To celebrate the opening of his new exhibition, Memories of the Future, at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), Native American painter Esteban Cabeza de Baca will talk about his work on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the museum.
The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is requested at eventbrite.com.
According to SLOMA, “In his work, Cabeza de Baca employs a broad range of painterly techniques, entwining layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. His influences range from petroglyphs, from which many of his motifs derive, to Jackson Pollock, who, the artist notes, was in turn influenced by Navajo sand painting. ‘I want to excavate the impact of colonial acts like that,’ he notes. ‘To go farther with the drip than Pollock did and collide the infinite with the everyday.'”
Many of his works examine agricultural labor and human rights. March to Sacramento, for instance, depicts Delano grape workers and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
His exhibition opens on Friday, Feb. 21, with a reception scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Δ
This article appears in Health & Wellness 2025.