May 2025 / Borderlands
Noelle Mason, Ground Control (El Paso/Ciuidad Jaurez)
hand woven wool
96" x 120"
2014
Marcus DeSieno, Unknown Migrant, Male, Cause of Death Blunt Force Injury –Multiple Severe Injuries to Head, Torso, and Extremities, Their Body Was Found Less Than One Day After Death, Arizona
Archival Pigment Print (Scanned Lith Print Made from a Wet-Plate Collodion Negative)
14”x18”
2023
Borderlands
Marcus DeSieno
Noelle Mason
May 01 - 31, 2025
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 01, 5-8pm
Spring Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm
Borders are not static lines, but rather complex, shifting spaces of power that extend beyond their physical boundaries. In the exhibition Borderlands, artists Marcus DeSieno and Noelle Mason interrogate the complex political and social narratives that run through and from the US/Mexico border, a site where histories of migration and national identity converge. Both artists explore the ways in which borders act as more than geographic markers—they are sites of exclusion, control, and resistance.
DeSieno uses the landscape as a conduit to speak to the history of white supremacy that has shaped our immigration policies in this country as he documents migrant deaths in the American Southwest. Mason’s work questions the ways in which surveillance technologies serve to dehumanize our perception of undocumented immigrants – transforming these technological images through a vast array of processes and materials.
Together, their works create a multifaceted dialogue on the intersection of physical and psychological borders, and the ways in which borders shape our understanding of migration, nationalism, and control within the United States.