La artista dominicana Scherezade García ha sido invitada por la prestigiosa Columbia University para realizar un mural en el lobby del Miller Theatre de su serie “In Transit/Liquid Highway”( La autopista líquida) referente al tema de la migración, un tema que apasiona a la artista. La pieza que será inaugurada el próximo 15 de septiembre trata de comunicar el drama de la migración y el papel que juega el mar en la travesía de quienes se arriesgan buscar una mejor vida, a pesar del peligro que implican los viajes a otras tierras.

Nuestra visita coincidió con la de varios artistas egresados de la escuela de arte de Altos de Chavón, quienes pasaron por el Lobby del Miller Theatre de Columbia para dar apoyo a la artista en medio de su labor, así como con la del galerista Lyle O’ Reitzel, quien por varios años ha representado a la artista.

El objetivo de estos vídeos que realizamos, es la documentación del trabajo de esta talentosa artista dominicana residente en Nueva York mientras realizaba este importante trabajo.

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Scherezade Garcia

IN TRANSIT/LIQUID HIGHWAY

In collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator

Scherezade Garcia creates contemporary allegories of history, politics, and colonization, which take shape in vivid colors and energetic, dream-like combinations. Born in the Dominican Republic, Scherezade’s work takes a wide breadth of forms—from drawings and paintings to art installations using life jackets, inner tubes, and mattresses. “The form of things, the harmony, the composition and the beauty of things are very important to me,” she said. “But the systems behind it, the meaning, the complexity of my voice has to be there.” Scherezade’s site-specific work in the Miller Lobby will be the third piece created for the space, produced in collaboration with the Wallach Art Gallery on campus.

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Scherezade Garcia was born in the Dominican Republic and has lived in New York since she arrived in 1986 to attend Parsons The New School for Design on a full, merit scholarship. She received her AAS from the Altos de Chavon School of Design (an affiliate of Parsons) in La Romana, Dominican Republic; her BFA from Parsons The New School for Design, NYC; and her MFA from The City College of New York. Garcia is currently a faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design.

Her work frequently evokes memories of a faraway home and the hopes and dreams that nurture the roots planted in a new land. Garcia’s work is represented in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington, DC); El Museo del Barrio (NYC); The Housatonic Museum of Art (CT); and El Museo de Arte Moderno (Santo Domingo, DR).

Garcia has exhibited at institutions across the tri-state area, including Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, El Museo del Barrio and The Nathan Cummings Foundation (Manhattan); BRIC and Long Island University (Brooklyn); Lehman College Art Gallery (the Bronx); and Governors Island; as well as Jersey City Museum and Newark Museum of Art (NJ); The Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington DC); and El Museo de Arte Moderno (Santo Domingo). Her work has been included in the Havana Biennale, Cuba and the Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo, and she is represented by Lyle Reitzel Art Gallery in Santo Domingo, DR. Scherezade Garcia’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Nexus, and El Diario NY, among others.