Exhibition featuring artist Julysa Sosa
Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio, TX | October 2, 2025 – February 22, 2026
Exhibition Dates: October 2, 2025 – February 22, 2026
Hours: Open Wednesday–Thursday, 10:30 AM–5 PM
Location: Centro de Artes Gallery, 101 S. Santa Rosa Ave, San Antonio, TX
About the Exhibition:
Presented by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture and curated by Bonnie Cisneros, Madre_Land: South Texas Memory & the Art of Making Home features twenty-six South Texas artists and scholars exploring domestic aesthetics, rasquache sensibility, ancestral healing, and the natural world.
About the Artist:
Julysa Sosa is a multidisciplinary Xicanx artist from South Texas, working across installation, photography, and mixed media. Their practice traces memory, explores healing, and reimagines ancestral ties that persist beyond borders and time.
Sosa debuts their first large-scale installation:
“Altar de la Recámara: Mujer, Ollin, Memoria” (The Altar of the Bedroom: Woman, Movement, Memory), 2025, Mixed media installation.
Artist Statement (excerpt):
“This work begins with the familiar form of the vanity table… reimagined as an ancient presence that resists capitalism’s theft of time. The vanity becomes an altar of reciprocity—where adornment, resistance, and visibility converge.”