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ART; One Show Ponders a Cause and the Other Reviews a Heritage By WILLIAM ZIMMER

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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,...

CROSSING BORDERS - The Wheel of Fortune (American Dream), returns to NYC after 24 years

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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...

TALLER DE FABRICACIÓN DE PIGMENTOS Y CARBONCILLO por Anaida Hernandez

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Lugar: El Rancho Guayacán, Salinas, Puerto Rico Miércoles 1 y jueves de 2 de marzo de 2023  por Anaida Hernández Descrición del taller Desde é pocas pre-hist ó ricas hasta nuestros d í as, los pigmentos naturales han sido una herramienta fundamental en la transformaci ó n del medio ambiente. Pintar y dibujar con pigmentos extra í dos desde la naturaleza puede ser un viaje sorprendente hacia la alquimia bot á nica y mineral. Descubre el proceso de c ó mo recolectar y elaborar pigmentos naturales con ramas, hojas, semillas, corteza, c á scara, rocas, frutas, tierra, pigmento mineral utilizando t é cnicas y recetas medievales como la tempera a base de huevo y carboncillo de carb ó n vegetal. Llevar á s a casa un dibujo al carboncillo y una pintura de tinta natural y mineral elaborados en el taller.

Anaida Hernández, Artist talk at Hunter College East Harlem Gallery , NYC

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Wheel of Fortune (American Dream), 1999 by Anaida Hernández. Mixed-media interactive installation. Wood, acrylic paint, steel, fabric. Variable dimentions; wheel: f d (1.4m). table top: 6 x2 f x 2 1n (1.8m x 60 x x cm.) View at the Taller Puertorriqueṅo, Filadelfia, USA.   Link: https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/ida-y-vuelta-anaida-hernandez-artists-talk LOCATION:  The Silberman School of Social Work COST:  Free April 1    1:00 pm  –  2:30 pm  J oin Anaida Hernández as she explores her work, La rueda de la fortuna – el sueño americano (1999), 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). The exhibit, whose name translates to Arrivals and Departures: Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, is curated by Laura B...

CENTRO Announces Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at Hunter East Harlem Gallery this Spring

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The exhibit will be on view from March 30, 2023 to September 30, 2023 Link: https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/news/centro-announces-ida-y-vuelta-experiencias-de-la-migracion-en-el-arte-puertorriqueno-contemporaneo-at-hunter-college-east-harlem-gallery-this-spring/ (New York, NY – March 14, 2023)  The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) in partnership with  Hunter East Harlem Gallery , has announced the opening of the exhibition,  Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo (Arrivals and Departures: Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art),  from March 30th, 2023 through September 30th. The exhibition, a major show featuring 19 artists whose works respond to the processes, causes, and consequences of traveling and living away from their place of origin, will mark the first time in ten years that CENTRO will be partnering with the Hunter East Harlem Gallery, neighbor to the CENTRO Library & Archives, as part...

ARTIST STATEMENT

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ANAIDA HERNÁNDEZ  Anaida Hernandez is a contemporary multimedia artist. Primary medium sculpture and painting.  Born and raised in Puerto Rico,                  Anaida's work is characterized by addressing human rights issues: femi cide, migration, environment, identity and coloniality.  Anaida Hernández's research-based practice investigates the intersections of history, material culture and politics through a wide range of media that include painting, sculpture, printmaking, installations and documentaries, among others. Anaida is  considered by art critics as one of the pioneers in addressing the issue of violence  against women  in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American art. 1 Until death do us part, 1994,   is a memorial installation, an icon of Hernández's work where the artist reminds us of the femicides in Puerto Rico, when Law 54 on Domestic Violence was signed in 1989.  Anaida cons...

DOCUMENTAL: José R. Alicea, grabador/ papelero, pajarero - Dirección por Anaida Hernández

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ENLACE al documental You Tube:   https://youtu.be/d3UeRoQ_3OA Título : José R. Alicea, grabador, papelero, pajarero Produción ejecutiva : Teresa Tió Dirección: Anaida Hernandez Producción general: Anaida Hernández y Teresa Tió Tiempo: 23 minutos de duración Fecha:    Estreno el 6 de agosto de 2021 Lugar:   Teatro Raúl Juliá, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico  Día de estreno: agosto de 2021 Lugar: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico José R. Alicea, grabador, papelero, pajarero, es  un documental sobre la vida y obra del artista grabador puertorriqueño, José R. Alicea. Enlace a reseña: Periódico El Vocero  https://www.elvocero.com/escenario/cine/documental-recoge-vida-y-obra-de-jos-r- alicea/article_7bde4f8c-fa19-11eb-b6d0-7b1dc3e386cb.html Por Jorge Rodriguez Ese fascinante juego del vuelo de las aves, la política, la mujer, las costumbres del barrio Bélgica de Ponce que plasma su visión plástica en grabados y las relaciones que recrea con...