EventsThe New Social Environment#1318

Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Pollinators

Featuring Cabeza de Baca and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Thursday, February 12, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Esteban Cabeza de Baca joins Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez for a conversation on Zoom.

In this Talk

Visit Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Pollinators on view at Garth Greenan Gallery, New York through February 21, 2026 →

Esteban Cabeza de Baca

Working primarily in painting, Esteban Cabeza de Baca approaches his work with the aim of bringing awareness to marginalized people and places. The landscapes he depicts are painted from nature, infused with layers of memory and time. Employing a broad range of painterly techniques, Cabeza de Baca entwines layers of graffiti, observational painting, and pre-Columbian imagery to confound Cartesian single-point perspective. The artist’s hybrid techniques and influences form a complex braid, interrogating the dialectical relationships between colonialism and its critique, between cultural extraction and its inversion.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Photo by Michael Marcelle

Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.

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