Reflejos Grabados is an exhibition exploring the evolution of Brown healing. The artist invites you to explore her Chicana experience in the Midwest through her works of awareness, rage, protest, and visibility. The showcase of the artist’s materials, inspirations, and artistry reflects her connectedness with her community. She argues this reflection is necessary for self-preservation and self-actualization. This is a declaration of an artist’s becoming.
This body of work is a direct response to the multi-generational lasting effects of historical displacement on Latines living in the United States. This is platformed by a combination of imagery that challenges the oppressor and simultaneously provides a sense of comfort to the oppressed.  How can these stories re-humanize Brown life and encourage the unlearning of harmful cycles caused by cultural displacement?  Can sharing these experiences be a vehicle for revolution but also allow the resting and healing of La Raza?

About the artist

Alejandra Carrillo is a multimedia artist based out of Indianapolis by way of Chihuahua, MX. Carrillo has a double bachelor’s degree in Printmaking and Art Education from Indiana University. She is a multidisciplinary printmaking instructor at the Indianapolis Art Center. Carrillo has earned awards from the 2023 El Paso’s Print Pachanga, Once: Emerging Artist Exhibition at Cleve Carney Museum of Art, the 2023 Manhattan Graphics Center, and the 100th Annual Hoosier Salon Juried Exhibition.

The exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Efroymson Family Fund, Ruth Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.