Conversations with Artists | Adán Vallecillo

Conversations with Artists | Adán Vallecillo

Vallecillo makes site-responsive and research-driven projects, many of which think about political economies and the natural world. Trained in visual art and sociology, Vallecillo considers the connections between abstraction and daily experience in his work, untangling the visual and historical relationships between Central America and the West. Within the legacies of extraction and exploitation embedded in Modernism, Vallecillo’s work finds a poetics of the quotidian. “Very simply, I try to facilitate these mediating encounters between material resources and symbols, in order to provoke changes in how we make sense of both the beauty and imperfections of the world,” he writes.

Date:

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Format:

6:00pm-7:30pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum