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The next Window Dressing installation is up now.
Amy Zapata
BODEGONES AND STREET LIGHTS
Feb 8 – Feb 21, 2026
In many urban and industrial regions throughout Southern California, especially those inhabited by Black and Brown communities of color, the local liquor store often becomes both a touchstone and lifeline. These family-owned local tienditas, like the well-known bodegas on the East Coast, supply underserved communities that are regularly overlooked and ignored by larger commercial interests, providing everyday essentials from clothes to medicine, from household items to party supplies, and, of course, food and drinks, even if only the hyper-processed variety. Often, they provide more than just material goods too; they also provide community, serving as a central hub where otherwise disconnected community members can interact. Histories of racist redlining and the way freeway construction frequently segregates formerly-integrated neighborhoods from one another, has made these local stores all the more significant over time. For her Window Dressing installation, BODEGONES AND STREET LIGHTS, photographer Amy Zepata presents a simulated version of the familiar retail displays found at so many of these little local shops, complete with the usual assortment of potato chip bags, candy bars, sex pills, lottery tickets, and beer bottles. LED lights, mimicking neon signage, illuminate these quotidian commodities, many of which are replicated only as photographs, a playful nod to the historic genre known as bodegón, a hyper-realistic painted still life from 17th century Spain and Mexico, in which objects like uncooked food, kitchen utensils, and various other household items are presented in a formal arrangement.
Amy Zapata is a photographer, installation artist, and documentary filmmaker working between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Her film, Genderfuck, won the Best Documentary at IFF in 2024 and she has served as an Artist-in-Residence at Arquetopia in Puebla, Mexico, since 2022.
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