Open Studios

Lagos presents Open Studios by artists Carmen Neely, Edgar Picazo, Karla Silva, and Laura Turón from 5 to 9pm.

Laura Turón is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist, born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Acapulco, Mexico. Some of her most notable works include Unity, a public art sculpture created in 2021 for a roundabout in El Paso; Paradox Traveling Art, a mobile art gallery housed in a full-size converted school bus; and Paradox Immersive Art, a platform through which she curates exhibitions presenting her own work alongside that of invited artists. Turón’s art brings together concepts of time, exploring possibilities beyond the binary through large-scale drawings. In addition to her object-based practice, she is interested in collaboration and participatory art, creating immersive and interactive installations.

Edgar Picazo is an artist whose practice also encompasses curatorial work, editing, and cultural management. He is based on the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso. He is the founder and director of Azul Arena, an independent platform dedicated to contemporary art, knowledge production, and cross-border collaboration. His work focuses on art as a critical agent and on strengthening local cultural ecosystems in dialogue with global contexts.

Karla Silva is a visual artist whose practice is informed by a sensitive observation of time and of the energy that shapes matter, as well as the marks and traces it leaves behind. Her work has been presented at the First Contemporary Mosaic Symposium in Rosarito, Baja California (2023) and at the 4th International Mosaic Symposium in Adana, Turkey (2024). In 2025 she completed an artist residency at Cobertizo, Jilotepec, and received one of the awards of the 25th Baja California Biennial in the Residency category, held in Lagos last November. She trained in the workshops of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2010–2011) and holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and Business from CENTRO CDMX / Sotheby’s Institute NY.

Carmen Neely (b. 1987 in Charlotte, North Carolina; lives and works in Chicago, IL) trades in semantics. For Neely, the difference between two types of line is not so much a precious commitment to formal queries that lead nowhere outside of the canvas; rather these marks are an earnest stab at solving real problems in expressing one’s own history and the histories that are passed through us by the act of mark making. Neely holds a Master in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is included in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI), The University of North Carolina (Charlotte, NC), and Plattsburgh State Museum of Art (New York, NY) Neely is currently an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.