In , Noel Mercado and Daniel Barragán closely examine the presence of the artists’ hand and the delineation of object and art through the conventions of craft and design. In Dr.Tomas Ybarra-Frausto’s “Rasquachismo: a Chicano Sensibility” he named the specific elements and impulses that define what he called rasquachismo’s “underdog perspective,” as an “attitude rooted in resourcefulness and adaptability yet mindful of stance and style.” In this exhibition both artists recontextualize iconography from their respective fields of interest in their efforts to approach the objecthood and histories of visual communication.Just Do It Forever

Barragán immortalizes and embeds a coded lexicon of images and text within ceramic vessels, sculptures, and paintings. By synthesizing icons from his own personal history and rock and roll imagery he explores the symbolism of cultural signifiers to further question the objecthood of these artifacts. With focus on the poetic reflection of the regional environment of the…