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With Joan Mitchell
- “Ribbons Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Forever Young”
- Descripción
- “Pin Loom Series”
- Descripción
- “Por siempre joven”
- Descripción
- “Hair Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Hair Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Feminicidio en Guatemala”
- Descripción
- “Wave Hill's Books of Leaves Lace”
- Descripción
- “Wave Hill's Books of Leaves”
- Descripción
- “Pressure Prints”
- Descripción
- “ARTchivo”
- Descripción
- “Deshilando el miedo”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
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- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
- Descripción
- “Bittersweet”
- Descripción
- “Hoy he roto tus cartas”
- Descripción
- “Drawing of Man/Drawing of Woman”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Recuerdo de nuestra boda”
- Descripción
- “120 Minutos de silencio”
- Descripción
- “Días especiales”
- Descripción
- “Preoccupation (Gray Hair)”
- Descripción
- “Dibujo de hombre/Dibujo de mujer”
- Descripción
- “Untitled (Rinse)”
- Descripción
- “In Memoriam”
- Descripción
- Serie “A flor de piel”
- Descripción
- Serie “Flores silvestres”
- “Wildflowers” Series
- “Abuela, madre, hija”
- “Grandmother, Mother, Daughter”
- “Retorno a la pubertad”
- “Return to Puberty”
- “Para verte mejor”
- “The Better to See You With”
- “Ái Spik Ínglish”
- Descripción
- “Para que nos recuerdes mejor”
- “To Remember Us Better”
- “Valentía y coraje”
- “Courage and Bravery”
- “Para besarte mejor”
- “The Better to Kiss You With”
- “Para acariciarte mejor”
- “The Better to Caress You With”
- “Bésame mucho”
- “Kiss Me Plenty”
- “Reddest Red”
- “Escudos”
- “Shields”
- Serie “Instalación en museos de arte”
- “Installation at Art Museums” Series
- “Encierro rosa”
- “Romance Imprisonment”
- “Título de propiedad”
- “Ownership Title”
- “La sombra”
- “The Shadow”
Print on Fabric (Detail)
Print on Paper
Días especiales
Special Days
New York, 2008
Print on Fabric:
Etching (2 colors)
Image Size: 6.25” x 6”
Full fitted sheet: 54” x 76” x 13”
Edition of 3, plus 1 Artist Proof
Print on Paper:
Silkscreen (2 colors)
Image Size: 6.25” x 6”
Paper Size: 11” x 14”
Rives Paper
Edition of 7
Días especiales (Special Days) is an introspective exploration of the female body, reflecting on the menstrual cycle. But rather than offering a negative connotation with the association of dirtiness and impurity of some cultures and religions, I want to cherish women’s bodies by exploring menstruation in a positive way.
The print consists of ten images inspired from medical books of microscopic samples of biopsies of vaginal tissue from different days of the menstrual cycle, and taken them as reference to draw onto each of the copper plates.
PRODUCTION:
Edition on Fabric printed by the artist at The Art Students League, 2008.
Edition on Paper printed by the artist at Hunter College Printshop, around 2009-10.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Special Thanks to Vicky Pilato for her assistance and advice in printing the edition on fabric.
The production of this project was made possible thanks to a 2008 Grant from NoMAA, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.
Historias íntimas (Intimate Stories)
Cartas—De la serie “Historias íntimas” (Letters—From “Intimate Stories” Series)
Untitled (Rinse)
Courtesy of Galería Antonia Puyó
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
JustMad Art Fair,
Booth from Galería Antonia Puyó,
Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
February 17–20, 2011
Días especiales (Special Days)
Print on Paper
11” x 14”
Historias íntimas (Intimate Stories)
Artist book hand-bound, and letters
Dimensions variable
An exhibition copy accompanies the work
Hoy he roto tus cartas (Today I tore up your letters)
Video
1 minute 27 seconds
120 Minutos de Silencio (120 Minutes of Silence)
Video-performance
120 minutes
Dimensions variable
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Design in the Heights: Contemporary Meets Colonial,
Uptown Arts Stroll 2010
Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY
June 1–September 10, 2010
Días especiales (Special Days)
Installation of fitted bedsheet with printed etchings
Dimensions variable
Bittersweet
Set of 2 porcelain teacups and saucers broken and glued back together
Dimensions variable
Notes regarding prohibited foods during menstruation accompanied some of the treats
during the opening.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Días especiales (Special Days),
Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP), Bronx, NY
December 6–29, 2008
Días especiales (Special Days)
Installation of fitted bedsheet with printed etchings
Dimensions variable
Cartas—De la serie “Historias íntimas”
(Letters—From “Intimate Stories” Series)
Inkjet prints of reproductions of letters from both my grandmothers and my mother telling about their first menstruation
19” x 13” each (9 pieces)
An English translation accompanies the work
Untitled (Rinse)
Video
3 minutes 38 seconds
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Special Thanks to Blanka Amezkua, creator of BBBP, for generously opening her bedroom as an exhibition space.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
NoMAA Visual Arts Grantees Exhibition,
The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York, NY
June 13–June 27, 2008
Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Días especiales (Special Days)
Installation on a chest of drawers of 3 fitted sheets with printed etchings
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of Ana Lilian Barrios
Courtesy of Andrea Aragón
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Tres artistas. Tres vivencias,
2do Salón Nacional del Grabado,
Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala
February 5–March 19, 2008
Curated by Lucrecia Cofiño de Prera
Dias especiales (Special Days)
Installation of fitted bedsheet with printed etchings
Dimensions variable
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Special Thanks to Lucrecia Cofiño de Prera, Estefanía Dimitrakis, David Urbina, Lourdes de Lagunas, Andrea Aragón and Ana Lilian Barrios.
Mattress Courtesy of Serta, Guatemala