Salvador Jiménez-Flores
Artista con el nopal en la frente / Artist with the Cactus on the Forehead,
2019
El surgimiento de una nueva realidad /The rise of a new reality, 2019
Existimos en el futuro / We Exist in the Future,
2019
Cast Iron and Brass
18 x 18 x 7 inches
24 x 24 x 3 in.
22 x 22 x 4 in.
Created in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry Program
Courtesy the artist and the Collection of Kohler Co.
Images: Brian Pfister / Sculpture Milwaukee
Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist whose studio practice encompasses community-based work including drawing, ceramics, printmaking, and mixed media sculpture. His work examines the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness, addressing issues of colonization, migration, “the other,” and representation. The works on view in this exhibition (produced during the artist’s participation in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry program) address the desire to create a new space, a new reality, and new futures in the face of socially and politically challenging times; something Jiménez-Flores uses his position as a working artist as a platform to inform and generate community discourse around.
Milwaukee Institute of Art + Design
Riverwalk between Water Street & Young Street, Third Ward
273 E Erie St, Milwaukee, WI 53202