Commemorating the 30-year anniversary of UNM's Center for Regional Studies: Reflexiones del Corazón
December 2, 2019
Reflexiones del Corazón is a portfolio of New Mexican images by native New Mexicans María Baca, a painter; Miguel A. Gandert, a photographer; and A. Gabriel Meléndez, a poet. The artists selected geographical areas in New Mexico which had special significance for them: Barelas, an older neighborhood of Albuquerque, and Mora and Española, two northern New Mexico towns. The three artists together visited those communities, drawing inspiration from them for these visual and literary impressions.
This Tamarind Institute publication was created in Albuquerque, New Mexico, between November 1992 and August 1993, in a limited edition of fifty signed and Arabic-numbered portfolios, three Tamarind Impressions, and one bon á tirer impression. Additional miscellaneous proofs exist and are noted in the edition documentation. Lithographs by María Baca were printed on cream and grey Rives BFK and cream Somerset papers by Tamarind Master Printers Veda Ozelle and Bill Lagattuta. The photographic lithographs by Miguel A. Gandert were printed on white Somerset satin paper by Bill Lagattuta. The text design and letterpress printing (on Natural Surf Beckett Concept paper), as well as the portfolio design and construction, were executed by Katherine Kuehn of The Salient Seedling Press, Albuquerque.
This project was funded in part through a contract from the New Mexico Arts Division and by the Center for Regional Studies of the University of New Mexico.
Reflexiones del Corazón is part of the Pertenecer: Chicanx Artists on Belonging exhibit at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
November 26, 2019 - June 28, 2020
As the title suggests PERTENECER — Spanish for “to belong” — this exhibition presents artworks by nine artists that explore the possibilities and meanings of belonging. The diverse experiences of belonging are interpreted by these artists in vastly different ways through drawing, painting, printmaking, video, sculpture, and photography.
