Na sympozium přijede sice pouze Einar, obvykle ale tvoří se svým bratrem Jamexem. Narodili se v Mexiku. Ještě jako děti se přestěhovali Californie. V současné době žijí a pracují na obou stranách hranice. Zkušenost imigrantů a směs vlivů obou odlišných kultur formovali jejich estetiku. Jejich charakteristický opulentní styl kombinuje křesťanskou tématiku s evropským expresionismem, mexické lidové umění s předkolumbovskými kulturami. Nechybí jim vtip a nadhled.
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CHEECH
Tipping Point
Vzdělání
1985 – 1982
California State University, Long Beach
Pracovní zkušenosti / Work experience
pedagog, lektor – foukání skla / educator, lecturer - glass blowing
Samostatné výstavy
2024
Collaidoscope, Retrospective exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
“Upward Mobility” McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio Texas
Collaidoscope, Retrospective exhibition at The Phillbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma
2023
Post Columbian Futurism. Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Collaidoscope, Retrospective exhibition at The Corpus Cristy Art Museum, Corpus Cristy, Texas
2022
Colonial Postcards, The Museo do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
Collaidoscope, Retrospective exhibition at the Cheech Museum, Riverside, CA
First exhibition of the Smithsonian Latino
2019
Florentine Syndrome, SiC! Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland,
Rococo Lab Cornell Fine Arts Museum│Rollins Collegecornell University Museu
2018
Mexicanishen Maximalismus Frauneu Glass Museum, Frauneu, Germany
2017
Dovenskalb (Sloth), Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark (catalog)
2015
Three Solo Shows, Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam, Holland
2014
Three Solo Shows, National Glass Centre Museum, Sunderland, England
2013
Three Solo Shows, Glazhuiz Museum, Lommel, Belgium (curated by Jeroen Maes, essay by John Drury)(catalog)
2012
Einar & Jamex de la Torre, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
El Melting Pot, Mesa Arts Center Museum, Mesa AZ
2011
Borderlandia, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ
2010
Borderlandia, The Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum
La Reconquista, MACLA, San José, CA (NEA grant)
2008
MesoAmerichanics, National Hispanic Center Museum, Albuquerque, NM (curated by Tey Nun, essays by Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and Tey Nun) (catalog)
2005
Reaching Critical Mass, The Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
Intersecting Time and Space, The Museum of Glass: International Center for
Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA (catalog, essay by Tina Oldknow)
2004
The American Museum of Glass, Millville, NJ
2003
The Museum of Art at Fort Collins, CO
2002
Neoreliquias, The Museo de las Artes of the University Guadalajara, Mexico (curated by Ricardo Duarte) (catalog, essay by Felipe Ehrenberg) (Catalog)
2001
Anacronistas, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin TX (essay by Marilyn Zeitlin)
1998
Ojito Tapatio, The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL (curated by Linda McAllister)
El Niño’s Wake, MACLA, San José, CA (essay by Raquel Tibol)
1997
Borderline Glass, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ (curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry)
Společné výstavy (výběr)
2023
Earthlings, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022
La Caja Galería, Tijuana, BC, Mexico
2021
Vodyanoy The Quint One Gallery, La Jolla , CA
2020
Koplin del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
The Longnecker Gallery, Huston, TX
High Noon, Robert Lehman Gallery Urbanglass gallery, Brooklyn NY
2018
Sloth, Quint Gallery, San Diego, California
2017
Borders & Other Imaginary Fractals, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Quemando las Naves, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
Hyperkulturemia, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Quemando las Naves, The Ship in the Woods gallery, Encinitas, CA
2014
Folkloric Acid, The Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Whysidro, The Front Gallery in San Ysidro, CA.
2012
Microcosmos, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Fallen Angels, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2010
Animexican, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
Pimp my Glass, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Inter-Continental Divide, Kimball Art Center, Park City Utah
2008
New Colonies in the New World, Koplin del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
Vitrolic Compliments, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma
2007
Figurate Esto, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2005
Desperados, The Price-Dewey Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Folkloric Acid, The Koplin-del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
End Show at The Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Infection Confection, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Super Grotesque Beauty, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Eurovirus, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Neorelics: The Spanglish Period, The Salina Art Center, Salina KS
2002
Angry Gods, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Neorelics, The Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
Neorelics, The Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Anacronistas, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (curated by Sean Kelly, essay by Leah Ollman)
2000
The Mexican Problem, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco. CA (curated by Kevin Chen)
Ácido Folclórico: en Retrosperspectiva, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, MX
1999
Nouveau Riche, The Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
La Conquista, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mesomodern, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Oxymodern, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
El Niño’s Wake, San José Center for Latino Arts, San José, CA
Arte Frontera, The Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998
11:58 (PMAD), The Robert Gallery, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Olga T. Valle)
The Intersections Program at the University of Hawaii, Pegge Hopper Gellery, Honolulu, HI
1997
The Marlboro Man & the Virgin, The Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
God’s Country, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Glass Frontera, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996
Folkloric Acid: The Resurrection, MACLA, San José, CA (curated Maribel L. Alvarez)
Show at The Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
El Chamuco, SOFA Miami, FL. Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Folkloric Acid, The San José Center for Latino Art, MACLA, San José, CA
1994
Sacrilege in Vitro, Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Figuras y Alegoria, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA (curated by Liz Lerma)
Ceny
2023
Einar. The Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship grant, Legacy Tier.
2017
Public Art Network-Year in Review, Rancho los Amigos Rehabilitation Center
2014
The USA Artists grant
2013
The San Diego Foundation grant
2010
Tijuana Cultural Center, Estandartes Biennal
The San Diego Art Prize
2007
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2006
The Joan Mitchell Grant Award
2004
Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
2001
Production grant, “Grand Arts” Kansas City
Veřejné sbírky
The Renwick Gallery Collection of the Smithsonian, Washington, DC
The Museum of southern Texas, Corpus Christy, TX
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
The AltaMed Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum│Rollins College Cornell University Museum
National Glass Center, Sunderland, UK
The American Glass Museum, Millville, NJ
Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
Arkansas Arts Center Museum, Little Rock, Ark.
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
The Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding Museum, Coesfeld, Germany
The Fisher Gallery Museum at USC, Los Angeles, CA
The Frauenau Museum of Glass, Frauenau, Germany
The Glazenhuis Museum, Lommel, Belgium
The Henry Art Gallery Museum of the Washington University, Seattle, WA
The Kanazu Museum in Kanazu, Japan
The Lowe Museum of University of Miami, Miami, FL.
The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum in Chicago, IL
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
The National Glass Museum, Leerdam, Holland.
The National Hispanic Center Museum, Albuquerque, NM
The Novy Bor Glass Museum, Czech Republic.
The Palm Springs Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
In the collections of the following glass schools: Northlands, Scotland; The Glass Furnace, Istanbul: The Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia.
Also in the private collections of Alice Walton, Cheech Marin, Elton John, Irwin Jacobs, Terry McMillan, Sandra Cisneros and Quincy Troupe.
Nejnovější publikace
2016
Paul Stankard, Studio Craft as a Career: A Guide to Achieving Excellence in Art-making, Schiffer, p. 126-127
2005
Gary D. Keller, Triumph of Our Communities, The Bilingual Press, p. 4, 158, 307
2004
Gary D. Keller, Chicano Art for Our Millennium, The Bilingual Press, p. 149, 154
2002
Max Schulz, Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, The Bilingual Press, p. 156-159
Georgina Fentoni, Glass Art 2002, published by Georgina Fentoni, London UK, p. 78
2001
Ray Leier, Contemporary Glass; Color Light & Form, Guild Publishing, p. 107
English