Dr. Rocio Aranda-Alvarado’s lecture critique

Dr. Rocio Aranda-Alvarado is a curator at the museum El Museo del Barrio in New York. Her working associates with the modern art or contemporary art of the America. For her lecture, she said that she has been researching four artists work from the 1960s to the present. Engaged in American art history and the most relevant discussion, these artists use a variety of tactics objects. The important historical figures are the descendants of the two artists to develop a concise history of Latino artist’s life and work in the United States. The first figure is the destruction of art movement in the mid-1960s by Rafael Montanez Ortiz. The destroyed works and performance ways for him is explored, especially in his work about the terms of the destruction and contemporary culture. The second figure is Agustin Fernandez, who immigrated to New York City as an adult to live the rest of his life.  His work deeply influenced by subculture of punk and New York’s gay. The photographer Sophie Rivera was looking for a way in order to extend the Puerto Rican exists in the public eye in the 1980s. Her work considered through a series of portraits. Both of the artists which including the photographer Sophie Rivera and sculptor Elia Alba are explore ideas about race, gender, physical and performance that create work with digital images and fabrics. The discussion of these artists’ work is an interactive between the artists and contemporary American culture and theirs participation.