Mercedes M. Teixido

A visual artist, Mercedes Teixido works in the arena of abstract watercolor drawings, improvisational drawing, letter writing and site-specific works. She has performed with her writing machine—modeled after Thomas Jefferson’s polygraph (a device that allowed him to write letters in duplicate)—at such events as the Emerge Arts Fair in Washington, D.C. and the Black Mountain College Conference in Asheville, N.C.

She also has a pedagogical interest in introducing improvisation into the liberal arts and in bringing experimental art practices to students in her courses.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Kamikaze, The “L” Word,” (Solo Exhibition), Post Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011

"Small Facts and Fictions," Solo exhibition, Cherry Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000

"Instalacion," Solo Exhibition, La Manzana de la Rivera, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1999

"The Burden of Big," Installation, Solo Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1997

Selected Group Exhibitions

“Looped Video Curation: Performance Art For the Camera,” Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke MA, 2013

“Das Wird,” Sheffield England, 2012

“Withdrawn,” International contemporary drawing exhibition, Budapest, 2010

“Fair Exchange,” curated by Irene Tsatsos LA County Fair, Millard Sheets Art Gallery, 2006

“Components,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, 2003

"Terra Firma," The Guard Shack at Bergamot Station, Curator Jennifer Katel, Los Angeles, 2000

"Love Letters," Installation, Solo Exhibition, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, 1998

"Scale: Relatively Speaking," Art in General, New York City, 1998

"Two Person Exhibit," Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, 1998

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