ACCELERATOR
Rixy
Pa*Lante, 2022
Pa*Lante, a mural conceived by street artist Rixy, embodies the collective empowerment of feminism through the representation of a Latinx woman and her canine sidekick. This colorful and vibrant piece reflects the powerful ways women of color are moving forward and the honest journeys they navigate, including combating Latin machismo. Furthermore, Rixy’s storyworld mirrors the onward gaze of breaking through the intoxication of social injustice, inner chainlinks, and machismo control, into power and tranquility. The mural lies at the intersection of several generational cultures and timelines.
The mural is sited in Roxbury, where she grew up near Centre Street and Columbus Ave, as an ode to the neighborhood’s racially and socioeconomically diverse cultures. She hopes that the accessibility of mural art will remind us that all voices deserve to be spotlighted, and she especially wants women to see the piece as a reflection of themselves.
LOCATION
301 Highland Avenue in Roxbury’s Fort Hill
ACCELERATOR
Rixy
Rixy (b. 1995, Roxbury, MA) is a Latinx-Caribbean artist based in Boston, MA, who blends street art, fantasy illustration, and intersectional feminism through painting, sculpture, and installation. She creates stylized characters and dreamscapes to explore the body, cultural expression, and spirituality, activating third spaces between private and public walls. Rixy’s practice incorporates storytelling tools like spray paint, found objects, and embellishments used along her contemporary and ancestral diaspora, to uplift underrepresented communities, and imagine new worlds. In these works, she found “Cúcala": a storyisland and workshop that connects her reflections and practices of social empowerment.
Notable commissions include the City of Boston, the Boston Triennial’s Public Art Accelerator, and Wassaic Project’s Haunted Mill. Rixy has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sculptor’s Gallery SoWA, MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic, Oakland, Chicago, and many others. She has received a 2023 NEFA Newell Flather Award for Emerging Leadership in Public Art, a Next Level: Aerosol USA Ambassadorship with UAE Dubai, is a featured TEDx Roxbury speaker, and an Artadia Boston finalist.