Exhibitions

​ANDRES ARAUZ + ABBY MEYERS: BLEEDING TOGETHER

Crosstown Arts / 1350 Concourse Ave. May 30 - September 14th

Andres Arauz, Abby Meyers

In Bleeding Together, Arauz and Meyers bring their practice into the gallery and invite the viewer further into their collaborative process. Collages and poems are disassembled and presented as wheat-pasted wood panels, creating an intimate dialogue for the viewer to witness — imagining how these pieces are meant to fit together, what they might mean alone, together, in different arrangements. Bleeding Together explores what it means to coalesce and be vulnerable, to find community and tend to our wounds together.

A Correspondence is the name under which Andres Arauz and Abby Meyers make collaborative work, which primarily takes the form of wheat-pasted street art. Arauz is a first-generation Nicaraguan American born and raised in New Orleans, LA. He received a degree in graphic design from Loyola and a master’s in arts education from the University of Memphis, and currently works as an art teacher. Arauz specializes in photo collage, design, and photography. Meyers is a born and raised Memphian. She is a visual artist, a poet, and an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes including trauma, memory, and survival, particularly as it relates to sexual violence.