in our art canons.
“We are forced (or choose) to live in categories that defy binaries of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Living in intersections, in cusps, we must constantly operate in a negotiation mode”