André Magaña
b. Lagunitas, CA, USA, 1992Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
André Magaña’s work considers the use of materials, images, and signs used in the generation of capital under major global enterprises. He is interested in the technical, utilitarian, and operational aspects of production, maintenance, and growth of the post digital industrial economy. Magaña foregrounds his subjects’ inextricable relationship to capital and post colonial geopolitics, exposing highly specific systems as corollaries for far reaching power dynamics. He often creates work in dialogue with his own wage labor by utilizing or referencing economies of material which are embedded into his activities as a worker.
Magaña's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Riquísimo, was in February 2023. He has had solo exhibitions with Veronica (Portland, OR, USA); King's Leap (New York City, NY, USA); Prairie (Chicago, IL, USA); Amor Tlalpan (Mexico City), and more. He has been included in group and two-person exhibitions at Magenta Plains (New York City, NY, USA); PUBLIC (London, UK); American Medium (New York City, NY, USA); in lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA); Alyssa Davis (New York City, NY, USA), and more. He has been included in institutional exhibitions at Sculpture Center (Brooklyn, NY, USA) and the Zilkha Museum at Wesleyan University (Middleton, CT, USA).
He has been profiled in the Art and America New Talent Issue, Cultured, Artforum, LatinX Journal, ARTNews, The Brooklyn Rail, and more.
CURRICULUM VITAE. SELECT PRESS.
American Standard No. 2, 2024
Food waste disposers, goat milking device, modified 3L milk collection bucket, pvc pipe, silicone feeding teats and adapters, shower drains, flexible couplings, steel reducers, brass thread adapters, brass barbed hose attachments, triclamps, outlet splitter
35⅜ x 28⅜ x 25⅝ inches
90 x 72 x 65 cm
Untitled (Nesquik) (2 Up, Reverse Engineered Bottle Blowing Mold), 2023
Milled steel, brass, teflon
10 x 26¾ x 4 inches
25.40 x 67.95 x 10.16 cm
Caracetacocacola Pelocalabazapeyothurro, 2019
Chalk paint on 3D-printed thermoplastic
35.47 x 25.70 x 24.56 inches
90.09 x 65.28 x 62.38 cm
Tinacopan (Montón), 2019
Chalk paint on 3D-printed thermoplastic
27.12 x 21.96 x 11.60 inches
68.88 x 55.78 x 29.46 cm
Browntint No. 1, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in. (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
Browntint No. 2, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in. (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
Browntint No. 3, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in. (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
Installation view:
Riquísimo
Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CH
Installation view:
Riquísimo
Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CH
Untitled (Milo) (Rotary Mold for Industrial Production Line Cookie Production Machine), 2023
Steel, aluminum, Brass, teflon, bearings, custom steel mounting bracket 75 cm x 20 cm x 22.5 cm
29½ x 7⅞ x 8⅞ inches
75.00 x 20.00 x 22.50 cm
Untitled (Abuelita Hex Carton Die) (Custom Reverse Engineered Steel Rule Die for Abuelita Drinking Chocolate Packaging), 2023
Wood, Steel, Water Jet Cut Rubber Foam, Factory Hardware and Engraving, Hardware
30½ x 21¼ x 1½ in.
77.47 x 53.98 x 3.81 cm.
Installation view:
transversal, Veronica, Seattle, WA
Tracking fixture (inactive) (47.5771805, -122.2978799), 2023
Pan-tilt unit, concrete, hardware
53¼ x 14½ x 8½ inches
135.25 x 36.83 x 21.59 cm
Installation view:
transversal, Veronica, Seattle, WA
OS No. 2, 2023
Fiberglass, laser-sintered steel
7¾ x 44 x 8¾ inches
19.68 x 111.76 x 22.23 cm