Curator and Artist Tour

Demetri Broxton is a mixed media artist of Louisiana Creole and Filipino heritage who was born and raised in Oakland, CA. His textile sculptures reflect his connection to the sacred art of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the beading traditions of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, and his love of hip-hop and graffiti. Broxton holds a BFA with an emphasis in oil painting from UC Berkeley (2002) and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University (2010). His work has been exhibited internationally and most recently at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (2019), UNTITLED Art Fair (2020 & 2021), and Kala Art Institute (2021). His work is held in several private collections and the permanent collection of the Monterey Art Museum. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Arleene Correa Valencia is a multidisciplinary and community-oriented native Mexican artist living and working in Napa, CA. Correa Valencia investigates various ethical, political, and aesthetic strategies in her practice to address the effects of our current socio-political and ecological climate on undocumented communities in the U.S.

In 2020 Correa Valencia completed her MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She was featured in the Emmy award winning “Portraits of Napa Workers: Arleene Correa Valencia,” part of KQED Arts’ Represent series of artist profiles. She is a recipient of Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals and is one of four children originally from Arteaga, Michoacán, Mexico. Her family migrated to the United States in 1997 and made a home in California’s wine country, Napa Valley.

Livien Yin (b. 1990) is a visual artist living on Lenape land in Brooklyn, NY. In their work, Yin researches Chinese migration histories to paint speculative portraits. Enlisting close friends, loved ones and self-portraiture, Yin centers their subjects as agents in shaping collective memory. Their Paper Suns series is inspired by the Chinese-born “paper sons and daughters” who used forged identification papers to enter the US during the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943). The fictional portraits use historical photos to reimagine “paper” identities amid the limitations of the time. In the absence of preserved records, Yin works from these gaps to visualize scenes where desire, refusal and moments of possibility set the tone.

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