Kinship: The Perspective of Place and Experience
March 7 – April 10, 2026
Kinship: The Perspective of Place and Experience is a two person exhibition that examines the deep connections individuals form with spaces and landscapes that shape identity and memory. Through printmaking, painting, and fiber art, the exhibition reflects on experiences across familiar and unfamiliar places. These works explore how people, nature, and culture intersect to create a sense of belonging, fostering kinship between communities across borders.
Karina Ramirez is a mixed-media artist exploring color and how it can express certain aspects of a composition. Karina received her B.F.A in Painting/Drawing and a Minor in Art History from the University of North Texas (2024) and is currently an MFA 26’ candidate at Southern Methodist University.
Yasmin Ramirez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores landscapes and environments shaped by memory and experience. Yasmin is currently a B.F.A. student majoring in Printmaking
and minoring in Art history from the University of North Texas (2026).
ALL-CITY DREAMS
March 7 – April 10, 2026
ALL-CITY DREAMS is a solo exhibition by Dallas local artist, Ray Albarez. The exhibition invites visitors into a fully immersive graffiti experience, transforming the gallery into a vibrant urban landscape where street art is not only legal but curated to perfection. This exhibition reimagines graffiti as a dynamic cultural force, blending two and three-dimensional works together that celebrate its visual energy and performative nature. At its core, the installation emphasizes community and highlights graffiti’s inherent role as a collective expression and a shared creative act that thrives in public spaces, inviting viewers to reconsider perceptions on the misunderstood medium. Ray Albarez, a self-taught artist from Dallas, Texas, has built a reputation as a graffiti artist, curator, and toy design engineer. Beginning his craft on city surfaces during high school, Ray later studied drafting in technical college but remained devoted to graffiti and painting. He co-founded the renowned Trigger Fingers event. His murals appear throughout the Dallas metroplex and internationally in London, Paris, and Spain.
On view at the Latino Cultural Center through March 30
There is a unique kind of creativity born from resilience; an ability to transform the ordinary into opportunity. For many immigrant communities, creativity is not only self-expression; it is a way to build livelihoods, strengthen community, and carry culture forward.
This spirit inspired Elevar La Cultura, a monumental, immersive installation by internationally acclaimed artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Standing over 20 feet tall, the work reimagines a Mayan pyramid constructed from everyday ice coolers; objects commonly used by street vendors across the country. Through this striking transformation, Marka27 blends ancestral symbolism with contemporary materials, inviting viewers to reflect on cultural continuity, adaptation, and creative resourcefulness.
The installation incorporates cultural textiles, spiritual objects, and mural elements, creating a layered environment that honors heritage while engaging with the realities of modern urban life. The coolers that form the structure become vessels of story and memory; carriers of labor, tradition, and aspiration, elevated into a powerful visual monument.
Elevar La Cultura is part of a traveling series of installations presented in cities across the nation. The Latino Cultural Center is proud to host this temporary exhibition and welcome the community to experience the work up close.
