Artist Biography
Ana Maria Hernando makes paintings, drawings, and prints by layering natural and formal elements. Designs taken from the mantillas and mantones worn for church and festivals in her Spanish background are blended with images of plants and insects. Hernando says these are “reminders of the playfulness, sensuality, and spirituality, the fullness and the sparseness, the rules and the inspirations.”
Hernando made her first print at Shark’s in March 2005. The diptych, Las Aberturas, Los Organos que Esperan, utilizes the same layering technique found in her paintings in a form unique to printmaking. “The layering of flowers, designs, and cut-outs, and the transparencies that happen as a result of printing on the back and the front of the paper, are a metaphor for the transparent actions in life, the weaving of a shape that is not always easy to see.”
Selected Collections: Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN; Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City, MO; Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Prints by the Artist
