ABOUT THE EVENT
In partnership with Mullowney Printing we will have Nuria Montiel and her mobile press, Imprenta Móvil (IM), at Stelo to engage folks in the development of a new project.
Nur is the Summer 2023 Federico Sevilla Sierra resident at Mullowney Printing. During her time in Portland, she'll be engaging with a series of public interventions on the streets, building bridges between the creative community in Portland and Puebla, where she currently resides.
Join us to view the current exhibition on view, Una Palabra de Lucha during First Thursday and meet Nuria.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nuria Montiel (Mexico City, 1982) is currently part of the National System of Art Creators (2021-2024) with the project "Masa Madre, jardines y fogatas”; an open work that mutates, activates and pulsates in time with the collaboration of different people who converge in the same space through artistic practices that involve dialogical and artisanal processes. It is a continuation of a previous work "A fuego lento,” an installation made up of a series of objects produced in collaboration with artisans and artists from the Purépecha region in Michoacán. It was commissioned for the XIV FEMSA Biennial (2020). Montiel’s work has been shown individually in “Tejido/RbutCIV” (2019) at the Instituto Cultural de México in Belize, “Wxnder Wxrds” (2015) at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and “¡Sacúdete!” (2013) Proyecto Fachada del Museo de Arte Público Siqueiros in México City. In recent years she has participated in collective exhibitions, fairs, concerts and meetings inside and outside the country, among which are "The Space between Classrooms, 5th Annual Architecture Exhibition”, Swiss Institute in NYC (2021); "The abuse of forms", MACG in Mexico (2019-2020); “Open Graphics: Expansive Routes in Mexican Graphics”, CIRCA Gallery, in Montreal (2018).
Nuria Montiel obtained her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015-2017) and attended the PEC-SOMA contemporary art program (2010-2012). She completed her degree in visual arts from the Faculty of Arts and Designs-UNAM (2002-2008) where she was a member of the Multiple Media Seminar. She has been awarded the Young Creators scholarship twice. She has done artistic residencies at Casa Wabi in Oaxaca; The Wall in Colombia; ISCP-FONCA in New York, Davidoff Artist Initiative in the Dominican Republic and at the Hyde Park Art Center Museum in the city of Chicago. Montiel lives and works in Mexico where she is a full-time professor at the UDALP undergrad program for Fine Art.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art has the potential to transform consciousness, feed the imagination, provoke experiences that expand our sensitivity and understanding of the world; accompanied by other knowledge and practices, art has the power to guide the human being towards a future of common well-being that generates symbolic counterweights against the fear, ignorance and violence of humanity. Exciting experiences, that erase limits and borders, that mix us and make us learn from each other, are ingredients from which my work is nourished. The work begins with a personal concern that gives way to a research process based on travel and drift from which dialogues and collaborations with different interlocutors arise. Inquiries that materialize in the production of pieces that come to life in space with the participation of the public.