Maria Vasquez Boyd - Resquache  (9.30.26 - 11.29.26)
First Friday Reception: 10.2.26 & 11.6.26, 5 p.m.

Resquache is a way of life, a perspective on living. It’s the Kroger’s coffee cans filled with kalanchoes on my Grandpa’s porch, the butter tubs in Mom’s fridge now filled with frijoles she cooked earlier, the same but different. For many generations, we understood it as survivalist mode, making the most from the least.

Look up the term resquache, you’ll find, numerous articles written by scholars, and museums celebrating artists interpretations such as San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum. In an article written for Artnews, Maximilíano Durón announced that May 16, 2025, “Rasquachismo has officially entered the art historical canon.”

So. Resquache has many meanings that are up for discussion and for me, I have lived it. The work I present here, has a history of something becoming something from something else. New work, painted over from old work is new again. Revisited old work once seen in a different space, now resides in a new space seen with fresh eyes. See what I did there?

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- Maria Vasquez Boyd