cosmovisión — marcus zúñiga

Marcus Zúñiga cosmovisión
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California
Curated by Heber Rodriguez

May 16 - August 30, 2026

Marcus Zúñiga: cosmovisión, on display in MOAH’s South Gallery, presents recent sculptural installations by artist Marcus Zúñiga that feature mica—a silicate mineral that naturally separates into thin, light-transmitting translucent layers—as their central component. Shown together for the first time, these installations reveal Zúñiga’s meticulous experimentation with a fragile material considered sacred by the artist and many Mesoamerican cultures. Inspired by the use of mica in Teotihuacan's underground chambers to simulate starlight, each installation is a meditation on forms that divine our location in the cosmos, connect the ethereal and earthly, and propose spiritual healing and ancestral remembrance as needed responses to our many contemporary crises. The sculptural installations will be exhibited alongside new photographs that capture the celestial passage of time and a site-specific installation in MOAH’s Jewel Box Gallery.

even the light must pass away, 2026, light, acrylic on wood

left to right: atl (trecena de la lluvia), 2025, photograph, 30×48in; lejos (afelio), 2025, photograph, 48×30in; photosphere, 2025, light, mica, acrylic on ponderosa, 48x46x46in

lejos (afelio), 2025

atl (trecena de la lluvia)‍, 2025

brown archaeoastronomy, 2025, light, mica, ponderosa, acrylic, 93.25x34x76in

left to right: nemontemi (cinco días intercalares), 2026, photograph, 48×30in; seeing environment, 2024, light, acrylic, aluminum, mylar, ponderosa, 65.5x38x25in (light source); cosmovisión, 2026, light, mica, acrylic, ponderosa, 32.5x30.25x4.5in; brown archaeoastronomy, 2025

nemontemi (cinco días intercalares), 2026‍ ‍

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cosmovisión, 2026

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seeing environment, 2024, light, glass, acrylic, mica, wood, 65x30x30in (beam splitter), 64.5x26x26in (mica sphere)

seeing environment, 2024, detail

e‍ven the light must pass away, 2026

e‍ven the light must pass away, 2026, detail