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Judithe Hernández, Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival
Exhibition
Judithe Hernández. Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival
3 Feb 2024 – 4 Aug 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Address
- 3425 Mission Inn Ave.
- Riverside
California - 92501
- United States
River Side Art Museum presents "Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival" by Judithe Hernández.
About
Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival spans over 50 years of this groundbreaking artist’s career. It is the first major retrospective of her work, which centers the realities and mythologies of Mexican migrant women, exploring the legacies of colonization and the US Mexico border and their impact on women and children.This exhibition features over 100 works from her Adam & Eve; Juárez, México; and Colonization series. It also includes a video chronicling the artist’s early career in muralism and her critical conceptual contributions as the first featured cover artist of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Slated for release this fall, the illustrated catalog features essays by Judithe Hernández; Maria Esther Fernández of The Cheech; Charlene Villaseñor Black, Ph.D., UCLA; Valerie Taylor, Ph.D.; Adela Tapia; and Ariel Xochitl Hernández, MA.
In 1980, Hernández decided to work as an independent and individual artist, inventing a visual vocabulary inspired by her cultural background, worries and sexual identity. In 1983, she was one of the first Chicana artists to have a solo exhibition outside the Western United States at New York’s City Cayman Gallery. She subsequently went on to have a significant international career. Hernández’s work was included in the first groundbreaking exhibition of Chicano art in Europe, Les Démons des Anges, where she was one of only three women featured.
After more than 40 years, Hernández’s artistic presence returned to downtown Los Angeles in 2019 when her seven-story mural La Nueva Reina de Los Ángeles was installed at La Plaza Village one block north of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument District.
