observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
“This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.” –Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Indeed, as Jane Jacobs argued in 1961, what makes a city great is the […]
In their first exhibition of this work in Tijuana in April of 2013, photographers Anthony Paul Marchetti and Laura Migliorino continue in the tradition of a number of Tijuana and San Diego artists who have focused on the innovative methods of “construction by necessity” in Tijuana’s colonias. This new show […]
In the poorest colonias along the border in Tijuana, everywhere there are traces of ingenuity and the sparks of creativity born of necessity. This is the vision Maria Teresa Fernandez brings us in her new show at Art Produce Gallery on University Avenue in North Park. “Architects by Force” documents […]
