For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Verónica Gaona will be joined by writer and curator Alex Santana. Gaona will present on her practice and speak with Santana about her interest in the relationships between architecture, truck culture and migration. They will also discuss the ephemeral material and spatial transformations produced and accelerated by migration and remittances. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Based in Houston, Texas, Verónica Gaona is a Mexican American artist from Brownsville, Texas, a city along the United States-México border. Her work incorporates the perspectives of displaced and exploited communities, highlighting aspects of the diaspora such as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence. Gaona’s practice challenges traditional approaches to memorialization and seeks to subvert established power structures. She has exhibited work at Presa House Gallery, San Antonio; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, all in Texas; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, México. Her work will be included in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York, this fall. 

Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. She has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans; Mana Contemporary, New Jersey; and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at New York University. 

This program is supported by Vision Fund; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request. ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.