b chehayeb

gordita summer, 2024

b chehayeb’s gordita summer (2024) features several recognizable symbols—chones, stars, a red and white cooler, a glass bottle, a cigarette—floating across a dusty tan landscape with the patchwork blue edges of a pool. According to the artist, it’s a painting about the “sights n smells of a texas summer: fast food, coolers, and smoke, grass always haunted by body anxiety of course.” we went everywhere with the coolers: softball games, the horse races, a waterpark called NRH20 [featured in another painting from the tomboy tejano blues], six flags if we brought our own food, jarrito [a popular brand of Mexican carbonated fruit drinks], beer. the smell of a cigarette which was somehow always around. —b chehayeb

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