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Porfirio Gutiérrez is a California-based textile designer, artist, and natural dye expert who has studios in Ventura, California and in his hometown Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca where he specializes in the weaving traditions of his Zapotec community. Gutiérrez’s artwork explores the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and contemporary art practice that emphasizes the physical geography of the Americas and its impact politically, culturally, and artistically. His focus on revitalizing and preserving traditional Zapotec dye techniques has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University and he continues to use that knowledge to reinterpret traditional textile practices and materials in a modern context. He subverts the traditional weaving language, and reimagines Mesoamerican symbols and forms, morphing them into his textile designs to reflect the architectural spaces and the urban environments of his home in California. He comes from a long line of traditional weavers, and his art practice remains dedicated to preserving the deep knowledge and spiritual practices of his Zapotec ancestors. He grew up immersed in the colors of nature he found in the wilderness of Oaxaca’s mountains, and learned the sacred knowledge of medicinal plants. The intricate, geometric fretwork of the ancient ruin of Mitla, a sacred site for the Zapotec people, also informs the vernacular of Gutiérrez’s artistic symbolism. Mitla has been a touchstone for modern artists like Gutiérrez for generations. Gutiérrez points out that Josef Albers once said: “Mexico is a country for art like no other….the promised land for abstract art. For here it is already 1000s of years old.” Gutiérrez’s art practice maintains his ancestor’s spiritual belief in nature as a living being, sacred and divine and he moves freely across the borders imposed between his two countries, as his ancestors and many other Indigenous peoples have done for thousands of years. His designs draw deeply upon his experiences of these two cultures as he moves between the traditional and the modern, but always relying on the deep knowledge that has been shared by his ancestors for generations.
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