Tangerine Gallery, Contemporary Art & Traditional Art Gallery
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ART SHOW: DERROCHE DE AMOR
(Squandering Love)
 A rare exhibition of paintings on wooden panels and rare handmade amate/bark paper by the critically acclaimed, major Arizona artist, CRISTINA CÁRDENAS.
Tucson Museum of Art director, Robert Knight, says
“Cristina Cárdenas is a gifted painter whose provocative,
powerful work evokes ancient knowledge and mythology.
Her complex imagery is both sensual and visionary.
Cristina is a major contemporary artist and one of my
personal favorites.”
Opening reception, November 10, 2007, noon until 5 p.m.
The exhibition runs through December 29th, 2007
*The artist is available for interviews in conjunction with this show.
Cristina Cárdenas Biography and Artist Statement:.
 Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, artist Cristina Cárdenas has been living and working in Tucson for 20 years. Her academic study included architecture at the Universidad de Guadalajara and painting and printmaking at the University of Arizona. Cristina makes large and small scale paintings, lithographs and monoprints. Her themes explore the disruption of stereotypes of gender, religion and culture. For the past decade she has been producing works on rare bark/amate paper that is made by the Otomi Indians of Puebla, Mexico. For these works she combines amate with assorted mixed media such as acrylic and gouache paints, dry pigments, gold leaf and printmaking techniques.
 “I use modern techniques on ancient surfaces to create new representations of female archetypes derived from classical Mexican antiquity; contemporary interpretations of female saints; and intimate (auto)biographical portraits of womanhood and motherhood.”
“…my work also explores the experience of unnamed or unknown immigrant subjects from the perspective of a woman born in Mexico who lives in a border zone. In my art I engage the simultaneous challenges of belonging to a cultural community and forming an individual identity.”
Permanent Collections:
University of Arizona Museum of Art
Tucson Museum of Art
UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
SPARC Center, Venice, California
Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago
Mexican Museum, San Francisco
Museo Regional de Oaxaca
Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo
Awards:
Cristina has won numerous prizes and awards including fellowships from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (2003), WESTA/NEA (1994), the Tucson Pima Arts Council (1992 & 1995) and a grant from the Phoenix Art Museum (1988). In addition she has done two major residence fellowships, the Claude Monet Museum in Giverny, France (1995) and Balgowan, South Africa (1999) with The Hourglass Project supported by the Kellogg Foundtion.
In 1993 Cristina was a selected artist in the SPARC Great Walls Unlimited mural project in Venice , California. In 1993 she fabricated and installed two large ceramic murals for the City of Tucson.
Since 1996 Cristina Cardenas has been listed on the Arizona Commission for the Arts, Artist Roster and has worked with their teaching program. In addition she has been an adjunct faculty member at Pima College since 2003.
Additionally, Cristina was awarded two lithograph commissions from ASU Hispanic Research Center (2000, 2004), produced a limited silkscreen edition for the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame (2004), another silkscreen series for Coronado Print Shop in Austin, Texas (2005). In 1994, 1997, 2000 & 2006 she produced monoprints at the Self-Help Graphics Atellier in East Los Angeles where she was also the invited artist for “The 2002 Maestras Portfolio.”
* Print quality professional photos are available of Cristina's paintings.
Susan Warren, owner
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