The CCCNY begins its celebration of Woman’s History Month with our ongoing Contemporary Artists Series, featuring an in-depth interview by art critic and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera with María Brito, whose paintings, sculptures, and installations have made her one of the most revered Cuban-American artists of “the Miami Generation.” She is best known for her elaborately constructed room-like works that embody narratives of loss and displacement. Her painted self-portraits express a connection between the divine, the self, and the body.
Brito is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants, including a South Florida Consortium Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,two Cintas Fellowships, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, and the Florida Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has been featured in several prestigious institutions, including Museo del Barrio, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The interview will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
FREE ADMISSION
TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW, CLICK HERE ON THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME:
https://youtu.be/XINWhQOWON0
To participate in the Q&A via Zoom AFTER the interview, click here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89526024766
[Image above: María Brito’s The Juggler, Oil on wood and mixed media, 31” x 21” x 4” – 1989]
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 critic, she is the author of a
number of critical works, including ReMembering Cuba:
Legacy of a Diaspora, the novel The Pearl of the Antilles,
the edited collection of essays Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced,
and the monograph Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora:
Setting the Tent Against the House. Her play, The Presence of
Absence (a Cuban nocturne), was selected as a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Film Festival and Literary Competition, and a finalist in the prestigious Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) Carnaval of New Latina/o Work; and presented as a staged reading at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver. The CCCNY will be presenting the play in 2023.
This online presentation is part of CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
This event is presented in association with 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 YorkState Council on the Arts and the New YorkState Legislature.
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