Esperanza Cortes "Throne"

Soapbox Gallery

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Throne is a large installation work which incorporates over 500 clay flowers made by the artist. Each petal bearing the life lines from her left hand surrounding a bamboo baby chair. This work is fueled by rituals of birth, death and renewal.

Statement from the artist:

In my University of Iowa Master's thesis, 1970, I stated that my objective in painting was to eliminate all representational images from my work. The name of my Master's thesis was "Metaphysical-scapes" in which elements of landscapes appeared. Through the years landscape and other representational imagery kept surfacing. As time went on my painting became less and less representational. I think I achieved my goal in the large non-objective paintings that are some of my most recent works.

My interest in the folk art traditions, ritualistic art, music and dance of Latin America, The Caribbean, Africa and their continuous and evolving changes are at the core of my sculpture and installation work. My installations are informed by individual and collective memory. My recent body of work examines the extent to which a consciousness, national or personal, defines itself through the opposing force of a transcultural experience. — Esperanza Cortes

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from November 10, 2011 to November 24, 2011

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