Present and Growing

Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery
February 13–August 23, 2026
A green baseball cap sculpted to look like a cactus, complete with bumps and small patches of gold. The cap rests on dark soil against a light blue background, appearing as if it is growing from the ground.

Gabriel Garcia Roman, Cactucha, 2023, Ceramic with steel pins, 7 x 11 x 7 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

In the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery, Gabriel Garcia Roman will present his solo exhibition Present and Growing. Featured in this exhibition are not only the artist’s best-known portrait series, “Queer Icons,” but also a range of his works that capture his experiences as a queer Mexican-born artist from a working-class family. Roman expands the portrait beyond the photograph in his crafting of objects and textiles. Present and Growing looks to the nopal, known in English as the Prickly Pear Cactus, as a motif of resilience and beauty in unfavorable conditions.

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