David Zamora Casas

David Zamora Casas
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Notable workPortrait of a Burnout (1993), Love has no Gender (1993)
Styleperformance art, visual art
Websitehttp://www.davidzamoracasas.com/

David Zamora Casas (born 1960) is a Mexican-American visual artist, performance artist, and community activist based in San Antonio, Texas who has been active since 1985.[1] His work addresses his identity as a gay Chicano artist and explores themes of androgyny, queerness, and redefining traditional Mexican art.[2][3][4] Casas is a self-described "artivist" who creates paintings, installations, altars, and performance works.[5]

Chicano art scholar and specialist Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, who notably wrote about rasquache, described Casas's canvases as a "mix word and image to visualize autobiographical and universal stories of homoerotic love, loss and persistent social concerns including immigration, environmental plunder, gender disparity and the multiple issues facing marginalized individuals and communities."[5]

  1. ^ "David Zamora Casas". PechaKucha.
  2. ^ Summers, Claude (2012). The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. Cleis Press Start. p. 205.
  3. ^ Carlozzi, Annette Dimeo (6 July 1995). "David Zamora Casas". Artpace.
  4. ^ Olivo, Benjamin (2 July 2010). "Art from the heart by Zamora Casas". My San Antonio.
  5. ^ a b Rindfuss, Bryan (15 March 2019). "San Antonio Surrealist David Zamora Casas to Unveil 'Transcendental Tricentennial' at the Institute of Texan Cultures". San Antonio Current. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020.