PSA:’s 8th installation at 2222 Chippewa is going up this weekend (🤞🚫❄️) and we’re so excited to present new work by artist José Garza. Keep a look out! — José Guadalupe Garza was born along the Mexico/US border. He’s a St. Louis-based artist working in traditional and new media who draws inspiration from wide ranging cultural and subcultural sources. These include cinema, popular music, literature, metaphysics, and Rasquachismo. Garza has incorporated and subverted the tropes of DIY and lo-fi aesthetics in his work. The rapid and sometimes low-budget quality of their production is evident across his multimedia practice. Other projects have taken the form of curated exhibitions and screenings, ad hoc libraries, performances, and collaborations. Garza’s use of appropriated images, ready-mades, found footage and sound are exercises centered in nostalgia used to unravel and rethink the American mythos. Currently, he’s the Museum Academic Programs Coordinator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, is a part-time faculty member in Photography at Saint Louis University, and serves on the boards of the Tarble Arts Center and Latinx Arts Network. Before deciding on a full time career in visual art and education, Garza served in the US Navy for eight years. — #publicart #artinstallation