exhibition statement
between things sensed and things remembered is an exhibition of multidisciplinary work by Mexican artist Brenda Melgoza Ciardiello at the Artist Collective in the Dallas Galleria. This selection of original paintings, ceramics, and photomontages explores place as memory, material, and self motivated by the beauty of a life lived crossing borders and negotiating origin and belonging through a lens of displacement and cultural plurality.
Inspired directly by plants, landscapes, and fruits encountered on multiple visits to Coyoacán in Mexico City in 2023 and her residency in Crete, Greece in 2024, the artist uses abstraction and color to examine what it means to carry multiple places within oneself. Through metaphorical self-portraiture the work embodies the varying states of the self as it is reshaped over the years by the ongoing influence of movement, migration, and memory.
on view september 10 - november 8, 2026
DALLAS GALLERIA ARTIST COLLECTIVE FEATURE
Dallas Galleria, Level 1, 13350 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75240
between things sensed and things remembered
brenda melgoza ciardiello
first fruits, 2023 photomontage on archival rag paper on panel archival signed limited edition 1/10 22 x 30 inches framed: 27 x 35 inches $1,500
triptych: first fig, 2024 watercolor on opaque and transparent Yupo, sea water (Crete), two 11 x 14 panels, one 24 x 18 panel overall dimensions: 40 x 30 inches $2000
yes, he is my real peach (adopted peaches are real peaches too) (fruits 2), 2023 photomontage on archival rag paper archival signed limited edition 1/10 12 x 12 inches $200
ripe, juicy, good enough to eat (fruits 3) photomontage on archival rag paper archival signed limited edition 1/10 18 x 24 inches $750
a perfect flower (from the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked), 2024 wild clay (Crete), watercolor 5 x 8 x 5 inches $500
disfruto (disfruit) malus domestica, 2023 watercolor on Yupo on panel, spray paint 11 x 14 inches $750
absorption, fertility, the eternal, 2022 watercolor, soap, collage on Yupo 11 x 14 inches $350
ripe, out of season, 2024 wild clay (Crete), acrylic 9 x 6 x 10 inches $500
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond (, 2024 watercolor on Yupo on panel 24 x 18 inches $1000
it gives a lovely light (first fig), 2024 watercolor on transparent Yupo, 11 x 14 inches $500
frutos vacios, tripod 14 (i saw my life branching out before me like the green), 2024 wild clay (Agios Ioannis, Crete), terra sigillata (Thrapsano, Crete), watercolor, natural voids 12 x 6 x 6 inches $750
earthly paradise (after Bonnard), 2023 watercolor on yupo on panel 9 x 12 inches $500
we burst in the sun, in the hand, in the mouth, fruits within fruits within fruits, 2024 soda fired stoneware, watercolor (Maine) 6 x 6 x 7 inches $500"
it will not last the night (first fig), 2024 watercolor on transparent Yupo, 11 x 14 inches $500
primitive pomegranate (white), 2026, New Mexican white micaceous clay, fire, 7 x 5 x 5 inches
ripe, juicy, good enough to eat (fruits 3) photomontage on archival rag paper archival signed limited edition 1/10 18 x 24 inches $750
frutos de los veranos pasados (fruits of summers past), 2025 wild red clay (Crete), white Micaceous clay (New Mexico) 9 x 8 x 7 inches $500
pomegranate (origins unknown), 2025 stoneware, glaze (origins unknown) 6 x 5 x 5 inches $500
Papá, ya (papaya), 2023 watercolor on yupo on panel $500
a wild pomegranate in Maine II, 2024 soda-fired stoneware, Bucksport and shells (Maine) $200
milagros, 2023 - 2026 various clays from various places, primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches each, $150 (sold individually)
frutos, tripod 31, 2025 white micaceous clay (New Mexico) 12 x 8 x 8 inches $1000
frutos, tripod 19, 2024 micaceous clay, white (New Mexico), jacaranda flowers (Mexico City) 14 x 9 x 9 inches $700
Milagro Sketch 1, 2024 ink on paper 5 x 7 inches $100
Milagro Sketch 3, 2024 ink on paper 5 x 7 inches $100
Milagro Sketch 4, 2024 ink on paper, 5 x 7 inches, $100
milagro 39, 2023 New Mexican micaceous red clay and primitive fire, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 31, 2023 Not Mexican black clay, transparent glaze, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 29, 2023 Not Mexican terracotta and primitive fire, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 41, 2023 New Mexican micaceous red clay and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 15, 2023 Not Mexican black clay and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 17, 2023 New Mexican red micaceous clay and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 12, 2023 New Mexican white micaceous clay and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 20, 2023 Not Mexican terracotta and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 49, 2023 Not Mexican terracotta and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 16, 2023 Not Mexican terracotta, primitive fire, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 36, 2023 New Mexican micaceous red clay and primitive fire, plywood, 5 x 7 inches, $150
milagro 40, 2023 Not Mexican terracotta and primitive fire, plywood 5 x 7 inches, $150
if the environment does not begin beyond the skin of the living being, this is because the world is already inside it, 2025 red stoneware (origins unknown), white slip (unidentified), watercolor 19 x 11 x 1 inches $750