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Border Cantos: Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo

October 15–December 31, 2016

Second floor

This multidimensional collaboration between heralded photographer Richard Misrach and innovative artist-musician Guillermo Galindo examines the border between the United States and Mexico through a revelatory, humanistic lens. Border Cantos brings together Misrach’s often large-scale photographs with musical instruments that Galindo has created out of artifacts like clothing, shotgun shells, drag tires, and toys found along the border fence. These items, together with the sound and video installations of Galindo playing his instruments, evoke the raw authority of the wall while conjuring the quiet unease that suffuses the U.S. side of the border.

Exhibition Highlights

Richard Misrach

Cabbage Crop and Wall, Brownsville, Texas, 2015

Inkjet print

P2017.72

A color photograph of a vast cabbage crop next to the border fence dividing Texas and Mexico.

Richard Misrach

Home, Brownsville, Texas, 2013

Inkjet print

A color photograph of a small white house, trees in a well-manicured yard, and a tall fence at the back of the yard.

Richard Misrach

Wall, East of Nogales, 2015

Inkjet print

P2021.46.98

A color photograph of a dirt road that follows along a tall wall through rolling hills with mountains in the distance.

Richard Misrach

Agua #16, Carrizo Creek, California, 2014

Inkjet print

A color photograph of a white water storage barrel in a desert landscape, with mountains in the distance, at night.

Guillermo Galindo

Guillermo Galindo Playing The Angel Exterminador (Exterminating Angel)

Section of border wall, Border Patrol drag chain, wood blocking used in construction of border wall

A medium-skinned man with dark curly hair stands under two large pieces of metal with vertical slits in them/

Guillermo Galindo

Zapatófono, 2012

Shoe, gravel, wood handle, amplified wooden tray

A leather loafer with a piece of polished wood in it on a bed of gravel and parts of a jawbone.

Guillermo Galindo

Zapatello, 2014

Modeled after Leonardo DaVinci’s il martello a camme

A wood contraption that includes a hand crank that operates a lever with a shoe attached to it that will "stomp" on what looks like a rubber tire.

“Four art exhibits in Dallas-Fort Worth you must see right now, from Monet to 'Divine Felines'”

Dallas Morning News

November 5, 2016

All Exhibitions

Border Cantos: Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo was organized by the artists in conjunction with participating museums.