B2 Atelier is pleased to present Between Worlds, a duo exhibition bringing together the sculptural practices of Mauricio De la Parra and Austin Brantley.

Though distinct in visual language, both artists engage the human figure as a threshold — a site where memory, identity, and imagination converge. Their works inhabit spaces suspended between past and present, reality and myth, ancestry and becoming.

De la Parra draws from the tradition of Magical Realism to construct psychologically charged tableaux in which children, animals, and hybrid forms appear poised between innocence and transformation. His meticulously rendered figures suggest a world governed not by logic, but by emotional truth — where vulnerability becomes strength and fantasy reveals interior reality.

Brantley, by contrast, anchors the exhibition in ancestral gravity. Drawing from classical Western sculpture and the symbolic heritage of African artistic traditions, he reconfigures the human figure as an architecture of memory. His forms embody lineage, endurance, and cultural continuity, proposing identity as an evolving continuum rather than fixed inheritance.

Together, the artists expand the notion of “between worlds” beyond geography. It becomes a condition of existence: the negotiation between history and imagination, fragility and resilience, individual experience and collective memory. Through distinct sculptural vocabularies, both De la Parra and Brantley reveal the figure as a bridge — carrying the weight of the past while gesturing toward possibility.

Mauricio De la Parra

Mauricio is a celebrated Mexican sculptor born in Mexico City on January 16, 1996. He showcased talent for clay modeling from a young age, supported by his family's encouragement. At 17, he began formal training in a small atelier, which laid the foundation for his artistic career. He honed his skills at the renowned Academia de San Carlos, focusing on sculpting techniques, and furthered his educatioin digital modeling and anatomy at Escena Escuela de Animación y Arte Digital. Over the years, Mauricio has become a key figure in contemporary Mexican art, exhibiting in various galleries and museums.

His sculptures, influenced by Realismo Mágico, explore innocence and emotion through children, symbolic animals, and mystical beings, inviting viewers to engage with human experience.

List of previous exhibitions

-”Interconnecting Lines” - New York City, 2025

- “Beyond Borders” Museum of Modern European Art - Barcelona, 2025

- "Entre lo Abstracto y lo Figurativo" - Mexico City, 2019

- "Córsica Gallery 22 anniversary" - Puerto Vallarta, 2023

- "Neobarroco" - Galería Óscar Román, CDMX, 2023

- "El peyote entre dos mundos" - former headquarters of the Mexican Senate, CDMX, 2023

- "Ecos de la infancia" - SOLO Exhibition, CDMX, 2024