Reg/ina Gutierrez is a Sculpture graduate from RISD and Filipino Grillz-maker native to New York with a studio practice based in the heart of Olneyville. They are currently an Artist in Residence with Dirt Palace, doing a Work Exchange at the Wedding Cake House. Their brand, Immortalize Your Mouth, recalls ancestral practices in respect to the land and metal—synthesizing cultural motifs from individual histories while celebrating this form of Black culture and practice of grillz-making in America. Their art maps the past hidden in the present, providing a space for mediation in cultural memory, and catharsis as a method for re-embodiment. Scaled between precious metals fit to the mouth and immersive, modular murals— Regina’s work is a meditation on the smiles that line a lineage as they navigate their own familial landscape and work to honor those of others.
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