NATALIA ANCISO
AN AMERICAN ARTIST
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FROM THE BORDERLANDS TO THE BAY
WORKS BY SERIES | FLORA AND FAUNA
(2013)
Flora and Fauna is a series of visual narratives focusing on events occurring in and around the Borderlands. Each piece is drawn on graphite and colored pencil, and showcases flowers indigenous to the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and Northern Mexico.
Flora and Fauna made its debut in the solo exhibition titled, Studio 24 Presents: Natalia Anciso, at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco. Civil (2013) was on view at the States of Mind online exhibition, a project by Berlin-based Refrakt and Tony Grayson. The entire series was recently on view at the Spanish Market Group Show, a two-person show with artist, Andrea Vargas, at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM and at Natalia Anciso: ASPIRE | ASPIRAR at the O'Kane Gallery of the University of Houston-Downtown.