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“LA FUENTE DEL DESEO” EXPLORES CULTURAL IDENTITY & MATERIAL CULTURE THROUGH JEWELRY-INFLECTED WORKS OF ART

April 17, 2024

This summer, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) presents La Fuente del Deseo (The Fountain of Desire), the first, institutional solo exhibition of work by Georgina Treviño, an interdisciplinary artist and metalsmith from Tijuana, Mexico, based in San Diego, California. Treviño’s expansive approach to adornment combines art jewelry and sculptural traditions with the vernacular material culture, architecture, and norteño music of the Mexico-United States border. The artist occupies a radical peripheral space, both in regional perspective and artistic discipline, which allows her to deftly traverse various realms of creative production, ranging from cast-silver jewelry and tableware to custom wearables for celebrities and industrially scaled sculpture. Her oeuvre is centered on transforming everyday scenes of the world around her–from the hand-painted signs of joyerías and carnitas ricas trucks to the chewing gum covering the border wall and glinting pennies resting at the bottom of plaza fountains–into jewelry-inflected works of art.

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4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance. 

Free Admission

OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 10 AM – 5 PM

4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance. 

Free Admission

OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 10 AM – 5 PM

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