Mark Menjívar’s work explores diverse subjects through photography, stories and found objects while emphasizing dialogue and collaboration. Credit: Courtesy Image / Mark Menjívar
San Antonio-based visual artist Mark Menjívar interrogates models of art as social practice and participatory education, creating multiple frameworks for critical discourse.
Harnessing oral histories, archives and producing publications on a variety of subjects including the effects of state-sanctioned violence, his work endures long after physical installations come to an end.
Menjívar’s latest exhibition, “Murmurations,” which opens this Friday at the Contemporary at Blue Star, functions like a mid-career survey, sampling the past 20 years of various long-term projects.
Menjívar has presented his work at El Museo del Barrio (New York), Rothko Chapel (Houston), Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Ithaca), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Puerto Rican Museum of Art and Culture (Chicago) and Sala Diaz (San Antonio), among other venues.
“Murmurations” will run through Sunday, May 3.
Free, opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday, noon-8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Contemporary at Blue Star, 116 Blue Star, (210) 227-6960, contemporarysa.org.
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‘Murmurations’ at the Contemporary at Blue Star, functions like a mid-career survey, sampling the past 20 years of various long-term projects.