As we step into 2025, life in the United States feels precarious. Climate disasters escalate, social progress faces setbacks, and nostalgia permeates our digital spaces, pulling us toward an idealized past rather than a hopeful future. This exhibition reflects on that shift—how memory, media, and culture shape our collective perception of time, and what it means to contemplate what came before in a moment when looking ahead feels so perilous.

In this exhibition, the six young, emerging artists, Cheyenne Amaya, Cecilia Sierra, Bygoe Zubiae, Magaly Cantu, and Ella Brenzel are working across an array of mediums, favoring a material-based approach to their practice. Many of the exhibiting artists are exploring their own memories through form, material, or concept, often intermingling varied approaches. Ella Brenzel attempts to recapture hazy memories of her childhood through paintings on fabric, while Cecilia Sierra’s installation-based works are a method of capturing her own memories in addition to those of her maternal line. In contrast, artist Cheyenne Amaya creates ethereal creatures made of ceramic to capture and hold onto the fleeting highs and lows of her bipolar disorder.

Through these personal explorations of memory and time, the featured artists demonstrate that these investigates are a creative act, one that can transform individual experiences into shared understanding and help us find our bearings in an increasingly destabilized world.

Cheyenne Amaya
Cheyenne Amaya is a visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Her work consists largely of painting, ceramic, and multimedia sculpture that explores mental health and spirituality through animal and abstract forms. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a concentration in ceramics and is a current resident artist at Thrown Studio.

Ella Brenzel
Ella Brenzel is a Panamanian-American visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Ella is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in painting and textile art. She explores the tactility of fiber, specifically in domestic spaces. Ella intertwines ideas of both the preservation of memory and the evidence of memory in her work. Ella questions how memory plays into her identity and how memory acts as pre existent truth. Ella is on track to complete her BFA, spending the 2 previous years in Chicago, Illinois.

Magaly Cantu
Magaly Cantú is an interdisciplinary artist based in the DFW metroplex. She works between traditional printmaking, painting, and expanded ceramic practices. Through the translation of familial relationships, personal memories, photographs, and daydreams. Magaly dissects experiences of girlhood as a Latina and the impacts of navigating in-between tradition and modernization. Magaly has shown work at Arts Fort Worth, 500X Gallery, the University of West Virginia, and the K Space Contemporary. She has recently earned her M.F. A specializing in printmaking, at the University of North Texas. Currently, she is working as an educator in higher education.

Cecilia Sierra
Bio coming soon.

Bygoe Zubiae
Bio coming soon.