Artist Arleene Correa Valencia has emerged as an exciting Bay Area artist exploring some of the most challenging personal and political subjects in contemporary life.
Born in Mexico and now living in the Napa Valley, Correa Valencia creates paintings, textiles and drawings that reflect on patterns of migration and family separation. Her recent work in “Naces Asi, Naces Prieto. No Naces Blanco / You Are Born Like This, You Are Born Brown. You Are Not Born White,” on view at Catharine Clark Gallery, is inspired by the letters she wrote to her father as a child, during a period of separation when he had migrated to the United States while she remained in Mexico.
Correa Valencia’s visual language considers the politics of visibility and the complexities of undocumented immigration. Correa Valencia is also one of the featured artists in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial exhibition, “Bay Area Now 9.”
Correa Valencia will be in conversation with Chronicle arts and culture writer Tony Bravo at Catharine Clark Gallery, where they will discuss the work on view and her larger creative practice. The exhibition will be on view until Nov. 4.