jeffREY miranda
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Jeffrey Miranda was born in 1981 at the border of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez. A grandchild of a Mexican peasant family that migrated to the Southwest Rio Grande Valleys of U.S. during the Bracero Programs in the 1960s. Miranda grew up as a 2nd generation Chicano excelling in art and world history. Miranda studied Medical Illustration at Southwestern Medical School, Dallas TX. before obtaining an MFA in Art and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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Miranda’s artwork rises to show a critical view of social, political, and cultural issues on the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. As a native to the borderland region, Miranda’s artwork explicitly sets out to codify current events affecting its people engaging subjects as diverse as the immigration movement, the immigration work force, and the ‘drug war’. Miranda has established a graphic vocabulary he has develop into descriptive illustrations whose themes are combined into visual mural like installations that often feature mundane cultural, domestic memorable’, cultural icons and historical references. These are most often juxtaposed with whimsical objects, fantastical inventions often synchronized in a mannered repetition layered into collage like compositional narratives.
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