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Xochi Solis
Rivers of Our Vision

Rivers of Our Vision exhibits new work by Austin-based artist Xochi Solis. Constructed from a variety of media, Solis uses found imagery, vinyl, plastics, paint and colored paper to create large site-specific paintings with repeated ellipses and gestural paint strokes. Solis positions the nuances of transitory emotional states as central to her current body of work. Fascinated by the universal claims of love and loss in popular music, she contemplates desire, disappointment and love: “I let each work remark upon a private narrative, focusing on the personal navigation of an emotional state,” Solis comments, “It is a curious notion that any given circumstance can emotionally affect a group of people in a disparity of ways or perhaps even more curious in identical ways.” Extending the experiential impact of the exhibition’s large-scale wall paintings, Solis invites the public to use the exhibition as a backdrop for a listening and lyric reading Record Swap party hosted one Saturday during the run of the exhibit. Solis intends to build resonances between the color and construction of the installation with events and experiences.

Rivers of Our Vision aims to create an enveloping environment, creating a viewing space for meditating on feelings and the unity and isolation felt from daily existence.

Xochi Solis is a painter living and working in Austin, Texas. In addition to her studio practice, she is also the Director of Events and Public Programming at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.F.A in Studio Art from the University of Texas in 2005. Concentrating on painting during her undergraduate career, she gained experience and insight by a semester abroad in Tuscany, as part of UT’s College of Fine Arts Study in Italy program, as well as a semester in Mexico City. In 2011, Solis exhibited a solo project at SOFA Gallery entitled “All the Clouds Turn to Words”. Her group exhibitions include the 2008 edition of “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch” at the Austin Museum of Art, and the “13th Annual Young Latino Art Exhibition” at Mexic-Arte Museum. Previous to her work at the University of Texas, she was the Executive Director of the 2009 Texas Biennial and is currently an active member of MASS Gallery, an artist run project space in East Austin. xochisolis.com