Alum Aida Lizalde (BA 2018) and photographer Jesse Vasquez, Art Studio photo and digital lab technician, are collaborating on “Binomial,” an installation composed of multiple sculptural works by Lizalde and a performative photo series by Lizalde and Vazquez. The work is on exhibition June 7 through 28 at Chandra Cerrito/Art Advisors in Oakland. 

Through the installation, Lizalde juxtaposes her own family’s generational trauma to the systemic trauma of colonization that indigenous people experience and mestizos are a product of. She uses the binary code and the Mayan numbers to represent mestizaje and a current post-structuralist experience of technology, communication and cultural identity.

The venue is located at 480 23rd Street in Oakland. The installation is by appointment at (415) 577-7537. There is an opening reception on Friday, June 7, 6-8 p.m.

Lizalde, a multimedia artist based in Sacramento, makes sculptures, installations and multi-media works which often include video. Her work has been exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Gearbox Gallery, the Museum of Northern California of Chico, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Beacon Project Sacramento, SOMArts South of Market Cultural Center, The Latino Center of Art and Culture of Sacramento, and Axis Gallery. 

Vasquez is an artist and photographer from Sacramento, CA. His work is mostly concerned with the human form – the ways and means of inhabiting a physical form which is continually influenced by intellectual, emotional and spiritual notions in the various societies we inhabit.