Edgar Fabián Frías

Title: “Nuestrxs Antepasadxs Nos Hablan Directamente (Our Ancestors Speak Directly With Us)”

On View: December 4 2019-February 4 2020

Work Description: This image is a portal and a spell. Meant to reawaken our psychic awareness of the abounding ancestral and spiritual support that surrounds us. Honoring the sacred ancestors of the Wixárika: Kauyumari, Hikuri, and Maíz. They surround an image of myself. Dissolving the boundaries between myself and the enveloping spirit beings. Endlessly emanating energies of dissolution and interstitial reciprocality.

Bio: Edgar Fabián Frías, MA MFT is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixárika) and Latinx interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. Their work traverses academic, social, historical, and relational planes, building bridges and weaving webs. Their practice is amorphous and expansive, rooted in multivalent forms of connection and in the magic that emerges from it. Born in East Los Angeles, Frías earned dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio art from the University of California, Riverside and completed an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Consequently, Frías’ work is often collaborative and engages with the intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of consciousness and the continuing effects of colonial and patriarchal structures on the health and resiliency of marginalized communities. Their work has been shown at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Vincent Price Art Museum, Human Resources, Machine Project, SOMArts, ESMoA, Recess Gallery, Pieter Performance Space, and PAM Residencies. Frías is currently participating in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

Artist’s Website: www.edgarfabianfrias.org

Work Location: 1348 E 6th St.