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Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month. Let's examine this work by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, whose work is about traversing borders.⁠
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In tapestries like “Planetary Expedition, Undocumented,” the artist explores the lived experiences of her own childhood along the US-Mexican border. Her family of agricultural workers would regularly move between their two houses in the aptly compounded cities of Calexico, CA and Mexicali, Baja California. ⁠
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Alongside her signature use of barbed wire—interwoven rather than as a line of separation—Underwood weaves planets with alternating areas of opacity and translucency from other commodities such as silk and copper. ⁠
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“The work was about the Earth splitting in half with Venus and Mars watching,” said the artist. ⁠
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On view in You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Included with free admission. ⁠
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Images: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood. “Planetary Expedition, Undocumented” (installation view and details), 2024. Originally commissioned and produced by Artpace San Antonio. Photo credit: Constance Mensh. taken in The Fabric Workshop and Museum by @cju.art.threads

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EL GRITO‼️Wednesday, September 16‼️. San Antonio, TEXAS @ruizhealyart. @jenniferlingdatchuk by @cju.art.threads

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I am thrilled that the American Craft Council has awarded me the Gold Medal Award for Craft Excellence. The journey to Minneapolis was the best. Dr. Karen Mary Davalos provided Velina and I shelter AND a day at the state fair! Dr. Mary Thomas also drove us around to see the sites where the anti Ice protesters stood their ground.
Thank you Dr. Mary Savig! You were inspiring! #marysavig #karenmarydavalos #marythomas #seedart by @cju.art.threads

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I am so lucky to be surrounded by so many strong women who get it! So honored to be showing @ruizhealyart with Consuelo @cju.art.threads in NYC AND San Antonio. I barely got through this exhibition deadline because no matter how much you plan or work ahead, when your baby gets sick, that becomes the priority. I think our whole family has been sick with new school germs the whole month of August and into September. Excited to see newer works that were realized in this weird menopausal post partum haze that celebrates the power of our bodies while forming a new self. It’s about the matrilineal and couldn’t be more thrilled to share this space with Consuelo. I am so lucky to call her mentor, friend, and an artist I am so lucky to know! Repost from @ruizhealyart
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Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present All That Before Us: Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, a two-person exhibition at our New York City gallery. All That Before Us will be on view at our New York City gallery beginning this Thursday, September 10, 2026. The exhibition will be on view until November 27, 2026.

Please join us for an opening night reception this Thursday, September 10, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. To RSVP for our opening night reception, please email patti@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.

Dachuk’s series “my neck, my back” speaks to growth and transformation: fruits and vegetables maturing for harvest, and the simultaneous physiological and emotional changes women and children undergo during pregnancy. From seed to soil, from infertility to fertility, from the ways we carry life to the labor and care that follow. Cast from an antique Chinese ceramic pillow—once used to preserve elaborate hairstyles overnight—these porcelain baby forms evoke the quiet labor that props up wealth and status. Reimagined here, they bear the weight of Asian women’s work, smiling as they kneel, backs burdened.

Artwork: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Hard Day’s Work (abundance), 2024, Porcelain pillow form, 11k gold luster, 6.5 x 7.75 x 4.5 in., 16.5 x 19.7 x 11.4 cm taken in Ruiz-Healy Art by @cju.art.threads

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Join us for a celebratory evening. I am thrilled to be exhibiting with Jennifer. She is authentic, intense and incredibly knowledgeable and loves to create. Come see our latest handwork. The image is a detail of…Galactic Penitentiary Blues, 2026. #ruizhealyart #jenniferlingdatchuk by @cju.art.threads

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Gallery artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is proudly featured in “Handwork: Handcrafted Objects that Made America”, created in partnership with Craft in America to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary. As the official book of a year-long national initiative,”Handwork: Celebrating American Craft”, the publication offers a celebration of America’s spirit through ordinary, surprising, and overlooked handcrafted objects spanning more than 250 years. Handwork journeys through time and across the multiplicity of cultures that have made America, uncovering the powerful stories behind objects that shaped American life. As a contemporary craft artist, Jimenez Underwood is featured as a maker who continues prioritizing and redefining the handmade, renewing the rebozo in her work, Inside the Rain Rebozo. We’re grateful to @handwork2026 for highlighting the remarkable work of CJU. #handwork2026

After a six-year drought ended in Jimenez Underwood’s home state of California, she began this playful rebozo following the rain’s journey. At the top is a colorful depiction of the heavens, similar to what can be found in Mother Rain Rebozo. Below, the rain falls in a rainbow of zig zags, mimicking sunshine hitting water and bringing the sound of wind chimes to mind. Inside the raindrops is a kaleidoscope of colors. The rain illuminates Californian terrain, transforming the land from dull to brilliant shades of pink, blue, green, and gold.

Artwork: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Inside the Rain Rebozo, 2017, Signed, titled, and dated (on a cotton label affixed to the reverse), Woven tapestry, Wire, linen, miscellaneous threads, and cotton fabric, 48 x 20.5 in., 121.9 x 52.1 cm

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219. by @cju.art.threads

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Consuelo Jiménez Underwood’s “Planetary Expedition, Undocumented” tapestry was created at Artpace San Antonio in 2024. At the invitation of curator Su Wu, the work traveled to the Dallas Contemporary in 2025 for the exhibition “You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry.” The exhibit is now at the historic Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA. It will be on view until January 3, 2027.

Named after a Franz Kafka letter where he imagines his father’s presence woven across a map, the exhibition “You Stretched Diagonally Across It” exceeds fixed latitudes. It tests boundaries between art and craft, perception and tactility, and tradition and improvisation. Guest curator Su Wu posits that tapestry inextricably links an image with its substrate, offering a unique opportunity to reconsider material significance and the relationship between surfaces and structures in a screen-mediated world. .
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Exhibiting artists: Caroline Achaintre, Yto Barrada, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Jovencio de la Paz, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Sanaa Gateja, David Hartt, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, Sanam Khatibi, Alicja Kowalska, Tomasz Kowalski, Candice Lin, Goshka Macuga, Christy Matson, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Rosalena, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, Kiki Smith, Mika Tajima, Qualeasha Wood, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.
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Grateful to @imrevolting for her vision in putting this exhibition together. .
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@ruizhealyart is excited to feature Consuelo @cju.art.threads and Jennifer Ling Datchuk @jenniferlingdatchuk at our galleries in San Antonio and New York City in September. taken in The Fabric Workshop and Museum by @cju.art.threads

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Kira went to the exhibition opening at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia. YOU STRETCHED DIAGONALLY ACROSS IT: CONTEMPORARY TAPESTRY, curated by Su Wu, originally opened at the Dallas Contemporary, and traveled to Philadelphia. The work was about the Earth splitting in half with Venus and Mars watching. Some undocumented barbed wire seem to have escaped the end……the process was fun and challenging. Weaving a dense universe with translucent planets!🪐💫🕸️ #kiradominguezhultgren #planets #space #weaving by @cju.art.threads

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Join us TODAY at 4:00 PM ET for Textiles & Tea, featuring Consuelo Jimenez Underwood! Sponsored by Robbie LaFleur (robbielafleur.com) and the Norwegian Textile Letter (norwegiantextileletter.com). See you there!

📍 Tuesday, June 23
🕓4:00 PM ET
🔗https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M0e_29a1QY-6G5vk-T27FA

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was born in Sacramento, California, the daughter of migrant agricultural workers, with a Chicana mother and a father of Huichol Indian descent. Crossing borders and negotiating between three perspectives has always been central to her identity and creative process. Her work ranges from delicate miniature tapestries to monumental fiber and mixed-media installations that juxtapose the natural beauty and ecological destruction along the U.S./Mexico border. Underwood has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally for more than forty years. Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. (Photo Credit: Portrait, Dena Porter)

Textiles & Tea is a weekly artist interview series, hosted by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., featuring fiber artists from around the globe.
🔗https://www.handweavers.org/textiles-and-tea

#fiberartistlife #TextilesAndTea #FiberArtistInterview #FiberArt #ChicanaArtist #WeaversOfInstagram #IndigenousArt #SFMOMA #SmithsonianArt #ConsueloJimenezUnderwood by @cju.art.threads

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Join us next week for Textiles & Tea, featuring Consuelo Jimenez Underwood! Sponsored by Robbie LaFleur (robbielafleur.com) and the Norwegian Textile Letter (norwegiantextileletter.com).

📍 Tuesday, June 23
🕓4:00 PM ET
🔗https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M0e_29a1QY-6G5vk-T27FA

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was born in Sacramento, California, the daughter of migrant agricultural workers, with a Chicana mother and a father of Huichol Indian descent. Crossing borders and negotiating between three perspectives has always been central to her identity and creative process. Her work ranges from delicate miniature tapestries to monumental fiber and mixed-media installations that juxtapose the natural beauty and ecological destruction along the U.S./Mexico border. Underwood has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally for more than forty years. Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. (Photo Credit: Portrait, Dena Porter)

Textiles & Tea is a weekly artist interview series, hosted by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., featuring fiber artists from around the globe.
🔗https://www.weavespindye.org/textiles-and-tea

#fiberartistlife #TextilesAndTea #FiberArtistInterview #FiberArt #ChicanaArtist #WeaversOfInstagram #IndigenousArt #SFMOMA #SmithsonianArt #ConsueloJimenezUnderwood by @cju.art.threads

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This flag was made with stitched and over dyed kitchen cloths from my kitchen. When I see the night skies, I see the border state flowers hovering above, free and undocumented. 🎆💫🤗. #ruizhealyart #sjmuseumofquiltsandtextiles #quilts #stitch #flag by @cju.art.threads

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The beautiful work of gallery artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, “Cara Cara Flag,”is on view at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of their exhibition ‘Visions of America,’ on view through August 14, 2026.

‘Visions of America’ features a core experience designed to inspire curiosity and offer a high-level introduction to 5 centuries of American art through the Crystal Bridges collection. Organized into five thematic sections, We, Dreaming, Nature, Making Our Mark, and We the People, the Visions of America Galleries take quests on a journey reflecting on American people.

We are delighted that “Cara Cara Flag” is included in the exhibition. The work was originally commissioned by the Alturas Foundation, in collaboration with Ruiz-Healy Art and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. The work was generously donated by Candace & Michael Humphreys to the museum and selected by Jen Padgett, Windgate Curator or Craft. taken in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art by @cju.art.threads

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