David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce América sin Fronteras, an exhibition of new and recent work by Chilean artist, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra – her fourth at the gallery. On view from March 15 through April 28, the presentation will include significant drawings and three-dimensional works that testify to the artist’s vivid imagination and also the introduction of a monumental new scale into her practice.

Vásquez de la Horra (b. 1967) has become known for her deeply personal works in which she deploys a technique wherein graphite drawings are sealed over with a translucent wax “skin”, imbuing her compositions with a sense of historicity and corporeal fragility. The artist’s unique understanding of the world has been fertilised by a deep engagement with an expansive array of belief systems, both from her native Latin America and across the globe. The powerful images that inhabit her works are the result of a spontaneous and unconscious channelling of memories, metaphor, and spiritual imaginings.

The present exhibition demonstrates Vásquez de la Horra exploring the further limits of her imagination, as she takes the viewer on a journey into far flung universes, through mountain ranges, deep underwater, and finally, into the afterlife. The titular work, América sin Fronteras, 2017, a mythical seven by five foot drawing, portrays two manifestations of Mother Earth, whose recumbent body seamlessly merges into the landscape. From inside her a young boy is birthed, and armed with a bow, he goes off to hunt.