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David Zamora Casas describes his life/art practice as a conscious, radical decision to create and move forward dialogue that strives for an inclusive, eco-friendly, empathetic world: “This is my spiritual ritual honouring my culture and family,” he says. He is a painter, performance activist, and installation artist who has engaged audiences under the pseudonym Nuclear Meltdown since 1985.
Casas’s work draws on his queer creative energy, featuring his refusal to be marginalized by mainstream, conservative, heteronormative systems. His practice is also informed by the experience of living in the US-Mexico borderland of Aztlan, and presents layered manifestations from a Joto Tejano, American-Xicanx perspective. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz describes Casas’s art as “images shaped from the cultural experiences and the mind of a gender-bending, unapologetic Chicano gay activist from South Texas.”
He is an award-winning autodidact multimedia genderfluid man focusing on LGBTQ+ and all marginalized communities. Eminent scholar Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto beautifully summed up his life when he observed, “Once, his grandmother advised that he must always do what is just and necessary, ‘lo que es justo y necesario,’ an admonition that became the artist’s core value in his quest for making a living and making a life through art.”
2022
David Zamora Casaa
Digital video, electric candles, paper, feathers, wood and photographs | Video digital, velas eléctricas, flores, papel, plumas, madera y fotografías
Video by Resident Films | Video por Resident Films
Collection of the artist| Colección del artista
2022
David Zamora Casaa
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas |Técnica mixta y acrílico sobre tela
121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 in)
Collection of the artist | Colección del artista
Photo courtesy of Al Rendon | Imagen cortesía de Al Rendon
2014
David Zamora Casas
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas |Técnica mixta y acrílico sobre tela
121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 in)
Collection of Mary Jane and Michael Imbimbo | Colección de Mary Jane y Michael Imbimbo
Photo courtesy of Al Rendon | Imagen cortesía de Al Rendon
2022
David Zamora Casas
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas |Técnica mixta y acrílico sobre tela
121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in)
Collection of the artist | Colección del artista
Photo courtesy of Al Rendon | Imagen cortesía de Al Rendon
We asked the artist to share their favourite things | Le pedimos a cada artista que comparta sus cosas favoritas.
