‘Smoke’: Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo

For Smoke at Frieze London 2024, parrasch heijnen presents a cross-generation exhibition of new adobe – a building material made from earth and organic materials – and soot-based works by Christine Howard Sandoval in conjunction with select mixed media sculptures by Linda Vallejo from the 1980s and early ‘90s. 

Howard Sandoval’s work explores contested places, such as the historic Native and Hispanic waterways of northern New Mexico, the Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site in New York and an interfacing suburban wildland in Colorado.

Vallejo reflects on cultural memory, knowledge and her experiences of Latinx, Chicanx and American Indigenous culture and communities.

About Christine Howard Sandoval

Christine Howard Sandoval (b. 1975, Anaheim, USA) is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. She is a member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield. Her work challenges the boundaries of representation, access and habitation through the use of performance, video and sculpture.

About Linda Vallejo

Linda Vallejo (b. 1951, Los Angeles, USA) received her MFA in Printmaking from California State University, Long Beach in 1978. In 1973, Vallejo was one of the early art teachers at Self-Help Graphics Barrio Mobile Art Studio, an arts non-profit primarily serving the Latino community of East Los Angeles with arts education, printmaking and support, and acting as an incubator of the Chicano art movement. Exploring relationships to nature and the spiritual legacy of her Mexican heritage, Vallejo creates works diverse in technique and style using a variety of media.

Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo are presented by parrasch heijnen at Frieze London 2024.

Further Information

Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024, The Regent’s Park, 9 – 13 October 2024.

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^{Main Image: Christine Howard Sandoval, Untitled, 2024. Adobe on embossed paper, 61 × 46 cm. Courtesy: the artist and parrasch heijnen}