VIAJERO DEL TIEMPO/TIME TRAVELER Exhibition Presented by ReflectSpace

Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño‘s solo exhibition considers the fragility and ephemerality of memory and identity

ReflectSpace presents Viajero del Tiempo / Time Traveler, a solo exhibition by first-generation Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño that begins Saturday, November 15th at Glendale Central Library. Born, raised, and educated in California, Castaño’s work reflects her experience as the daughter of immigrants, iterative, interdisciplinary, moving drawings and paintings from the two-dimensional flatness of paper or canvas to digitally printed fabric, to videos that incorporate animated drawings, to furniture pieces, to nail decals featured within the larger context of a video.

In Viajero del Tiempo/Time Traveler, Castaño draws on her late father’s photographic archive comprising 4,000 photographs, films, and videos to consider the fragility and ephemerality of memory and identity. The pictures in the exhibition are juxtaposed next to drawings of the landscape (inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s landscapes and botanical studies) to consider how the land figures in the trajectory and memory of the migrant/immigrant.

The exhibition will include archives, mixed media work as well as work from Castaño’s “Future Ruana” series that is named after the humble woolen poncho worn in the Andes and used as a multipurpose, utilitarian object. Castaño reimagines the ruana as a metaphorical object with speculative implications like a magic carpet.

Elevating the voices of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth

Complementing Castaño’s work, the PassageWay will feature photographs by young women from the Las Fotos Project—an organization that elevates the voices of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth from communities of color through photography and mentoring. Viajero del Tiempo/Time Traveler is curated by Ara and Anahid Oshagan.Carolyn Castaño is a Los Angeles–based artist whose eco-feminist practice spans painting, installation, video, and artist books. Her work explores landscape, migration, and female and family identities through a blend of drawing, photography, and performance with patterns drawn from textiles, design, and geometric abstraction. Castaño is the recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the California Community Foundation and the City of Los Angeles.

Recent solo exhibitions include Craft Contemporary and the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions LACMA and the 56th Venice Biennale. Castaño is a Professor of Drawing and Painting at Long Beach City College and holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA.

Exhibition Dates:

November 15, 2025 – February 1, 2026  Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. There will be an Artist Talk with exhibiting artists will participate in an artist talk on Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM. For more information go to ReflectSpace.org. ReflectSpace / Glendale Central Library is located at 222 East Harvard Street Glendale, CA 91205.

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