FotoWeek DC Events
Opening: Dulce Pinzon - The Real Story of the Superheroes | |
| DATE: | 11/6/2009 - 11/6/2009 |
| WHEN: | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| WHERE: | Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts; The Healing Arts Gallery The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery T: 202.483.8600 |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974. She studied Mass Media
Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and
Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995 she moved to
New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.
As a young Mexican artist living in the US, Dulce soon found new
inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of
identity, and political and cultural frustrations. In her black and
white series "Viviendo en el Gabacho" (a Mexican colloquialism for
living in the US) she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon of the
integration of the Mexican immigrant into the New York landscape. "The
Real Story of the superheroes" comes full circle to reintroduce the
Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style
featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning
superhero garb, thus raising questions of both our definition of
heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that
fuels our ever-consuming economy. Her work has been published and
collected internationally. In 2001 her photos were used for the cover
of a publication of Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the
United States". In 2002 Dulce won the prestigious Jovenes Creadores
grant in Mexico for her work. Dulce was a 2006 fellow in Photography
from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2006 she was awarded an
Honorific Mention in the Santa Fe project competition and she won the
12th edition of the Mexican Biennial of El Centro de La Imagen. http://www.dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm.
Gallery will close at 3pm on December 24 and will be closed for the
holidays, December 25, 2009 through January 2, 2010. Exhibition is from 11/4/2009 to 12/24/2009. |
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