ReflectSpace is hosting a solo exhibition of first-generation Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño through Feb. 1. Born, raised and educated in California, Castaño’s work reflects her experience as the daughter of immigrants – iterative, interdisciplinary – moving drawings and paintings from the two-dimensional flatness of paper or canvas to digitally printed fabric, to videos that incorporate animated drawings, to furniture pieces, to nail decals featured within the larger context of a video.

In Viajero del Tiempo/Time Traveler, Castaño draws on her late father’s photographic archive – comprising 4,000 photographs, films, and videos – to consider the fragility and ephemerality of memory and identity. The pictures in the exhibition are juxtaposed next to drawings of the landscape (inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s landscapes and botanical studies) to consider how the land figures in the trajectory and memory of the migrant/immigrant.

The exhibition will include archives, mixed media work as well as work from Castaño’s “Future Ruana” series that is named after the humble woolen poncho worn in the Andes and used as a multipurpose, utilitarian object. 

Complementing Castaño’s work, the PassageWay will feature photographs by young women from the Las Fotos Project – an organization that elevates the voices of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth from communities of color through photography and mentoring. Viajero del Tiempo/Time Traveler is curated by Ara and Anahid Oshagan.

  Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Craft Contemporary and the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions LACMA and the 56th Venice Biennale. Castaño is a professor of drawing and painting at Long Beach City College and holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA.

Exhibiting artists will participate in an artist talk on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m.; more information can be found at ReflectSpace.org.

ReflectSpace/Glendale Central Library is located in the Glendale Central Library at 222 E. Harvard St. in Glendale.