Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment Beyond Exile
This guide was created as a partnership between the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Fairfield University Art Museum and provides additional resources and information on the artist and themes related to the Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition:
Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment
Beyond Exile
September 23 - December 17, 2022
Fairfield University Art Museum
Walsh Gallery
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/gladystriana/
Exhibition Description
Gladys Triana is a Cuban-born, New York-based, multi-disciplinary artist whose work rebels against authoritarian rule and the oppression of hegemonies. For decades her immersive installations, sculptures, drawings, and paintings reflected two axes around which her life turned and her art was nourished: her condition of having lived since 1969 in exile from her native island, and her stubborn, continuous exploration of the ontology of women. Her more recent videos and photographs reveal her discovery of an abstract language for transcendence. This exhibition in two venues, running simultaneously at Fairfield University Art Museum, and the Art Museum, University of St. Joseph, includes works from the 1970s to the present.
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos)
Translations by Adriana Herrera, PhD
Faculty liaison: Silvia Marsans-Sakly, PhD
About Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM)
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Image:
Gladys Triana
Nothing is Sacred
1995, Mixed media
Image courtesy of the artist. © Gladys Triana
