Jackie Amezquita

Current Work

Gemidos de la Tierra

Germidos de la Tierra is an installation piece that integrates two Lists of Deaths in ICE Detention Centers between 2003-2017 and 2018- October 2021. I used acquired soil to reembody the names of the deceased.

Beyond the Limits of Confinement

It’s a time-based installation piece made out of fifty-one copper plates. A single plate measures 12″L x 12 W”. Each plate confines a diversity of local and imported produce from Central and South America.

Proclamación, gatherings 1 to 4

Soil of 36 Los Angeles neighborhoods, cal hidratada (hydrated lime), corn masa, various culinary dishes, food items, copper and walnut wood.

Sortilegio 1

Soil from the border that connects Tijuana -Baja California, Mexico and San Ysidro California, cal hidratada (hydrated lime), corn masa, screws, wood, plywood, gypsum board.

Sortilegio 3

Soil of the 2,000 mile long border that connects Mexico and the US, cal hidratada (hydrated lime), corn masa, screws, wood, plywood, gypsum board

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Bio

Jackie Amézquita (b. 1985) is a Central American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Amézquita was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and migrated to the United States in 2003. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design and an Associate degree in Visual Communications from Los Angeles Valley College. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the New Genres program at the University of California, Los Angeles (2022).