Julio César Morales: Invaders | Phoenix Art Museum

March 1 - August 4, 2019

Julio César Morales: Invaders, installation view, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2019.

Julio César Morales: Invaders features work by the 2018 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient, Julio César Morales, who is known for exploring the movement of people, narcotics, contraband, and American popular culture across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Featuring multimedia installations, mixed-media drawings and paintings, and photography, the mid-career survey depicts life along the border without adopting a moral position, instead capturing people as they are, living in a liminal space where there is no right or wrong, only tactics of survival. Invaders includes new and recent pieces by Morales, whose past works are featured in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Art Museum (Calif.), Deutsche Bank, The Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.), and Pérez Art Museum Miami (Fla.), among others.