Opening Reception Adriana Corral & Maria Gaspar

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Saturday, August 22, 2026 1:00pm—4:00pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum FREE and open to the public Join us at Blaffer Art Museum for the opening reception of Adriana Corral: As Long As Life Endures and Maria Gaspar: We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain. Major support for these exhibitions and their programming at the Blaffer Art Museum come from the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston. About Adriana Corral: As Long As Life Endures: The Blaffer Museum at the University of Houston, in collaboration with the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (FAC), is honored to present Adriana Corral: As Long as Life Endures. In new bodies of work, Corral studies the relationship between protection and vulnerability, between resilience and change. Continuing her ongoing exploration of human rights, Corral argues that such fundamental rights are only inscribed into cultural practice in the aftermath of violence and devastation. That tension–between crisis and redemption–underscores the ways in which such rights are not promised or permanent, but always in need of expansion and defense. At the heart of Corral’s project is an investigation of the forces that shape how life—and whose life—is valued. Religion, law, and civic infrastructure each aspire to provide protection, yet their histories reveal persistent failures and exclusions. Learn more: https://blafferartmuseum.org/adriana-corral/ About Maria Gaspar: We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain: Maria Gaspar’s art, research, and activism engage with jails and prisons—their history, architecture, logic, psychology, and time. For the past two decades, Gaspar has focused on Cook County Correctional Facility, located in the Chicago neighborhood of Little Village, where she grew up. The largest single-site jail in the United States, the facility holds an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. Working both inside and outside of the institution, Gaspar has produced artistic…