Arleene Correa Valencia and Georgina Reskala with Shana Lopes

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
7:00 p.m. (Doors at 6:30 p.m.)
Free and Open to the Public

Join Crossing Lines/Lineas que Cruzamos artists Arleene Correa Valencia and Georgina Reskala for a conversation about migration, materiality, and the power of memory. Moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography (SFMOMA).

ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA
Arleene Correa Valencia (b.1993) is a Mexican multidisciplinary and community-oriented artist. After spending the first three years of life in her native Mexico she migrated to the United States and currently lives and works in Napa, California. She is a recipient of Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and holds both a BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In 2020, Correa Valencia’s short “Portraits of Napa Valley Workers”, produced by KQED Arts, received an Emmy Award in recognition of her work with undocumented agricultural workers in her hometown. Correa Valencia discusses the ethical, political and aesthetic strategies she has adopted in her practice to expose the effects that our current socio-political and ecological climate have on undocumented and agricultural communities in the U.S. www.correavalencia.com

GEORGINA RESKALA
Georgina Reskala was born and raised in Mexico City. She received her BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Reskala is an artist dealing with ideas of memory, history and the power of narrative. Through repetition, her works question the distortion of history through time and tie into ideas of collective memory and our shared past. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Hariban Award in Kyoto Japan. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Reskala has had several solo exhibitions at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART (Portland, OR), K.OSS Contemporary (Detroit, MI), The Meyer Simpson Library (Oakland, CA), Contornos (Mexico City), and Quotidian (San Francisco, CA). Her work has been shown at Zona Maco Foto (Mexico City), Seattle Art Fair (Seattle, WA), Photo LA (Los Angeles, CA), and Pulse Miami, (Miami, FL). Reskala’s work is held in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA), the Jordan Schnizter Museum of Art, University of Oregon (Eugene, OR), Cassilhaus Collection, (Chapel Hill, NC) and Museo Comunitario de Arte, Zacatecas (Mexico). She is currently an artist in residence at COAL in Santa Monica, CA. www.ginareskala.com

MODERATED BY SHANA LOPES
Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Over the past fourteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has organized exhibitions on cyanotypes, Eikoh Hosoe, Helen Levitt, Atget, and Wright Morris. Recently, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions, including Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, and A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA. Her work has been published in the periodical History of Photography and is forthcoming in Art Journal.