05/12/2026
✨ | Guadalupe Maravilla with Emery Blagdon: The star exploding in the body
This exhibition brings together, for the first time, the work of Emery Blagdon and Guadalupe Maravilla—two artists devoted to healing through art.
Blagdon’s "Healing Machine" channels unseen energies through handmade materials, while Maravilla’s sculptures and sound-based "Disease Throwers" draw from his migration story and Indigenous practices.
JMKAC will bring together these two bodies of work. Central to the exhibition will be Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, a school bus that has been reimagined as a healing temple. Throughout the exhibition, the healing machines will be activated by Maravilla and various other healers, playing the sculptures to turn on and amplify the energy in the gallery—transforming the space into an immersive healing environment.
Simultaneously, a selection of Maravilla’s Disease Throwers will be installed with elements of Blagdon’s “Healing Machine” at the Art Preserve.
⟶ Learn more about the exhibition:www.jmkac.org/exhibitions/ or with link in bio.
📷 (1)(2)(3) Emery Blagdon, "The Healing Machine" (site detail, interior, 1979), Garfield Table, NE, c.1955-1986. Photo: Sally and Richard Greenhill/ Alamy Stock Photo. (4) "Guadalupe Maravilla, Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana (installation view), P·P·O·W, New York, NY, March 1 – April 6, 2024. Courtesy of Guadalupe Maravilla and P·P·O·W, New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography. (5)(6) Guadalupe Maravilla, Mariposa Relámpago (detail), 2023; bus, volcanic rock, steel, and objects collected from a ritual of retracing the artist's original migration route; 110 x 108 x 420 in. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago, The Contemporary Austin – Laguna Gloria, 2024. Courtesy the artist and P·P·O·W, New York. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein.
