EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & UPDATES

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ORDER PRINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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Considering purchasing a print of a Yasmin Hernandez artwork as a gift? You have until Saturday, December 17th to order and still receive the print(s) in time for Christmas. Visit the newly updated Purchasing Art page featuring purchase buttons for all available prints, in one place!

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CURRENT EXHIBITS

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ARTWORKS ON VIEW/ ON-GOING

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"Soldaderas" 2011
Tribute to Frida Kahlo, Julia de Burgos and Puerto Rican/ Mexican solidarity
Outdoor mural, Modesto Flores Community Garden,
Lexington Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets, East Harlem, NYC
(Unfortunately the garden is mostly open during daylight hours and closed during inclement weather, though some of the mural can be viewed from the street).

"Mothers of the Motherless" 2008
(a tribute to revolutionary leaders of women and LGBT communities)
The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

"40 Years of Student Activism" 2008
(5 panel series decidated to Student Activism at Columbia University 1968-2008)
Intercultural Resource Center
Columbia University, NYC

"Raising Revolution" 2004
(A portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos and the subversion of US institutions in building revolutions elsewhere)
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library
Hunter College, CUNY, NYC

"Miel de Abeja (Para Ochun)" 2003
(A tribute to the Yoruba Love Goddess)
ISESE Gallery
The Center for African and African American Studies
University of Texas, Austin, Texas

"Quien se queda?" 2003,
(A tribute to the participants of the Day Hall Takeover of 1993 and student activism at Cornell)
Latino Living Center
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

"Realidades de quisqueya" 1997
(Permanent exhibition of works inspired by the Dominican Republic)
Latino Studies Program Offices
4th Floor, Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Sponsored by LSP, COSEP/MEA and a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts

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UPDATES

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In July of 2011, Yasmin was invited to participate in a group of more than a dozen young Latino Arts Professionals from throughtout the US to form Crescendo Cultural, a task force on the state of Latino arts in this country. The initiative was spearheaded by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. A report of the findings is currently being developed. Visit the Crescendo Cultural website to learn more about this important initiative and to read more about the selected Task Force members.

http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/CrescendoCulturalPage/index.html

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Puerto Rico tiene que controlar su propio destino
Puerto Rico Must Control its Own Destiny

Yasmin was invited to write an Op Ed piece on the theme of Puerto Rico's political status. This brief piece in favor of independence for Puerto Rico was published in the Opinion section of Spanish-Language newspaper El Diario/ La Prensa on Tuesday, June 7, 2011.

Click here to read the piece that was published in Spanish (English translation also included)

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Current Projects being developed...
Yasmin has been busy developing several new projects and exploring new media. Her Luz (Light) project is dedicated to her brother who ended his battle with cancer in April of 2010. Having witnessed her brother's illness and passing around the time of her first pregnancy and birth and during the first year of her baby's life, this project explores the cycle of life and the transcendence of spirit. It is a reflection of her family's spiritualist beliefs and traditions. This multimedia project makes use of digital art, expanding on her paintings and collages. Calligraphy is also weaved into the images bringing text from song lyrics, journal entries, quotes from her brother and more.

Another project she is working on, Linea Negra (Black Line) is inspired by the artist's experience having birthed her son at home with a midwife. The project reclaims birthing as a sacred process. Referencing the history of the mass sterilization campaigns on Puerto Rican women and the experimentation of contraceptives in Puerto Rico, the project celebrates birthing on the mother's term as a liberating, spiritual and political act.

Last but not least, building on the Bieké project, Yasmin is developing the footage that she shot in preparation for the debut exhibit in Vieques, Puerto Rico. She is working on a series of videos that are part art/ part documentary. The first in this series, 19 de abril (April 19th) tells the story of David Sanes and how his tragic death revitalized the movement to finally end US Navy bombing maneuvers on Vieques island. A familiar story of tragedy and triumph, this work also goes on to share the impact that this loss presented for the Sanes family.

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A new Mom!

Of all my creations, the "bestest" was born in the Spring of 2009. To the tunes of the most inspiring, uplifting music in my collection, mami and papi, with the guidance of our ancestors, our midwife Sakina O'Uhuru and doula Enentsa, welcomed Gabriel Shea Gartner Hernandez in the comfortable, loving space of our living room!!!!! It was the most fierce, spiritual, powerful, challenging, spectacular thing I have ever experienced!

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Appreciated and Necessary Support:

I am grateful to have received some much needed support for my Bieké: Tierra de Valientes project. These grants have covered travel costs for research, the purchase of supplies and equipment and the transport of the artworks to Vieques for the debut exhibit. Thanks to:

-The Puffin Foundation Ltd, Teaneck, NJ. 2009
-The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), Fund for the Arts. San Antonio, TX. This fund is also supported by the Ford Foundation and JPMorgan Chase. (2008)
-The CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program/ The Center for Puerto Rican Studies/ CUNY. NYC. (for 2007/08 academic year)
-The Sugarman Foundation. Navato, CA. (2006)

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PAST EVENTS

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tertulia latina

Three Artists:::Three Visions

Friday, September 30 @ 7PM

SAGE
305 7th Avenue
5th Floor (between 27th and 28th Street)
New York City, NY

WITH

Yasmín Hernández
www.yasminhernandez.com

Erick Sánchez
www.ericksanchez.net

AND

Luis Carle
www.luiscarle.com

A tertulia is a social gathering with literary or artistic overtones, especially in Iberia or Latin America. The word is originally Spanish, and has only moderate currency in English, in describing Latin cultural contexts. It is rather similar to a salon, but a typical tertulia in recent centuries has been a regularly scheduled event in a public place such as a bar, although some tertulias are held in more private spaces, such as someone's living room. Participants may share their recent creations (poetry, short stories, other writings, even artwork or songs). Usually (but not always) the participants in a regularly scheduled tertulia are, in some respects, likeminded, whether by having similar politics, similar literary tastes, etc.

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