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15th Young Latino Artists: Consensus of Taste

Presented by Mexic-Arte Museum at Mexic-Arte Museum

July 16-August 29, 2010

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Curated by Claudia Zapata, M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, this exhibition features the current visual artwork of artists from the past fourteen YLA exhibitions. American art critic Clement Greenberg's paper “Can Taste Be Objective” suggests there is a “consensus of taste” in which disputed taste eventually is agreed upon by all parties. The curator utilizes this concept to showcase past YLA artists' current work and their development into professional visual artists.

In 1996, the inception of the Young Latino Artists exhibition resulted in one of the most highly anticipated annual traditions for the Mexic-Arte Museum. Originally, Sylvia Orozco, the Museum’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, based the YLA exhibition concept and structure after Mexico’s El Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven (ENAJ), an annual exhibition of selected artists 30 years old and younger working in all forms of media.

Since 1966 (when ENAJ was founded), this Aguascalientes-based exhibition has provided an invaluable forum for young Mexican artists to present their work. Aspiring to achieve similar programming success – and with the additional objective of creating a forum for Latinos to gain museum experience as curators and visual artists – Orozco created the Young Latino Artists exhibition. Now in its fifteenth year, the current YLA exhibition looks back at previously selected artists’ and presents their current artwork as professional visual artists. YLA has become the most energetic exhibition of the season, challenging Texas Latino artists under the age of 35 to create their vision in an experimental reexamination of social and aesthetic norms.

YLA 15 artists are Jesus Benavente, Candace Briceño, Margarita Cabrera, Bobby Dixon, Santiago Forero, Eduardo Xavier Garcia, Ivete Lucas, Randy Muniz, Cruz Ortiz, Matthew Rodriguez, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Abel Saucedo, Vargas-Suarez Universal, David “Shek” Vega, and Jason Villegas.