Tag: Esteban Cabeza de Baca

Esteban Cabeza de Baca at Garth Greenan Gallery

Queens-based artist Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s parents met while working as union organizers for United Farmworkers founders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta; in Cabeza de Baca’s colorful narrative paintings at Garth Greenan Gallery in Chelsea, he pays homage to both family and labor history.  Here in ‘Huelga,’ or ‘Strike,’ Chavez and Huerta walk down a row of grapes, a reference to a nation-wide boycott of the fruit led by the duo as they fought for fair wages and decent working conditions for farm workers.  (On view through July 21st).

Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Huelga, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches, 2023.

Esteban Cabeza de Baca at Garth Greenan Gallery

Drawing on inspiration from his Spanish, Mexican, Apache and Zuni ancestry and the landscape of the American Southwest, Esteban Cabeza de Baca manifests spiritual and political concepts in paintings and sculpture now on view at Garth Greenan Gallery.  The clay outline of a human form set before a mountainous landscape in this painting ‘Vessels’ also exists as a sculpture in gallery.  Painted or in three dimensions, it signals an in-between state of existence, for Cabeza de Baca, a freedom in pursuing decolonized thought.  (On view through March 13th. Masks and social distancing required).

Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Vessels, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches, 2020.