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Pete Hoffecker Mejía’s work assembles indigenous patterns of Latin America, retail and home décor motif, and Modernist geometric abstraction, to explore the intersection of contrasting cultural influence, the mediation of identity, and conflation and caricature in the representation of otherness.

His structures investigate the blurred points of contact resulting from estrangement, while also looking at hierarchies of representation, and the continuing impacts of colonialism.

His work has appeared in print and online magazines including, New American Paintings, Create! Magazine, and Peripheral Vision Press. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. He received his BFA from the University of Memphis and MFA from Indiana University.

* studio visit and photos by contributor Tracy Treadwell