Welcome to Xali Studio by Álvaro Daniel Márquez
I am a multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and cultural strategist with 20+ years experience in education, nonprofits, and the arts.
I work to advance equity and justice by building systems and programs for students and artists.
I create art and research that helps us understand the role art plays in creating a more just world.
Based In Tovaangar (Los Angeles County) - on the unceded lands of The Tongva, Kizh, Gabrielino, Acjachemen, and Chumash
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My Art practice integrates printmaking, installation, and mixed media.
While I am a printmaker at heart, I am not interested in always following the established rules of traditional printmaking. Instead, I find ways to connect printmaking with contemporary art discourses in order to carve new directions in what we think of as print-based work.
Art as Social Inquiry
Making As a Way of Thinking
My interdisciplinary art practice examines the long history of displacement in the Americas, starting with Indigenous dispossession and genocide to current issues around gentrification, immigration, policing, and homelessness. I see my work as a critical reflection on the commodification of land as private property and the issues that arise out of this. I articulate these subjects through printmaking, installation, mixed media, and sculpture, to highlight the social construction of space and the ways that race, class, and gender have shaped our contemporary urban environment. I am particularly interested in creating work that exists in the intersections between theory and praxis, articulating a visual form of knowledge production.
