Front-era

Marta Palau’s mixed-media painting Front-era embraces ambiguity in its politicization of geopolitical borders. On which side of the border does her subject stand? Is the painting about longing or regret? How does Palau’s use of mixed-media impact and inform your viewing experience? Marta Palau’s home in Tijuana and her daily awareness of the border lend her work a deeply personal, if highly charged, stage for meaning-making.

[Madelyne Gordon, wall label for "Front Era," in 'Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged: Landscapes from Fisher's Permanent Collection," (Los Angeles: USC Fisher Museum of Art, January 22 - April 13 2019).