Armando Miguelez is a multi-national artist currently based in Mexico City. Although he has created projects throughout Europe and Latin America, Waypoint:Marfa will be his first exhibition in the United States. Miguelez’s practice is focused around issues of mobility, structures, and borders. In the past Miguelez’s work has predominantly taken the form of large-scale installations comprised of hoses, networks of copper pipes, or blocks of melting ice suspended from the ceiling. More recently he has been producing a series of drawings that he creates by tracing maps of cities that he has either lived in or visited. Each drawing is comprised of a grid of smaller drawings which he makes as he travels throughout the world. As such, these drawings not only trace the residual markings of the urban structure of a city, but also map his own movement and experiences through these places. For Waypoint:Marfa Miguelez has focused in on a more regional urban situation, that of the Juarez/El Paso structure.

    Karen Schiff is an artist, historian, and professor of architecture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Architectural College. Her work focuses on the residue that is left behind either in the construction of a building, the formulation of pop-music rhythms, or the memory of beloved individuals. In the past her work has taken the form of large-scale rubbings as a means of creating a presentational expression of the context in which they are shown. For Waypoint:Marfa, Schiff will be showing a recent body of work based on the obituaries of acclaimed minimalist painter Agnes Martin. Schiff velum tracings register life's fragility as they mimic Martin's palette and techniques. The results are delicate memorials to a monumental aesthetic sensibility, rendered in the visual language of newspaper design. While they present a minimalist-like aesthetic, they also trace the map of those who supported Martin’s work around the world.