Harris works directly with fabric, allowing cloth to register handling, repetition, and the accumulated codes that settle into cloth over time.

Manfredi extends a painterly lineage of bold brushwork and nuanced edge into a desert-informed vocabulary

The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is proud to present Cut / Woven / Spoken, featuring a thoughtprovoking body of work by UCSC Art Department Alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza. The artworks featured in Cut / Woven / Spoken locate Agüero-Esparza within a small group of diasporic artists that choose abstraction, over figurative depictions of their cultural identities, as fundamental expressions of their explorations and creative freedom.