Liz Cohen is work is currently on view at MoCAD in Detroit in a solo exhibition and a series of her work is also on view and the newly opened Cheech in California.
MoCAD
Liz Cohen investigates transcontinental trade, industry, and labor movements across economic systems. Cohen’s exhibition, Café Pan-Soviético Americano, is an emerging body of work involving the adaptation of a Soviet utility vehicle, which through its coffee service celebrates the robust heritage of workers, specifically the women who have harvested crops for generations. The exhibition invites viewers into Cohen’s research on coffee production–one of the world’s oldest and most valuable commodities produced mainly in the Global South.
The Cheech
The first major art exhibition to examine influential works that foreground the Brown body as a site to explore, expand, and complicate traditional conceptions linked to Mexican, Mexican American, and Xicanx experiences launches its national tour at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum on June 17, 2023. Organized by The American Federation of Arts (AFA), Xican–a.o.x. Body weaves a rich tapestry of diverse media, from the late 1960s through today, including Lowrider cars, poetry, pottery, painting, photography, sculpture, and film. Consisting of approximately 125 artworks by about 70 artists and artist collectives, Xican–a.o.x. Body will be on view at The Cheech in Southern California through January 7, 2024.
