aqui estoy by Gabe Medina

2026 

Stoneware, Earthenware,
Epoxy, High-temp Wire

15 x 15 x 3 inches

$555

Born and based in South Central Los Angeles, Gabe Medina is a Queer Mexican-American artist and community organizer. Working with clay, Medina's current practice explores cultural terraforming through the lens of queerness. Carving out space for queerness within inherited domestic and cultural traditions, Medina reimagines vessels and domestic forms as sites of both resistance and tenderness. Medina is currently Artist In Residence with Crafting the Future at Still Life Studios (2026) , Most recently, he was the Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, Washington (2025) and before that part of the Ellsworth Artist Residency at Art Share (2025). Medina’s selected exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2025), Residency Art Gallery (2024), Brea Gallery (2024), Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles (2024), The Mistake Room (2023), and South Gate Museum and Art Gallery (2023). As a community organizer, Medina has facilitated a variety of workshops from topics including queerness, community building, identity and ceramics. Medina received his B.A. in Studio Art from California State University Dominguez Hills (2023).