anaida hernández

Login Archives   NEW YORK TIMES Link  New York Times  por William Zimme r  ART; One Show Ponders a Cause and the Other Reviews a Heritage - New York Times     Nov 29 NEW YORK TIMES by William Zimmer - Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY   ART; One Show Ponders a Cause and the Other Reviews a Heritage By WILLIAM ZIMMER Published: April 19, 1998 THE Lehman College Art Gallery is divided into neat halves, and for the current exhibition the separation is specifically useful. Each half contains an elaborate installation, which is markedly different in temperament and rhythm from the other. ''Till Death Do Us Part'' by Anaida Hernandez is fraught with urgency, while ''A Town Portrait'' by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is a remembrance of things past. Ms. Hernandez, who is from Puerto Rico, was moved to make her work by threatened changes to a 1990 law in her country, which made domestic violence a crime. In an interview with the gallery director,...

The Wheel of Fortune (American Dream), on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. La rueda de la fortuna was part of Hernández solo exhibition at the New Museum, Illegal Games (1999). "Risk, anticipation, luck, walking on a tightrope, riddles and the fortuitous; these are the elements of life that are translated into the practice of games, in the act of rolling the dice and turning the wheel of fortune "- Anaida Hernández Fragment of the essay  catalogue exhibition Ida y Vuelta (2018)  by Laura Bravo, curator  La ruleta de la fortuna: el sueño americano ,  1998 - 1999   This game warns us, through the table in which we are invited to bet, that the desires of prosperity, freedom, fame, pleasure or  success, also imply the risk of encountering a thorny outcome. This is the drama experienced by thousands of Puerto Ricans who, driven by the r...