{"id":21524,"date":"2022-04-12T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:24:16","slug":"rixy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2022\/04\/12\/rixy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rixy ‘Enter the C\u00facala’ At Simmons Trustman Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roxbury artist Rixy’s exhibition “Enter the C\u00facala”<\/a> is on view at Simmons University’s Trustman Gallery, 300 The Fenway, Boston, from April 4 to May 13, 2022.<\/p>\n

“This series investigates Rixy\u2019s personal Caribbean Latinidad experiences and explores a world inhabited by her cast of strong, vivacious and daring femme characters,” according to the gallery. “Painted with a variety of media, works in the exhibition seek to liberate Rixy\u2019s characters from Machismento\u2019s toxicity and recontextualize them in an environment of shifting power dynamics. Each femme character and creature, carefully and lovingly rendered in bright, dazzling colors, exudes sensual awareness. Depicted on found materials like packaging cardboard imbued with the sense-memory of previously contained objects, Rixy\u2019s characters take on an additional dimension of meaning, in line with the artist\u2019s emphasis on communal practice and storytelling. Rixy grounds her work with a sense of site-specificity through hand-painted designs on the gallery\u2019s walls, as well as strings, chains, ropes, and braids that act as physical connections between her artwork and the space, bringing her dynamic, colorful world into our reality.”<\/p>\n

And what is the translation of the exhibition title?\u00a0The gallery explains: “Online results will tell you that ‘c\u00facala’ means ‘wink,’ but actually the term as it is used in this exhibition is a reference to the Spanish slang that Rixy learned from her mother, who would use the word ‘c\u00facala’ to mean the vagina.”<\/p>\n

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\"Rixy.<\/a>
Rixy. (Courtesy Simmons University’s Trustman Art Gallery)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201c2 In a Room – Giddy Up (1995)\u201d 2022, 70x85in, Spray paint, acrylic, ink, oil stick, + thread on treated cardboards, with twill rope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy\u2019s<\/a>
Rixy\u2019s “Enter the C\u00facala” exhibition at Simmons University’s Trustman Art Gallery, April 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cy Gargola 2,\u201d 2020, 20x24in, Acrylic + ink on treated canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cNow What Kind of Knucklehead Told Y\u2019all To Go This Way?\u201d 2022, 50x40in, Paper, spray paint, acrylic, ink, marker, thread + fire on treated cardboards, with paracord.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cSketch X: An offering to Her,\u201d 2021, 30x48in, Marker on craft paper + fabric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cHypnotized by the Charmer,\u201d 2021, 30x24in, Spray paint, acrylic, ink + iridescence on cardboard, with plastic chain link + brass hardware.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cGargola 1,\u201d 2020, 20x24in, Acrylic, ink, + thread, on treated canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cAttuned to the Messenger,\u201d 2021, 24x30in, Spray paint, acrylic, ink + iridescence on cardboard, with paracord + brass hardware.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cA Baby Blue Vessel,\u201d 2022, 30x90in, Acrylic, ink + Iridescence on cardboard, with synthetic hair tails, cowrie shells, + bamboo bar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy,<\/a>
Rixy, \u201cTo Not Give a Mango\u2019s Damn,\u201d 2021, 69x69in, ultraviolet paper, spray paint, acrylic, ink, marker, pencil, thread + fire on treated cardboards, with synthetic hair tail, cowrie shells, + brass hardware.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy's<\/a>
Rixy’s 2020 mural at 877 Main St., Cambridge. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rixy's<\/a>
Rixy’s 2020 mural at 877 Main St., Cambridge. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Postcard<\/a>
Postcard for Rixy\u2019s “Enter the C\u00facala” exhibition at Simmons University’s Trustman Art Gallery, April 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roxbury artist Rixy’s exhibition “Enter the C\u00facala” is on view at Simmons University’s Trustman Gallery, 300 The Fenway, Boston, from April 4 to May 13, 2022. “This series investigates Rixy\u2019s personal Caribbean Latinidad experiences and explores a world inhabited by her cast of strong, vivacious and daring femme characters,” according to the gallery. “Painted with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[971,527,972,526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21534,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions\/21534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}