New Ruby City exhibition celebrates landmark 1996 show by art luminary Frances Colpitt

Adding another voice to the chorus paying tribute to the late art-world powerhouse Frances Colpitt, Ruby City’s exhibition “Synthesis & Subversion Redux” takes the original spirit of Colpitt’s historic 1996 show “Synthesis & Subversion” and wrings new life out of it. Nearly 30 years ago, “Synthesis & Subversion” sparked conversations about the new direction of Latino art and the radical approach a tight-knit group of artists took to identity, hybridity and intersectionality at the go-go turn of the century, when conceptual and minimalist currents reigned supreme. A new group of five San Antonio artists — Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas and José Villalobos — approach the original show’s borderland themes from a wildly different angle.