Exhibition: Re-Konztrukt - Women and Tools - Blanka Amezkua in Collaboration with Luis Sierra

Aug 22, 2026

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Exhibition Re-Konztrukt: Women and Tools presents Blanka Amezkua’s large-scale embroideries created from drawings provided by comic artist Luis Sierra. The work shifts from appropriation to active collaboration, using recycled Mexican “Sensacionales” imagery to challenge long-standing clichés around female identity. Embroideries are accompanied by small and large collages from the HAPPINESS IS... series, featuring handmade confetti, tissue paper, quilling strips, and papel picado. The show runs through Sunday, June 10, at Tikhonova & Wintner Fine Art in New York.

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Exhibition overview

Women and Tools series

Collaboration with Luis Sierra

HAPPINESS IS... collages

Artists' backgrounds

Blanka Amezkua

Luis Sierra

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Exhibition: Re-Konztrukt-Women and Tools , Blanka Amezkua in Collaboration with Luis Sierra [harlemonestop.com](harlemonestop.com/event/26374/exhibition-re-konztrukt-women-and-tools-blanka-amezkua-in-collaboration-with-luis)[/event/26374/exhibition-re-konztrukt-women-and-tools-blanka-amezkua-in-collaboration-with-luis](harlemonestop.com/event/26374/exhibition-re-konztrukt-women-and-tools-blanka-amezkua-in-collaboration-with-luis)sierra Through Sunday , June 10 Tikhonova & Wintner Fine Art , New York event_note schedule & tickets account_balance venue favorite add to favorites "Since the 1980s , adult comic books have been a great part of Mexican pop culture and cultural production. Targeting mostly the male working class , the “Sensacionales” or“Ghetto Librettos” as they are called in Mexico and the U.S. respectively , are a mixture of soap opera , fiction , romance , farce , thriller, melodrama and depictions of sex. Frequently , while flipping through their pages , one encounters the usual Western ‘traditional’ story: the submissive woman-almost always a bombshell – who is available for serving and ‘catering’to the sexual needs and desires of the aggressive male… Untitled ( Hammer) Embroidery on cotton fabric with Mexican lace 70 x 83" 2017 w/ Luis Sierra Blanka Amezkua has been using imagery from various recycled “Sensacionales” in her art for many years now , putting their visual vocabulary at her service and appropriating the genre to convey her messages. Like Roy Lichtenstein , who extensively borrowed his subject matter directly from comic books for his paintings , Amezkua adopts the Mexican picture stories as a backbone for her mixed media works to comment on longstanding clichés about different aspects of female identity. The artist intervenes , appropriates , andreworks the images through the use of domestic techniques such as embroidery and crochet." text: Vassiliki Vayenou For her current series of nine large-scale embroideries , Re-Konztrukt: Women and Tools, Blanka invited noted comic book artist Luis Sierra to provide the drawings that she would then render as embroideries. Collaboration has replaced appropriation , with exuberant success! Accompanying the embroideries are a selection of Blanka's joyous small and large collages from her most recent series: HAPPINESS IS... using a variety of papers such as handmade confetti , tissue paper, quilling strips , and the papel picado traditionally used in Mexican celebrations. HAPPINESS IS... \# 1 Paper collage; 12 x 12 in. , 2017 (with detail) Blanka Amezkua was formally trained as a painter. She studied in Florence , Italy , and received her B.A. from California State University Fresno. Her work and projects have been shown in the United States , Mexico , Belgium and Greece at MoMA-P.S.1 , Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts , El Museo del Barrio , Queens Museum of Art, Towson University , Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco , Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana ( MACLA) , Casa John Spencer, and The Taller Boricua , among others. Luis Sierra is an SVA alumni , born in Puerto Rico , and raised in the South Bronx. He trained under Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman , among others. His specialties are mainly horror, sci fi and fantasy , but he also illustrates other genres , such as crime stories or comedies. Gallery hours by appointment. Museums & Galleries Central Harlem Schedule & Tickets Through Sunday, June 10 · add to calendar today 2018-05-30 09: 00: 00 2018-06-10 17:00: 00 America/New_York Exhibition: Re-Konztrukt-Women and Tools, Blanka Amezkua in Collaboration with Luis Sierra [https://www.harlemonestop](https://www.harlemonestop).com/event/26374/exhibition-re-konztrukt-women-and-toolsblanka-amezkua-in-collaboration-with-luis-sierra Tikhonova & Wintner Fine Art, 40 West 120th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY Plan Your Experience | Tours Mailing List Signup! favorite Favorites
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What is Re-Konztrukt: Women and Tools about?

It showcases Blanka Amezkua’s large-scale embroideries based on drawings contributed by comic artist Luis Sierra, reworking Mexican “Sensacionales” imagery to address clichés about female identity.

How did Amezkua and Sierra collaborate on the artwork?

Sierra provided the comic drawings, and Amezkua rendered them as embroideries. The document emphasizes that collaboration replaces simple appropriation.

What other artworks are included besides the embroideries?

Alongside the embroideries, the exhibition presents a selection of collages from Amezkua’s HAPPINESS IS... series, created with materials such as handmade confetti, tissue paper, quilling strips, and papel picado.

Aug 22, 2026

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