Join us for an exhibition walkthrough and discussion of “Veni, Vidi, Vici” led by artist Griselda Rosas and curator Claudine Dixon.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles invites you to join us Saturday, February 7th, from 2-3 PM, for an exhibition walkthrough of Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici, with the conversation led by artist Griselda Rosas and LACMA’s Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Claudine Dixon. Refreshments served with thanks to Topo Chico. We welcome you to arrive early to enjoy refreshments and view the exhibitions. The walkthrough will begin promptly at 2 PM.
About The Exhibition
Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici, is on view from January 10 through February 28, 2026. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and follows her inclusion in the 2025 California Biennial at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art.
Griselda Rosas’ exhibition, Veni, Vidi, Vici, presents multidisciplinary works that resist binaries, inviting viewers into layered allegories, histories, and personal experiences. Using a wide range of materials and methods—faux ostrich skin, recycled grain sacks, embroidery, watercolor, and large-scale, charcoal on paper drawings—she highlights the tensions between play, intimacy, and the narratives we inherit. The exhibition’s title, “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” meaning “I came, I saw, I conquered,” adapts the historic Latin phrase to recall both its military origins and its contemporary use as a declaration of individual triumph, prompting a reflection on histories of domination and the enduring influence of victory-driven language in shaping culture and identity.
Inherited memory, themes of nurture and intergenerational exchange emerge through Rosas’ response to her son Fernando’s drawings. Rosas enlarges and transforms these sketches into monumental, often monstrous, mixed media or charcoal renderings—a process that echoes the distortions and shifts in perspective that shape stories of war as they are retold across generations. As a single parent and cross-border commuter, she extends this inquiry by examining gendered expectations and the culture of warfare embedded in toys marketed along rigid gender lines, revealing how commercial design naturalizes militarized play and scripts early performances of masculinity. Her ongoing research, spanning precolonial toys to contemporary political tensions and liminal border spaces, underscores the persistent entanglement of conflict, storytelling, and the materials of childhood.
Rosas’ works reclaim the language of conquest through a distinctly intersectional feminist lens. Her embroidery becomes a mode of historic correction—repairing, revising, and subverting colonial visual language—while her textiles function as repositories of Indigenous knowledge often omitted from written archives. By drawing from maternal labor, intergenerational storytelling, and the material culture of play, Rosas challenges the social and geopolitical frameworks that naturalize domination. Veni, Vidi, Vici is thus transformed from a declaration of victory into an inquiry: who authors history, and how might those narratives be rethreaded toward repair?
About The Speakers
Griselda Rosas is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working between San Diego, CA, and Tijuana, MX. Her practice—spanning textile art, drawing, sculpture, and installation—employs decolonial strategies to examine the visual legacies of colonialism, cultural hybridity, and care/labor across the U.S.-Mexico border. In response to colonial strategies still present in contemporary art—such as cultural appropriation, exoticism, and historical erasure—Rosas reclaims materials, symbols, and techniques rooted in Indigenous knowledge and familial memory, creating works that assert presence, resistance, and care.
Rosas holds an MFA in sculpture and a BFA in printmaking, both from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, where she teaches. Solo exhibitions include Donde Pasó Antes (Where it happened before), Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (2024), Yo te cuido at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (2023); Forged Dialect, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA (2022); and Regata Abscisa, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (2020). Selected group exhibitions include The California Biennial, UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Costa Mesa, CA (2025); Stories from My Childhood, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL (2022); Cannon Gallery Ninth Invitational exhibition, Carlsbad, CA (2022); First International Festival of Manuports, Kohta, Helsinki, Finland (2021); and San Diego Art Prize Exhibit, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA (2020); among others. Rosas’ works are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, AltaMed Art Collection, and numerous private collections.
Claudine Dixon has worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in the Department of Prints and Drawings since 2012, first as the curatorial administrator for the department, subsequently as the curatorial assistant from 2017 to 2023, and as of November 2023 as an assistant curator. Her participation in exhibition development and implementation is complemented by actively working with donors and supporters to augment the collection. At LACMA, she co-curated the 2024-2025 Art Bridges Local Access touring exhibition with LACMA colleague Eve Schillo, entitled “Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture,” which toured to the Riverside Art Museum; the Art Gallery at California State University Northridge; the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster; the Millard Sheets Art Center at the Pomona Fairgrounds; and the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. In 2017, she co-organized the LACMA exhibition, “Looking Backward, Stepping Forward” with works from the Prints and Drawings collection and the Rifkind Collection of German Expressionist Art. Prior to her arrival at LACMA, she worked at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA / Hammer Museum as a curatorial associate. During her tenure at the Grunwald, she wrote for various exhibition publications and frequently participated in public speaking engagements on various works in the Grunwald Collection, the Armand Hammer collection of European painting, and the Hammer Contemporary Collection. She has taught numerous European art history courses at UCLA Extension, the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, and the Riverside Art Museum. She holds a Master’s Degree in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor of Arts in Design from the University of California, Los Angeles.
