On View:  June 6 – September 8, 2018

NANCY FRIEDEMANN-SÁNCHEZ
CASTA PAINTINGS

Artist Statement

Anchored in feminism, my work is informed by North and South American cultural forms that become fused together. My practice is a bicultural and trans-cultural experience; it speaks of difference and opposites. I grew up in Colombia and migrated to the US when I became an adult. Today, I make art in two languages dealing with the curious and extraordinary experience of roaming between these two worlds. Yet, there is an important piece of myself rooted in Colombia. I create visual expressions dealing with hybridity and syncretism that has taken place since the conquest of the Americas which is replicated and experienced in the migration process. I am currently creating a visual novel comprised of paintings, sculptures and mixed media that together, and in different voices, weave a coexistence of dialogues, passages, punctuations, and silences about this hybridity and of cultural ownership. It is a multi-narrative novel about memory, migration and the pursuit of the American dream. These images are rooted in Minimalism as a dominant ideological umbrella. They are intertwined to make narratives that describe lives in spiritual and physical transit.

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Artist Bio

Nancy Friedmann-Sánchez exhibitions include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Joslyn Art Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, The Museum of the University of New Mexico, El Museo del Barrio, Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico, University at Albany Art Museum, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá; San Luis Obispo Art Center and Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Friedemann-Sánchez was selected for the Elisabeth Sackler Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum, awarded the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation grant, a Pollock Krasner grant, a NALAC grant and was nominated to the Rema Hort Mann and to the Anonymous was a Woman Foundation, received the acheivement award from the Nebraska Arts Council.  Her residencies include Art OMI, Fountainhead, Tamarind Institute, Yaddo, Gasworks Triangle Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Bronx Museum for the Arts.