These works are maximalist, celebrating visible, queer, and conscientious life with a studied virtuosity that responds to the clarion call of Sylvester’s notorious falsetto.

Harris works directly with fabric, allowing cloth to register handling, repetition, and the accumulated codes that settle into cloth over time.

Manfredi extends a painterly lineage of bold brushwork and nuanced edge into a desert-informed vocabulary

The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is proud to present Cut / Woven / Spoken, featuring a thoughtprovoking body of work by UCSC Art Department Alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza. The artworks featured in Cut / Woven / Spoken locate Agüero-Esparza within a small group of diasporic artists that choose abstraction, over figurative depictions of their cultural identities, as fundamental expressions of their explorations and creative freedom.