Amigos de la Granja Nadando El Rio Grande (Farmyard Friends Swimming the Big River)
Artist:
Michael Menchaca
(American, born 1985)
Date: 2012
Medium: Screen print
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 43 1/4 in. (66.7 x 109.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Ricardo and Harriett Romo
Object number: 2013.15.41
Markings: AP (lower left corner)
Copyright: © Michael Menchaca
Label Text
This print employs the language of graphic novels and comics to depict an embattled American space. In San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca’s work, migrant cats cross a river, some sinking, others clutching farm tools. Migrant cats are a feature of Menchaca’s index of animal characters, which they attribute to the neighborhood stray cats they grew up with in San Antonio and to a desire to flip the power dynamics of depictions of migrants.
(Yinshi Lerman-Tan, 2020)
(Yinshi Lerman-Tan, 2020)
Not on view
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