<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576605628153194874</id><updated>2011-04-21T12:15:33.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Artist Norah Hernandez</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Brenda Torres-Figueroa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14332459953646972790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576605628153194874.post-1490885365736725613</id><published>2008-06-08T15:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T09:29:00.504-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1whaMaiVzMA/SExjFvUwjEI/AAAAAAAAAAo/ZKA3VRp6gvU/s1600-h/Slide1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1whaMaiVzMA/SExjFvUwjEI/AAAAAAAAAAo/ZKA3VRp6gvU/s400/Slide1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209647819214851138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4576605628153194874-1490885365736725613?l=norahhernandez.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/feeds/1490885365736725613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4576605628153194874&amp;postID=1490885365736725613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/1490885365736725613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/1490885365736725613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Brenda Torres-Figueroa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14332459953646972790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1whaMaiVzMA/SExjFvUwjEI/AAAAAAAAAAo/ZKA3VRp6gvU/s72-c/Slide1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576605628153194874.post-6481791319618721466</id><published>2008-06-08T15:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T15:53:33.599-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;To give life to an image is like retaking it of its place of origin, the Earth,&lt;br /&gt;we return to be nothing more than that, just image. An image done of hearth&lt;br /&gt;that life has spent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without name we would lack origin and a mortuary postulate that the memory&lt;br /&gt;extends. The present creates a question in time, in art, in the origin of the&lt;br /&gt;image that we insist to reconstruct to facilitate basic necessities of&lt;br /&gt;survival. Norah Hernandez is not inclusive to the passage of time or the&lt;br /&gt;simulacrum of the memory; she intimates with the imperceptible image. The&lt;br /&gt;presence/ absence concept has attracted this transformer of clay has to rethink&lt;br /&gt;her way to observe life, its unfolding through the years and to materialize&lt;br /&gt;those elusive pauses that transcend the visible matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty something body less heads has retaken her studio these last years. Some&lt;br /&gt;half sleep and others as spectators; they are kept awake in a present drowned&lt;br /&gt;of transitory imagery. The artist/creator pursues her innate ability to make&lt;br /&gt;these imaginary faces from hearth. Were she elaborates an epic metaphor of our&lt;br /&gt;universal origin. Norah rehears with her space almost metaphysically, inspired&lt;br /&gt;by the processes that are difficult to interpret as is the process of the&lt;br /&gt;death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norah began her career formally in the city of San Francisco, where she studied&lt;br /&gt;for almost one decade with artist Elaine Bagdley Arnoux and ceramist Debora&lt;br /&gt;Hoch. During that time Norah exhibited her work in multiple forums including in&lt;br /&gt;Santa Clara the Triton Museum of Art in 2003.  Norah has exhibited&lt;br /&gt;internationally in Monaco France at the "Landscapes" group show in 2000&lt;br /&gt;supported by UNESCO and the exhibitions "Human Evolution" in Osaka, Japan;&lt;br /&gt;"Peace" in the Memorial War Museum in Seoul, Korea South in 2001. Exhibited for&lt;br /&gt;the first time the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in 1995; and “ Muestra&lt;br /&gt;Nacional” at the mentioned institution in 2000. Her recent works were presented&lt;br /&gt;in year 2005 at Sin Titulo, a gallery dedicated to Contemporary Art in San&lt;br /&gt;Juan,&lt;br /&gt;PR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through her process, Norah relieves a path of sublime realities chained to a&lt;br /&gt;personal narrative that reflects a philosophical engagement. What represents&lt;br /&gt;the image in time? If is contained in a subjective reality: Norah processes&lt;br /&gt;metaphysical discourses to answer this complex question: nothing that we pruned&lt;br /&gt;to see is real. It comes to us with several approaches with the discernible&lt;br /&gt;object and also with the emotions assembled in a daily basis flooded of&lt;br /&gt;unreciprocated questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norah through her work stimulated a trilogy of the image: construction,&lt;br /&gt;destruction and reconstruction. Were an image is constructed with slight&lt;br /&gt;reference to the material plane, where it alludes solely to its origin. The&lt;br /&gt;image is destroyed when its origin is already evident. The image without origin&lt;br /&gt;is reconstructed, thus neutralizing itself within a present of memories. It&lt;br /&gt;proposes a reflection on the multiple realities that drag contemporary subjects&lt;br /&gt;on the absent and present body, the physical importance and the origin of our&lt;br /&gt;instincts, primary emotions and the invisibility. This reconstructs manifold&lt;br /&gt;profiles in rest, heartless, in calm. No of them shows the atrocious reality&lt;br /&gt;that can overcome some act to us of violence, but that space of calm that the&lt;br /&gt;physical death or a deep dream produces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The work of Norah in essence documents transitions of life, the concept of the&lt;br /&gt;dream and the course of emotions. The burned nude mud with slight hints of&lt;br /&gt;coloration overflows an endless number of intense intangible emotions. The&lt;br /&gt;minimum use of coloration stands out in her work; the use encaustic techniques&lt;br /&gt;invite us to observe an invaded skin as a reflection of the process that the&lt;br /&gt;physical death may produce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Through the time women they have amended and mended. For me working with old&lt;br /&gt;pieces is reminiscence of this repair. Molding the bags in bodily forms and&lt;br /&gt;painting them is the creation of my personal tapestry, is the historical&lt;br /&gt;account of those things that I desire to amend. - Norah Hernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interpretation of her compositions invites to an introspection of life,&lt;br /&gt;death and the origin of the image attached to many intangible body processes.&lt;br /&gt;It is a reflection of the physical and moral death amended through a construct,&lt;br /&gt;destruction and reconstruction of the concept of likeness. The artist creates&lt;br /&gt;images that are committed genuinely with the image in the time, and the&lt;br /&gt;figuration to us of which necessarily we do not want to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4576605628153194874-6481791319618721466?l=norahhernandez.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/feeds/6481791319618721466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4576605628153194874&amp;postID=6481791319618721466' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/6481791319618721466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/6481791319618721466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/2008/06/to-give-life-to-image-is-like-retaking.html' title=''/><author><name>Brenda Torres-Figueroa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14332459953646972790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576605628153194874.post-3599421274041901139</id><published>2008-06-08T15:46:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T15:49:33.272-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Darle vida a esa imagen retomándola de su lugar de origen, la tierra, volvemos a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;ser lo que hemos sido nada mas que eso, imagen.  Una imagen hecha de barro que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;la vida ha gastado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Sin nombre careceríamos de origen y de un postulado mortuorio que trascienda la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;memoria. El presente crea un interrogante en el tiempo, en el origen de la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;imagen que insistimos reconstruir para facilitar necesidades básicas de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;sobrevivencia.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Norah Hernández alude no solo al paso del tiempo, sus interrogantes, a los&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;trasuntos de la memoria, aluden a la imagen invisible.  El concepto de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;presencia/ausencia ha atraído esta transformadora del barro ha repensar su modo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;de observar la vida, el desenvolvimiento de esta a través de los años y a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;materializar aquellas pausas intangibles que trascienden lo visible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; Una veintena de cabezas sin cuerpo han retomado su taller estos últimos años.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Como dormidas algunas y espectadoras otras se desvelan en un presente ahogante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;de imágenes transitorias. La artista/creadora presente no solo en su habilidad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;innata de confeccionar estos rostros imaginarios nacidos de la tierra; elabora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;los mismos como una metáfora épica de nuestro origen universal.  Norah ensaya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;con su espacio uno delimitado como metafísico inspirado en los procesos que son&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;difíciles de interpretar como lo es el proceso de la muerte. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Norah comenzó a desarrollar su obra formalmente en la ciudad de San  Francisco,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;donde estudió por casi una década con la artista Elaine Bagdley Arnoux y la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;ceramista Debora Hoch. Durante ese tiempo Norah ha presentado su obra en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;múltiples centros de arte de San Francisco y en Santa Clara en el 2003, donde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;presentó una muestra individual en el Triton Museum of Art.  Formó parte de  la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;muestra “Landscapes” en  el año 2000 auspiciada por la UNESCO en Mónaco Francia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;y en la muestra “Human Evolution” en Osaka, Japón “Peace” en el War Memorial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Museum en Seoul, Corea del Sur en el 2001. Exhibe por primera vez en el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño en el 1995 y el la Muestra Nacional del&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño en el 2000. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Actualmente, Norah destaca su obra reciente como producto de su intensa labor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;que se ha nutrido de su regreso a Puerto Rico. Norah comparte su taller desde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;principios del 2005 con el espacio que alberga a la Galería Sin Título&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;especializada en arte contemporáneo, ubicada en el casco capitalino como parte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;de una residencia artística.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Norah ha reintegrado una trilogía sobre la imagen construcción/ destrucción/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;reconstrucción. Construye una imagen de la nada con leve referencia al plano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;material, donde alude a lo invisible de su origen. Se destruye la imagen cuando&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;su origen ya es evidente. Se reconstruye la imagen sin origen neutralizándose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;así misma dentro de un presente aberrado de memorias. Propone una reflexión&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;sobre las  realidades múltiples  que arrastran temas contemporáneos sobre el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;cuerpo ausente y presente, la trascendencia física y el origen de nuestros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;instintos, emociones primarias y la invisibilidad.  Esta reconstruye múltiples&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;perfiles en reposo, desalmados, en calma. Ninguna de ellas muestra la realidad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;atroz que pueda remontarnos algún acto de violencia, sino a ese espacio de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;calma que la muerte física o un sueño profundo produce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;A través del proceso que considera un eterno aprendizaje, Norah desahoga un&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;camino de realidades sublimes, encadenadas a una narrativa personal que refleja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;un dialogo profundo con la imagen creada. ¿Qué representa la imagen en el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;tiempo? Si esta es contenida en una realidad subjetiva. Norah procesa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;acercamientos metafísicos para contestar tan compleja interrogante: nada que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;podamos ver es real. Nos aborda con varios acercamientos con lo visible, lo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;palpable y también con las emociones ensambladas en un cotidiano inundado de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;cuestionamientos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Para referirse a la imagen que retiene o recrea lo inmediato psíquico, que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;nombra lo momentáneo, que eterniza el instante, definiendo así su concepto del&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;arte. Por tanto, como ‘imagen en el tiempo’, la intuición metafórica no se&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;refiere nunca a una presencia absoluta, sino que está siempre melancolizada,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;dentro de un marco irremediable de ausencias. Lo más lógico seria resolver esos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;espacios vacíos que se interceptan al elaborar aquello que no podemos definir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;como cuerpo, el cuerpo esta ausente  pero  los pensamientos ajenos a este no.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;Su propuesta enmarca rostros en tormento, inquietud, angustia, nostalgia, paz,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;en un letargo casi mortífero que los humaniza sin necesidad de elaborar el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;cuerpo supuesto a contenerlos.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;La obra de Norah en esencia documenta sus  transiciones de vida, el concepto del&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;sueño y el transcurso de las emociones. Cada uno procesado por medio de las&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;terminaciones instaladas en sus piezas. El barro desnudo quemado con leves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;insinuaciones de pigmentación desbordan un sinnúmero de intensas emociones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;intangibles. Se destaca en su obra el uso mínimo de coloración, un abordamiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;a técnicas de encáustica que nos invitan a observar una piel traslucida invadida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;de una reflexión sobre los procesos que la muerte física produce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;El vocabulario de Norah incluye a su vez una estrecha combinación de materiales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;que elaboran una  experimentación con el  proceso de enmendar y el concepto de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;labor como principio domestico -  A través del tiempo mujeres han enmendado y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;remendado. Para mi  la labor con retazos viejos es evidencia de esta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;reparación. Moldeando las bolsas en formas corporales y pintándolas es la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;creación de mi tapicería personal, es la cuenta histórica de esas cosas que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;deseo enmendar. -Norah Hernández&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;El uso del barro como material predilecto es intensificado por retazos de color&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;rojo desplegados a través del cuerpo de su obra. Su trabajo escultórico es un&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;conjunto de elementos seleccionados para crear fuertes espacios físicos se&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;convierten en sublimes manifestaciones de una naturaleza destruida y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;reconstruida para ser generada dentro de su genuina esencia material.  El&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;material, lo manipulable lo reconstruible nos recuenta una narrativa sobre la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;labor, sobre lo reparable, lo mutable, lo trascendente. La imagen de los&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;rostros, el cuerpo diligentemente ausente presencia un señalamiento sobre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;nuestro origen, la identidad y a la vez lo  reconocible. Descartando toda unión&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;con elementos figurativos tradicionales donde el cuerpo como concepto se ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;romantizado. Norah reacciona ha esta dualidad del cuerpo ausente sobre el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;pensamiento presente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;En su obra reciente Presencia/Ausencia presentada en Sin Titulo en el 2005; la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;pintura de Hernández complementa la labor formal y evidente de su propuesta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;escultórica. Norah ha elaborado un complejo lenguaje a través de elementos de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;costura como el remendar y la emotividad del color, especialmente del rojo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;reflexiona sobre el cuerpo femenino, lo interior, la sangre.  Utiliza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;materiales dispersos como la tierra dispersa y la sal como partículas del&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;origen universal, el barro como material manipulable donde se reconstruye el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;rostro perdido, las telas enmarcan el fluxus impecable de la vida, lo mutable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;de nuestro entorno, la protección.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;La interpretación de sus composiciones detalla una introspección sobre la vida,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;el origen de la imagen y sobre una reflexión de la muerte física y moral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;enmendada  a través de el proceso de construir, destruir y reconstruir. La&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;artista crea imágenes que intentan llevarnos en un viaje a través de partículas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;dispersas que se comprometen genuinamente con la imagen en el tiempo, y la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;figuración de lo que necesariamente no queremos ver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;pre&gt; &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4576605628153194874-3599421274041901139?l=norahhernandez.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/feeds/3599421274041901139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4576605628153194874&amp;postID=3599421274041901139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/3599421274041901139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/3599421274041901139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/2008/06/darle-vida-esa-imagen-retomndola-de-su.html' title=''/><author><name>Brenda Torres-Figueroa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14332459953646972790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576605628153194874.post-5758613777255279689</id><published>2008-06-08T15:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T15:46:30.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Exhibitions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Solo Shows &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2007 ¨ Parchos por la Paz¨, Museo de las Americas, San Juan, PR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2006   ¨Mapa de la Humanidad¨, Sin Titulo Gallery, San Juan, PR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2005   ¨Presencia/Ausencia, Sin Titulo Gallery, San Juan, PR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2003   “Balancing Act”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Selected Group Shows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2004      Neográfica, Sin Titulo Contemporary Art Gallery, San Juan PR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2003       Muestra Nacional, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2001    “Black Madonna”, USF, San Francisco, CA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2001    “Peace”, War Memorial Museum, Seoul, South Korea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2001    “Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture”, Santa Clara Civic Center, California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2000    “Landscapes”, UNESCO  Monaco, France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;2000    “Human Evolution”, World Trade Building, Osaka, Japan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1999     “Pop Art” juried exhibition, Museo de las Americas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1999    “Casa de Espanto”, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1999     “Concepts” Space 747,San Francisco, CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1999    “Materia Prima”, Sin Titulo Galeria, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1998    “California Landscapes:  An Urban/Rural Dialogue”, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1996-97     “Selections” juried exhibition, Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco, California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1995    “Grito Visual”, Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1995    “Fire Clay”, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1995    “Annual Latino Women’s Exhibition”, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Independent study with master painter and teacher Elaine Badgley Arnoux; 1998 - present,  San Francisco, CA and on-site in Sonoma, California  as well as  Taos, New Mexico and   Brittany, France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Monoprint workshops with Master Printer Kurt Kemp, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, 1996 - 2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;SOMA School of Art, San Francisco, 1991 – 1994.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;KGO Television ABC, “ArtSpan” , 1998&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“Concepts’ at Space 743”, Artweek, July/August, 1999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“California Dreaming”, Metro, March 12-18, 1998&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Awards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico Grant for representation at the World Trade Building,  Osaka, Japan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Associations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ArtSpan, San Francisco, California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Global Culture Center, Japan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Comite National Monegasque de l’Association  Internacionale des arts plastiques de l’ U.N.E.S.C.O., Monaco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;O.P.A.R.T., Organization of Puertorican Artists, New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Women Caucus for the Arts, New York, New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4576605628153194874-5758613777255279689?l=norahhernandez.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/feeds/5758613777255279689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4576605628153194874&amp;postID=5758613777255279689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/5758613777255279689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4576605628153194874/posts/default/5758613777255279689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norahhernandez.blogspot.com/2008/06/exhibitions-solo-shows-2007-parchos-por.html' title=''/><author><name>Brenda Torres-Figueroa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14332459953646972790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
