Prairie Benefit Auction

André Magaña (b. 1992) is an artist based in New York. His work explores utilitarian materials and their potential as corollaries for post-colonial power relationships. Working with contextually loaded materials, his work creates gestures that reveal their embedded subtexts as instruments of social and political control. Magaña’s research focuses on geopolitics, production, and surveillance since the 1980s. He is interested in the impacts of accelerated free trade on economic, ecological, and social balances.

Magaña has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions at Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY; Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, Switzerland; King’s Leap, New York, NY; Prairie, Chicago, IL; Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR. Recent group exhibitions at PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK; in lieu, Los Angeles, CA; Magenta Plains, New York, NY; SculptureCenter, Queens, NY; SORBUS, Helsinki, FI; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; American Medium, New York, NY; and Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY, among others. His work has been featured and reviewed in Art In America, ArtForum, New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and CULTURED Magazine. 

Links:
https://andremagana.com/
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