An in-depth profile of the artistic trajectory of María Martínez Cañas, as described by the artist herself, whose work deals primarily with her Cuban heritage and journeys of discovery. Documents related to Cuba often have formed the basis for her photographs and are sometimes contrasted with doors and windows that suggest openings and closings; the revealed and the hidden. Some of her later work has been creating photograms by placing vegetative matter from her backyard between photographic paper and a light source.
Presented by writer and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, coordinator of our Contemporary Artists Series. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience via Zoom.
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This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
[Image above: María Martínez Cañas, Absence Revealed 002, 2021
Mixed Media on Hybrid Wood panels, 50″ x 40″]
Maria Martinez-Cañas was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a B.F.A. in Photography from the PhiladelphiaCollege of Art and an M.F.A. in Photography fromThe School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with 50 one-person exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions. She is the recipient of the Oolite Arts 2020 Michael Richards Award,
a Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2016 Photography Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation 2014 Visual Arts Fellowship, a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; among many others. Her works are represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami. She is an Associate Professor tenured and the head of the Photography Department at New World School of the Arts, where she has mentored dozens of Miami’s visual artists, since 1996. She lives and works in Miami.
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera is Professor of Literature
and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition to being
published poet and literary criis Professor of Literature and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. In addition to her novel, The Pearl of the Antilles, Andrea is a published poet and essayist. Her book-length scholarly projects include a collection of testimonial expressions drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States titled ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora; and edited collection of essays, Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced. Her most recent work is a monograph titledCuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House. Andrea’s play, The Presence of Absence (a Cuban nocturne), was selected as a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Film Festival and Literary Competition, a finalist in the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) Carnaval of New Latina/o Work and was presented as a staged reading at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver. The Presence of Absence will be presented as a staged reading at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in October 2023; at Theatre Row in New York City in January 2024; and at the ENT Center in Colorado Springs in April 2024.
This event is co-sponsored by Cuba Art NY
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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