Athena Calvillo is a Mexican American artist based in San Jose, California, who recently graduated from San Jose State University with a BFA in Spatial Arts.
My work is a retrospect of neglect, gender roles and growing up as a brown person. With ceramic in the side car, I examine and dive into the layers of hereditary conditioning. Growing up without structure meant long extensive nights of consuming media that reinforced my wide eyed reality. Piles of scrimped up media, clothing, stuffed animals, and things of childhood value built up and surrounded me like a blanket through the scary parts.